Facebook versus Twitter: Which is Better for Your Business? – MarketingVOX

There is little doubt that social media can help even the tinniest business. One only has to look towards the mobile food trucks and carts that have attracted a following on such platforms as Facebook and Twitter. “I’m certainly not getting rich, by any stretch of the imagination, but the use of Twitter allows me to have more of an on-demand business,” says Curtis Kimball, who is known throughout San Francisco as Creme Brulee Man. (via San Francisco Chronicle).

Twitter exceeds 800 million search queries per day – FierceMobileContent

Twitter now averages more than 800 million search queries per day, translating to over 24 billion per month–far behind Google (88 billion searches per month) but far ahead of Yahoo (9.4 billion) and Microsoft’s Bing (4.1 billion). Speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the microblogging giant’s co-founder Biz Stone said Twitter search queries have increased 33 percent since April. At last month’s World Innovation Forum, Stone argued that despite public perception, Twitter is “not a social network,” adding “That’s been a myth since the beginning. We’re much more like an information network or a source of news.”

Microblogging service Twitter announced that it now boasts close to 106 million registered users–up more than 1,500 percent over a year ago–and continues to add 300,000 new users each day. Speaking at the company’s first Chirp developer conference in San Francisco, Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone added that Twitter now fields 55 million tweets and 600 million search queries per day. Despite the popularity of the service, Williams said the firm is still seeking ways to make Twitter more mainstream, adding that when consumers begin to type “I don’t get…” into Google search, “I don’t get Twitter” is the second suggestion, followed only by “I don’t get drunk I get awesome.”

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