According to a report from BIA/Kelsey, a consulting and media research business, ad revenue from Social media will increase to 11 billion dollars by the year 2017. That represents a 134 percent increase from 2012, which saw social media ad revenues amounting to 4.7 billion dollars. Consequently, that means that every year from now on until 2017, ad revenue for social media will increase by 18.6

Twitter is launching its very own Twitter #music app. On Friday, Twitter set up a page with the address music.twitter.com.
Displayed on the page are the Twitter bird – whose name is Larry the Bird, in case you did not know – and the hashtag #music.
The page says “coming soon” along with a sign in button that let’s Twitter users authorize the “Twitter #music web” app.

For now, the app is asking permission to “Read Tweets from your timeline,” “See who you follow, and …

It turns out social media has such a strong draw that some people are even sacrificing sex to get their daily dose of being on social networks.
That’s according to this infographic, based on data from the U.K, by Browser Media.
How many people are sacrificing sex just to be on social media? Browser Media says that 8 percent do.
Another revelation that the study and infographic offers is that women spending more time on social media than men. Women spend an average of 60 minutes on these sites …

A study was conducted by University of Winchester researchers involving ten Facebook and ten Twitter addicts. These self-confessed addicts were asked to stop using their Facebook or Twitter accounts for one full

According to a research conducted by Pipar Jaffray, an asset management and investment bank firm, Facebook is still the top social media site among teenagers, but its popularity is declining. This is consistent with several other reports which reveal that Facebook has a “teenager

A study reveals that extensive use of chatting, texting and social networking sites using mobile devices can lead to poorer performance in school and lower grades among

Facebook has a new targeted advertising program which sends out targeted ads to users based on their purchases. Previously, these Facebook ads were just based on the interests of the users as they expressed it on the social networking

According to a survey, conducted by VitalSmarts, and that which saw participation among 2,698 respondents, most online friendships are cut short due to users being disrespectful and saying offensive things to others. The survey also showed that 40 percent of users decided to end even their offline relationships after the virtual

University of Maryland’s SGA, or Student Government Association, is listening to students’ concerns using social media through what they called the “WTF” campaign, the initials standing for “what to fix.” WTF UMD can be accessed through Facebook or Twitter

Facebook Home may be focused more on new users overseas. That is because in the U.S., smart phone users are already bombarded with