Just 6 weeks after Twitter came out with a new version for “right-to-left languages,” the micro-blogging site has now added language support for Hebrew, as well as for Arabic, Farsi and Urdu. Twitter currently has around 500 million users, and offers its services in 28 different languages. Tweeting was already possible in Hebrew, but now Hebrew menus have been added.
Social Media Insight from 6 Successful Brands on Google+
A dominantly male platform, almost 70 percent, Google+ is slowly but surely attracting a more diverse user base. Big brands are taking notice and many have fully integrated the platform into their social media strategies for 2012. Is Google+ a part of your 2012 social media strategy? It should be! Let’s examine a few of … Read more
Survey Predicts Google+ Will Pass Twitter, LinkedIn in 2012
Just a month after the launch of Google+, the social site has gained immense momentum. A survey from YouGov shows that Google+ is likely to be the second most popular U.S. social network by the mid-2012 YouGov used a sample of 1,003 U.S. residents that comprised a representative selection of U.S. Internet users. They were … Read more
Google +1 Button on More Homepages than Tweet Button
A study from BrightEdge examining the prevalence of social plugins on the home pages of major sites shows that Facebook is still the most dominant social button on the web. Google +1, however, is growing quickly, having seen a 28 percent increase in adoption over the last month. Since figures were tallied in June, Google … Read more
Google Plus One Widget for WordPress
Google Plus One Widget is a WordPress plugin by karolsojko that Adds the new Google “+1″ button on single posts pages, page type pages and homepage under post titles. Google +1 is a social feature for Google’s search service adding a one-click button to allow users to recommend sites and share those recommendations with their … Read more
Spammer and Google +1 Button
As it is very likely that spammers will try to use the +1 button, Google will perform tests before the +1 button has a major influence on the search results. The +1 button will be shown in both natural and paid for search results so will it effect PPC and will it be easy pickings … Read more
Google +1 button will influence search rankings
Here is the exact quote from Google’s David Byttow, from when the feature was first announced: “We’ll also start to look at +1’s as one of the many signals we use to determine a page’s relevance and ranking, including social signals from other services. For +1′s, as with any new ranking signal, we’ll be starting … Read more