People who have been managing social media accounts either for personal use or for business use may have noticed that their fans on social media roughly fall into clear categories.
According to this infographic, there are seven popular types of social media fans and each type can benefit the owners of the social media accounts they follow.
The infographic, made by ReachLocal.com, also teaches social media users how to benefit from each of the seven types of fans discussed.
Here are the seven …

Social media is so pervasive it is no wonder airlines and airports in the U.S. can be analyzed through it.
So which American commercial airlines and airports are doing great on social media?
According to this infographic from ViralHeat, the most social savvy airports are San Francisco International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
The ranking for airports was …

The seemingly simple inclusion of an exclamation point in a tweet boosts its chances of getting retweets, new data shows.
The data comes from Dan Zarella, a social media expert, in an article on his site.
According to Zarella, he was prompted to look in to “the relationship between exclamation points in tweets and retweets and clicks” by a question from one of his followers which was aptly-sent through a tweet.
Zarella says that he used a dataset of over 2 million link-containing tweets …

Apple has announced that its App Store has surpassed 50 billion downloads.
In a tweet on Wednesday, Apple said “We just hit 50 billion app downloads. Thank you. It couldn’t have happened without you. #50BillionApps” along with a link to the App Store.
We just hit 50 billion app downloads. Thank you. It couldn’t have happened without you. #50BillionApps tw.appstore.com/hgE
— App Store(@AppStore) May 15, 2013

Along with the milestone, one lucky person has just won a $10,000 …

A bidder has won an hour-long coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook to the tune of $610,000.
The auction was organized by CharityBuzz and the proceeds of the auction will go to the RFK Center for Justice and human Rights.
The bidder, along with a companion if he or she gets invited by the winning bidder, will have a 30-minute to 1-hour coffee date with Cook at Apple’s Cupertino, California campus talking about anything.
The bidder has a year to come up with a time that is mutually agreed upon …

Android purists are rejoicing after Google unveiled a version of the Samsung Galaxy S4 superphone running on vanilla Android 4.2.2.
The announcement was made by Google at its ongoing Google I/O 2013 event where it showed off the pure Android Galaxy S4 version.
According to Google, the vanilla Galaxy S4 will be available starting June 26 and will run on stock Android 4.2.2.
This means the phone will get updated to the newest Android release as soon as possible and will not be featuring the …

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Fast & Furious star Vin Diesel joked that Facebook owed him billions of dollars.
However, apart from making people laugh at the joke, the Hollywood superstar actually offers a valuable lesson to Facebook Page owners about how they can get more likes.
In the interview, Vin Diesel shares how he was once the owner of the world’s most popular Facebook Page.
When asked what he attributes his massive following on Facebook to, Diesel asked …

Facebook General Counsel Ted Ullyot will be leaving the world’s largest social networking site.
Facebook revealed that Ullyot, 45, will be departing Facebook in July.
“Ted has been a valued member of Facebook’s leadership who built our legal team through an intense 5-year period in which we faced complex and high-stakes legal issues of all types. We wish him the best of luck in the future,” Facebook said in a statement sent to the media.
The Harvard University graduate joined …

LTE may still not be fully implemented around the world but Samsung Electronics is already hard at work developing 5G technology which will make 4G speeds look like GPRS speeds in the future.
Samsung revealed on Sunday that it has “successfully developed a core technology of fifth-generation network (5G),” Korean publication Yonhap reports.
How much faster is 5G compared to 4G LTE? Samsung said that when 5G is implemented, people can download a full-length movie via their mobile device in …

There is nothing sweeter in the eyes of a digital marketer who is using Twitter than to see that their tweets have a lot of retweets.
So how does a marketer increase retweets?
Social media scientist Dan Zarella shares five scientifically proven ways to get more retweets.
He says that through the years, he has done a “tone of research on retweets” and so has decided to share five specific points that are the most powerful ways to get more retweets.
The first way is to include links in your …