The following infographic provides some really interesting statistics for the worlds largest social networks including demographic breakdowns, useful data and tips.

Infographic published on Mashable

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As of yesterday, businesses can pay to access all tweets written since January 2010.

Twitter has signed a deal with DataSift, who will be offering its clients the opportunity to browse a marketing goldmine.

“The sheer volume of data being produced by Twitter represents a huge challenge for companies trying to extract insights from past events,” says DataSift CEO Rob Bailey.

Privacy campaigners have condemned the move, as concerns rise about the way social media companies handle the data they collect.

Google, who are well known for their Google Doodles and Eater Eggs related to the holidays weren’t outdone today with the equation below.

sqrt(cos(x))*cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)*(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5

Seems like a very random algebraic equation doesn’t it?

Well try typing this equation into Google for a special Valentine’s Day Easter Egg!

Whilst you’re on Google why not try ‘askew‘ and ‘do a barrel roll‘ too?

Unsurprisingly Twitter has seen a huge number of Valentine’s Day related tweets. Though one anti-Valentine’s Day trend simply called ‘Tomorrow is Tuesday’ has been making the rounds on the site there are still a lot of positive Valentine’s Day related tweets.

There is a definite split when it comes to Valentine’s Day related tweets, particularly the positive ones!

For the full article on Google Easter Eggs click here > >

For the full article on Valentine’s Day Twitter Trends click here > >

Source  – Mashable

Clicky Media™ would like to congratulate the Winner of our Competwition Roxanna Bridger, @Roxi_Lovely! From the 997 twitter users who entered our competition, Roxanne was the lucky winner of a brand new iPod Touch.

We decided to offer our clients and followers the chance to win an iPod Touch for Christmas. This year we’ve helped all kinds of clients to grow their businesses on the internet, from local government to multi-national brands, we provide a wide range of digital marketing services with a complete focus on delivering results.

We wanted to wish all our valued clients & followers a very merry Christmas with this exciting competition.

For information on how we can help you’re business’s twitter account with a competition click here > >

The launch of Twitter Brand Pages coincides with a site-wide redesign and restructuring of the micro-blogging site and will enable additional features and functionality to company presences. According to reports, brands will be able to customise their profile header and improve the overall look and feel as well as highlighting their best content. Reports also suggest the ability to select a tweet to stay at the top of their page, with that tweet automatically expanding — even without a visitor clicking — to display a photo or video. Additionally, brands will be able to separate their @ replies and mentions.

Users and brands have been awaiting in anticipation for the launch of a more business orientated destination for users of Twitter, particularly since the improvement of Facebook Pages and the launch of Google+ Business Pages over recent months. Rumours began in April that the product was to be developed and launched in 2011.

Before we all get too excited though, Twitter has carefully selected a number of launch partners who are currently advertising on Twitter. Launch partners for the pages include Coca-Cola (in the example shown below), Dell, Disney, Hewlitt-Packard, McDonald’s, Nike, PepsiCo, Heineken, Subway and Paramount Pictures (specifically for the release of Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol).

It may be the case that the next roll out of Brand Pages are exclusive to high spending advertisers before this is available to the average Twitter user. In any case it is a proactive step forward from the social network giving brands a home and differentiating brand accounts from personal users.

To date most major brands have a presence on both Facebook and Twitter, but until this announcement, a brand’s Twitter page was more a place to push content to their followers’ streams and respond to customer service enquiries and was not a standalone destination in itself.

Watch this space for the latest updates…

Sources: Mashable and AdAge

We are thrilled to be one of the first to offer the newly available Twitter Advertising. The new advertising has three levels available, Promoted Tweets, Promoted Trends and Promoted Accounts. Whatever your targets, we can tailor a package specifically for you.

Promoted Tweets are similar to regular tweets, however the potential reach is much further and can be targeted more specifically at your target market. We even run a Cost-Per-Engagement service with which you only pay when someone ‘retweets’, clicks, replies to or ‘favourites’ your Promoted Tweet. For more details click the link at the bottom of this blog.

Promoted Trends can push your brand or product toward one of those key top ten trend spots to dramatically increase the tweets exposure.

Promoted Accounts now allows your account to be promoted in the ‘who to follow’ section for users who are likely to have interests similar to your account.

