Twitter: 5 billion tweets

October 20th, 2009

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Twitter has begun to gain its popularity in Malaysia since last year. Twitter passed the one billion tweet mark back in November of last year.  Up to date, number of tweet has quintupled in less than 1 year time. According to Gigatweet, Twitter has now passed the 5 billion tweet mark.

Have you managed to tweet any of the 5 billion? Do you tweet at all? We do!

Ong Tee Keat with Social Media

October 16th, 2009

Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat, President of Malaysia Chinese Association did a good work again. Not because of he remains his seat as the President of the Party after 10/10 EGM, but it is because he starts to fully apply social media marketing to create Online Branding! It is the way to create an online presence!

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Facebooking during office hours

October 14th, 2009

What is the first thing you do once you reach your office? Fat chance, most of us will log in to Facebook to check the latest updates of our friends. What if one day, when you tried to log in to your Facebook and is greeted by the message “This site is prohibited” message? It turned out that your company has restricted the access to social networking sites. The increasing of Facebook phenomenon is raising employer concern with the worry that employees will waste time on Facebook for personal networking.

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To listen or not to listen?

September 17th, 2009

While I was travelling to work this morning, a local radio station was broadcasting on a discussion about a popular social networking site – Facebook. Listeners called in and shared about their experience using Facebook. Nothing very interesting – I am also a Facebook addict. However, one listener caught my attention.  She was saying that her “aunties” colleagues are also addicted to Facebook, and log in to “plant plantations everyday”. “Aunties”, according to her, referred to “women in their 40s”. Members of Generation X? Where the generation gap has gone to?!

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The ’social’ factor of social networking

September 15th, 2009

All of us have come across the term “social networking” more than once. It is a generic name for the totally familiar websites to us; such as Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Hi5, Linkedin, Multiply, MySpace, Plurk, Twitter and the list goes on and on. Social networking defined by Whatissocialnetworking.com as ‘the grouping of individuals into specific groups’. Social networking seems to be new phenomenon for us, but in actual fact, it is not!

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