Category Archives: Social Media

Social networking abroad with Tuenti

By Tom | Published: November 9, 2009
Chances are you have never heard of Tuenti. I hadn’t either until I arrived in Spain. Tuenti is the primary social network for college-aged people. It has a lot of similarities to Facebook — but I definitely feel that Tuenti is it’s very-own beast. (For those interested, here are some social networks that are international clones [...]
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The real You with Facebook Connect

By Tom Buchok | Published: July 7, 2009
I am continually impressed and encouraged with how Facebook Connect is bringing real people to the web. Unlike virtually every other service out there — including Twitter — users make up identities and act under this pseudonym. It’s not the worst thing in the world, but social norms are definitely lowered when I can be sk8erboi28 [...]
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Twitter data suggests older demographic? Nope.

By Tom Buchok | Published: April 16, 2009
 I’ve been sent a few articles recently proclaiming the prevalence of the 35+ crowd on Twitter.  Here are some links for background information: Twitter older than it looks — Reuters Twitter traffic explodes … and not by the usual suspects — comScore And here’s a graph that’s handy for discussion: There is absolutely no doubt that Twitter is exploding [...]
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