For more information about our new Twitter Advertising and what we can offer your company click here>> for our website or give us a call on 01244 352 913

JD Parties offer spectacular Christmas parties with incredible West End star entertainment, opulent surroundings, sumptuous food and a festive atmosphere that gets everybody dancing the night away! The phenomenon of a Christmas party is, and has always been, a social affair. So in this new digital age, where “social” is now also very much online, JD Parties have an entirely new dimension to their festive extravaganzas.

At the beginning of the year we at Clicky media who thoroughly enjoy continuing to work with JD Parties, built them an entire new set of stunning social media presences for their 2011 themed parties. Now that we’re getting even closer to the Christmas season, we’ve stepped it up even further, with two amazing social media based competitions; a Facebook competition and a Twitter competition: a Competwition (seriously, that’s what it’s called and we love it!) .

The competitions offer a prize of a fantastic VIP Christmas party worth over £750. It’s a brilliant prize so it’s no wonder the competitions have already attracted a huge amount of attention, the great thing about Twitter and Facebook of course though is that the enthusiasm for the competitions can, and already is, spreading virally. The competitions are trending well and are also hugely helping to build JD Parties’ following on Facebook and Twitter. It’s a really exciting time for JD Parties and these competitions are certainly helping to build that buzz!

To see the competitions (and of course enter to try to win this amazing VIP Christmas party) click below:

JD Parties Facebook competition >> click here

JD Parties Twitter competition >> click here

Want to find out more about doing a social competition for your brand or organisation? Get in touch with us via the website or by calling 0845 257 1225 for a friendly chat.

Twitter competitions are an excellent way to engage your current Twitter followers in a fun and exciting way, as well as rapidly growing your Twitter following. Your competition (and awareness of your brand) will be spread virally, reaching potential new customers, making them aware of your business. It can also potentially help with your SEO rankings, as Google is now taking into account the amount of noise made about brands on social networks.

Twitter competitions are a brand new phenomenon, so running one would put your brand at the very forefront of something new and exciting, so it’s bound to achieve a great level of interest and exposure. Why not find out a bit more about our Twitter competition service? Click here for more info…

The iPad is something that has created an enormous amount of intrigue and discussion in both businesses and the general public. The revolutionary new device has been extraordinarily popular with more people than ever now owning one. So obviously it wasn’t going to be long before they became a powerful marketing tool as well. That time is now here and we are proud to announce we can offer both display and search advertising specifically for iPad and other tablets.

iPad users browse the internet & search to find products and services in a way that mirrors laptop & desktop users. As such, iPad search ads appear virtually the same as on a desktop computer. However, display ads can appear as magazine-style full-page with high quality images, or in an animation or video format.

Whether your ads are targeted contextually, are related to users interests or are targeted to previous visitors of your site, iPad advertising is an extremely effective way to get your business’ message straight to the hands of a user – literally! In addition, iPad ads are also a great way to promote iPad apps and drive traffic to them directly.

So, have you got an iPad? Use it a lot? Well so do millions of other people; the time is ripe to promote your business on the nation’s iPads. Get in touch with us today and find out more about iPad & tablet advertising.

Click here to find out more about iPad & Tablet advertising >>

Click here to learn more about Twitter competitions >>

Or just get in touch with us! We love talking bout iPad advertising and Twitter competitions, so let’s have a chat. Call us now on 0845 257 1225. Or alternatively get in touch via the website… click here >>

As ever, Bieber-fever is never far behind and he ranked in second this week following a new single release. In third place was Facebook with social media buzzing with interest around the new mobile messaging application. The rest of the top 10 can be seen below:

Source & Image: Mashable

The Institute of Business and Management (IBAM) offers students from the UK and across Europe the opportunity to study a UK university degree in the heart of London.

September degree places in London are still available. To promote this and to encourage new students, Clicky Media™ have designed two fabulous competitions.

The first competition has been built within the IBAM Facebook page (see image below). The task involves posting a photograph that represents your career dreams and describe why. Users of Facebook then vote on the entries & the one with the most votes at the closing date wins an iPad 2. Click here to enter >>

The second competition has been entered onto a new and exciting platform – ‘Competwition’. To enter the competition, users must tweet an automated message promoting IBAM to his or her followers. The winning tweeter wins an Acer Aspire One Netbook! Click here to enter >>

If you’re interested in promoting your services through competitions, get ahead of the game & update your Social Media presence today! Find out more >>