Social Media

Facebook has gone far beyond the quirky college start-up it once was, with revenue around $800 million last year and profit in the tens of millions, according to a Reuters report. But it could do a lot better, and make its critics far more comfortable, through optional premium memberships like Linkedin Business Model.

Professional social network LinkedIn now has 70 million members, according to the company’s home page. The company hit 60 million users in February, and has been growing fast, especially in international markets. LinkedIn’s network’s CEO, Jeff Weiner, stated in a blog post last fall that half of LinkedIn’s membership is international.

AOL has sold its social networking site Bebo to US-based merchant banking and financial advisory firm, Criterion Capital Partners. The deal was reportedly closed for less than $10 million. AOL had acquired Bebo by paying $850 million in March 2008. with tough market competition from frindster & Facebook, which over run Bebo made AOL to accept the loss of allmost 85%.

Which kind of Internet user are you: The kind who prefers email and just-the-facts interactions with companies, or the social media-happy brand fan? Or do you find yourself somewhere in between? Do you overcome of the habit of social networking at office place or you are the one who want to join the virtual world first ?

You might want to start thinking about that because starting Monday, an advertising recruiter named David Perez will do whatever his Twitter followers tell him to do for one week reported by CNN. There's only one catch to what Perez is calling David On Demand: it must be legal.

Twitter’s been having a rough month keeping the service stable, and the micro-blogging service is willing to admit it. For the last few weeks, Twitter has been experiencing constant errors, fail whales and downtime, culminating in yesterday’s extended downtime and today’s high error rate.

After months of rumors and hinting, Twitter is ready to unveil its new and major foray into the world of geolocation: Twitter Places. This feature will highlight tweets around a given location. Starting now, Twitter.com desktop and mobile users can tag their tweets with existing Twitter Places and add new Twitter Places, too.

Remember the Executive Sales, Business Development - Corporate, B.D. - Retail, B.D. - Healthcare positions....Now it's "Twitter Executive". Corporate world is getting bugged with the new position which is taking place these days known as Twitter Executive or a position related to Twitter.

The "halal" version of Facebook launched by Pakistanis last month after a ban was imposed on the social networking website for featuring blasphemous caricatures is going strong with 333,000 users having signed up at the last count. Millatfacebook.com, or "MFB" for short, was launched by six tech-savvy Pakistanis following a furore over the caricatures of Prophet Mohammed on Facebook.

To get in touch with others, we simply signup to any one or multiple social networking sites like Facebook.com, Bigadda.com or Twitter.com. Infact the process of signup is so simple now that just by providing an email address and name we can be a member of any professional or personal networking website.....Here it comes a big question : How many people ever tried to delete their account from these social networking website ?