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	<title>Social Media at Work</title>
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		<title>4% of Tweets Include Product Recommendations or Complaints</title>
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Semantic search company TextWise used their Semantic Signatures technology to analyze the content of Twitter messages.  They used the streaming API to download a sampling of 8.9 million tweets posted by 2.6 million unique users.
They found that 2.7 million of these tweets, or 31%, were replies to a tweet posted by another user, half a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/19/4-of-tweets-include-product-recommendations-or-complaints/</link>
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		<title>Average Social Network User is 37 Years Old</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Royal Pingdom has used Google Adplanner U.S. data for 19 different social network sites, and analyzed the data for age demographics.  The analysis showed that the average social network user is 37 years old.  LinkedIn has the highest average user age of 44, while Bebo has the youngest, 28.  The majority of 64% of Twitter users and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/18/average-social-network-user-is-37-years-old/</link>
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		<title>Tweets Prove Big Bucks for Conan O&#8217;Brien</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All it took for Conan O’Brien to virtually sell out his upcoming nationwide comedy tour was a couple of Tweets. His team sent out Tweets about the tour to his more than 600,000 Twitter followers, telling them he was headed to their town and directing them to TeamCoco.com, which listed the venues and  tour dates.
According [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/17/tweets-prove-big-bucks-for-conan-obrien/</link>
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		<title>Facebook Passes Google As Most-Visited Website in US in Week Ending Mar 13, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hitwise reports that, for the week ending March 13, 2010, Facebook passed Google to become the most visited website for the week in the U.S.  Facebook.com had previously reached the #1 ranking on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day, as well as the weekend of March 6th and 7th, but this is the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/16/facebook-passes-google-as-most-visited-website-in-us-in-week-ending-mar-13-2010/</link>
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		<title>Foursquare Celebrates Birthday With Record Check-ins; Hitwise Releases More Growth Stats</title>
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On March 11, Foursquare announced the largest number of check-ins in one day, with a record 275,000 individual check-ins.  On March 13, with SuperSwarms of Foursquare users congregating in Austin for SXSW, the service announced 347,000 check-ins in one day.
Experian Hitwise has released an analysis of Foursquare’s growth to mark the service&#8217;s one-year anniversary.  According [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/15/foursquare-celebrates-birthday-with-record-number-of-check-ins-hitwise-releases-more-growth-stats/</link>
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		<title>JetBlue&#8217;s Twitter Promotion Takes Wing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JetBlue Airways has 1.6 million followers on Twitter and it must have seemed like every single one one of them was on the streets of New York this past Wednesday when the low-fare airline tweeted about a giveaway of 1,000 free roundtrip tickets anywhere it flies to celebrate its 10th birthday.
Besides rushing to the right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/12/jetblues-twitter-promotion-takes-wing/</link>
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		<title>79% of Twitter Users Are More Likely to Buy Brands They Follow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A February 2010 study of over 1500 consumers by market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey and iModerate Research Technologies found that 60% of Facebook fans and 79% of Twitter followers are more likely to recommend brands since becoming a fan or follower of those brands.
51% of Facebook fans and 67% of Twitter followers are more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/11/79-of-twitter-users-are-more-likely-to-buy-brands-they-follow/</link>
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		<title>73% of Twitter Accounts Have Tweeted Fewer Than 10 Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a report from Barracuda Networks, a Web security company,  most of Twitter&#8217;s 50 million accounts merely follow other users rather than posting their own messages.  73% of Twitter accounts have tweeted fewer than 10 times .  As of December 2009, only 21% of Twitter account holders were what Barracuda defines as &#8220;true users,&#8221; meaning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/11/73-of-twitter-accounts-have-tweeted-fewer-than-10-times/</link>
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		<title>Foursquare U.S. Visits Increase 50% Dec 2009 &#8211; Jan 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hitwise reports that location-based game Foursquare has seen U.S. visits to the site jumped 50% in January.  Traffic is up 200% since November.  Foursquare’s base is estimated to be about 350,000 users.
More at VentureBeat.
UPDATE: More analysis on the growth of Foursquare at ReadWriteWeb.
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		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/10/foursquare-u-s-visits-increase-50-dec-2009-jan-2010/</link>
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		<title>Morton&#8217;s The Steakhouse Serves up Lots of Social Media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Morton&#8217;s The Steakhouse uses Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to spread the word about the restaurant chain and its events and to keep communicating and conversing with its customers. In a wide-ranging interview that appeared in Chain Leader, Roger Drake, the restaurant chain&#8217;s senior vice president of  marketing and communications, talked about some of its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://socialmediaatwork.com/2010/03/10/mortons-the-steakhouse-employs-various-social-media/</link>
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