Mar
05

Anna’s Social Media Picks of the Week (03/05/10)

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Do you have time to search the web everyday to find the newest and coolest social media tools? If the answer is no, then you have come to the right place. (& if the answer is yes, leave a comment with your favorites). I have searched the World Wide Web for social media information all week, and stumbled upon a few favorites along the way.

Here are my picks of the week:

10 Billion Tweets:

Late Thursday night, Twitter hit, and has now surpassed, 10 billion tweets. That’s a lot of Tweets. Other milestones: Twitter broke 1 billion Tweets in November 2008 and 5 billion Tweets just four months ago.

Social Media In Dollars & Cents:

Staying on the topic of billions, my second pick of the week is how much different social media networks are worth. According to SharesPost, Facebook is worth $11.5 billion, Twitter is worth $1.4 billion, and LinkedIn is worth $1.3 billion.

YouTube Captions:

YouTube automatic captions are now available on ALL English language videos. Google’s translation technology also makes it possible to translate captions into over 50 different languages. Google noted that there will be over 700 million people who will suffer from hearing impairment by 2015, so this will be a great tool to help address those needs.

ShareThis Gets More Social:

Share buttons are getting more social. This week, one of the largest sharing button networks, ShareThis, has introduced Share Stream, a site that shows you what your Facebook friends are sharing across the web. Soon, your Twitter followers will be included in this new share stream as well.

Facebook: Larger Photos:

Facebook has officially launched resized photos. Facebook has increased photo image size by almost 20%, giving users a higher quality photo. As AllFacebook mentioned, “While on the surface this isn’t a big deal, Facebook runs the largest online photo storage product which means this is a relatively substantial technical feat.”

-Anna (@alucas9)

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