Why Are Twitter's Revenues So Puny? Time to Grow Up [Forbes]

With all the commotion about Facebook’s (FB) planned IPO filing
tomorrow, you might have missed another study that came out yesterday
from some outfit called eMarketer saying that Twitter’s revenues were
going to “hit” $540 million in 2014. That’s great but that’s 3 years
from now. What did they do in 2011 — when Facebook is reported to
have done $4 billion? According to eMarketer, Twitter did $139.5
million in 2011. With all due respect to Dick Costolo, Twitter’s CEO,
that sucks.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/01/31/why-are-twitters-revenues-...

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Twitter’s Global Expansion Boosts Revenue as It Brings Censorship Hurdles [Bloomberg]

Twitter Inc.’s international expansion may help fuel a threefold gain
in revenue, even as it raises censorship challenges for the
microblogging service. Ad revenue at Twitter is set to rise to $540
million in 2014 from $139.5 million in 2011, according to New
York-based research firm EMarketer Inc. Increasing popularity overseas
will decrease the site’s reliance on U.S. advertisers. The percentage
of dollars coming from the U.S. will fall to 83 percent in 2014 from
about 90 percent this year, EMarketer said.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-31/twitter-ad-sales-to-rise-to-540-mill...

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Most on Inc. 500 prefer Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter to blogging [BizJournals]

Blogging is on the decline while use of Facebook and Twitter is more
common among the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. A study
by the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth found that among
companies that made the Inc. 500 list of rapid growth businesses
blogging declined to 37 percent in 2011 from 50 percent the year
before.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2012/01/30/most-inc-500s-prefer-faceb...

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Under CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter is Growing Up [Wired]

Twitter is serious business. And CEO Dick Costolo wants you to know
it. “We’re in the media business. We’re a distributor of content, and
we’re … one of the largest distributors of traffic,” Costolo said on
stage at the AllThingsD media conference on Monday evening, a forceful
proclamation of company identity, right from the top. “We’re trying to
build a decades-long lasting business.”

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/01/twitter-costolo-allthingsd/

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The rise of in-store mobile commerce; 33% in US use phone in store for online info [PewInternet]

More than half of adult cell phone owners used their cell phones while
they were in a store during the 2011 holiday season to seek help with
purchasing decisions. During a 30 day period before and after
Christmas:

38% of cell owners used their phone to call a friend while they were
in a store for advice about a purchase they were considering making
24% of cell owners used their phone to look up reviews of a product
online while they were in a store
25% of adult cell owners used their phones to look up the price of a
product online while they were in a store, to see if they could get a
better price somewhere else

http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/In-store-mobile-commerce.aspx?utm_source=...

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News International turns to Facebook for Fabulous 'social media magazine' [MediaWeek]

On 1st February, NI launches its Fabulous for Facebook app, which will
distribute original fashion and beauty content on the social
networking site every day. The content will appear in users' timelines
and can be shared with their friends on the social network and
Twitter. The app, created by Jam, includes Fabulous Radio, which
enables users to create and share Spotify playlists and a weather app,
which recommends clothing and accessories, based on weather
conditions.

http://mediaweek.co.uk/channel/NationalPress/article/1114537/News-Internation...

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Bullsh*t.com: How The Dail Mail Won The Web [Anorak]

The Daily Mail online is the most-read news site in the Western world.
The website is the subject of a piece in Esquire. The headline comes
from Dacre’s comment at the Daily Mail summer party at Hampton Court.
Helen Lewis has been picking out the best bits.

http://www.anorak.co.uk/304035/news/bullshit-com-how-the-dail-mail-won-the-we...

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Read Twitter's 'Confidential' Memo To Advertisers On New Enhanced Profile Pages For Brands [BusinessInsider]

With Twitter's launch of new enhanced profile pages for brands
imminent, advertisers might be wondering how to take advantage of the
new tools the microblogger is offering. A Twitter document—stamped
"confidential"—featuring step by step instructions for advertisers who
want to enhance their tweets and utilize the new environment was
leaked yesterday.

http://www.businessinsider.com/read-twitters-confidential-memo-to-advertisers...

