A recent survey of around 4,000 business owners has shown that around 41% of businesses use social media to win new business – up 8% from last years figures. The findings from the survey have shown that social media has evolved into an essential marketing tool for a lot of businesses, with 66% saying their [...]

It’s one of those things that in truth, you probably thought already existed, but, Twitter have finally made it possible for users to follow a Twitter account with 1 simple click. Up until now, it is possible for a business or blogger to place a link to their twitter page on their website, however anyone [...]

Intense speculation is circulating that social networking and micro blogging site twitter have completed the purchase of the adobe air application TweetDeck for around an astonishing $40million (£25million). The application splits Twitter into several different panels, so users can have an overview of different aspects such as direct messages, tweets from friends, and mentions among [...]

Twitters decision to open an office in the UK could leave it vulnerable to prosecution over what its users write, according to top lawyers. The micro-blogging social networking site – which is thought to have over 200million users – has been at the centre of controversy with the high court in regards to the use [...]

SEO guru and head of Google’s webspam team Matt Cutts has confirmed that shortened URL’s – very popular in the social media world – will not have any negative effects on SEO and anchor text links. On a Google video, Cutts explained that most shortened url’s work just like regular 301 redirects – where the [...]