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Rupert Murdoch Twitter feed amplifies his influence [TheAustralian]

AFTER passing the milestone of his 100th tweet on the weekend, Rupert
Murdoch has raced to more than 160,000 followers on the social media
network Twitter since he created his account (@rupertmurdoch) at
6.30pm on New Year's Eve. Granted, it's still a modest audience
compared with the one million followers actor Charlie Sheen added in
just 25 hours and 17 minutes last year when he live-tweeted his mental
meltdown, setting a Guinness World Record. "But the people who follow
(Murdoch) include some of the other most influential people on
Twitter," points out Nick Holmes a Court, founder of social media
monitoring site Buzz Numbers.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/murdoch-twitter-feed-amplifies-his-infl...

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Just one in ten Facebook users supports 'timeline' feature [Telegraph]

Critics claim that the change could erode users' privacy but Facebook
insists that it will not make anything publicly available which is not
already viewable. A survey of 4,000 Facebook users by the security
form Sophos found that only eight per cent of those polled said that
they liked the change. By contrast 51 per cent of those who took part
said that they were “worried” by the new format while another eight
per cent said that they would “get used to it”.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/9048034/Just-one-in-ten-Facebo...

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Kindle Fire dwarfs other Android tablets in market share after just three months [ArsTechnica]

The Kindle Fire is crushing standard Android tablets in market share
after only three months, according to data collected by Flurry
Analytics. Measured in application sessions on Android from November
2011 to January 2012, the Kindle Fire went from a 3 percent market
share to 36 percent, while the Samsung Galaxy Tab, a brand that has
been on sale for over two years, dropped from 64 percent market share
to 36 percent.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/kindle-fire-dwarfs-other-android-...

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The Biggest Newspaper In The World Is … The Daily Mail!? [BuzzFeed]

The Daily Mail, an omniverous middle-market British tabloid, has
quietly unseated the New York Times to become the newspaper with the
biggest online reach in the world, according to figures from the
online tracking service comScore. The figures show Mail Online reached
45.3 million people last December, to the Times's 44.8 million.
Trailing them are USA Today at , the Tribune newspapers , and the
Guardian. The growth, the editor and publisher of the Mail's online
properties, Martin Clarke, said, has been driven by U.S. traffic.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/the-biggest-newspaper-in-the-world-i...

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The Washington Times launches new Times247.com site [WashTimes]

The Washington Times has launched a new digital news site,
http://times247.com, which will provide a continuously updated blend
of news, opinion and analysis from The Times combined with
thoughtfully selected content from the nation’s top news sources to an
audience who shares conservative values. The news service will be
distributed digitally to millions of opted-in readers and available
over the Internet on a 24/7 basis. Users can choose the site’s richly
designed home page or “The Skinny” section featuring breaking news
headlines “without the filler.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/24/the-washington-times-launches...

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Report: Online Ads To Beat Print Spend For First Time [Clickz]

EMarketer forecasts online advertising will edge out print in total
spending this year. While it says online dollars have already
outstripped newspapers and magazines separately, today's announcement
by the New York-based researcher marks the first time digital is
projected to surpass the two combined.

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/2140194/report-online-ads-beat-print-spend

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Study: Home Media Landscape Shifting to Digital Content [WorldScreen]

The new study, Connecting the Dots Between Consumers, Content and
Consumer Electronics in the Home, finds that those consumers have a
distinct preference for streaming verses downloaded content. More than
half, 51 percent, view streaming content and spend an average of two
hours per week watching, while only 15 percent download content and
spend an average of one hour watching.

http://www.worldscreen.com/articles/display/2012-1-18-digital-content-study

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What 2012 holds for consumer magazines [MediaLifeMag]

Digital is a very small but growing area for magazines, and buyers are
most excited about the new prospects this area offers as the new year
begins, most notably opportunities for magazines on e-readers. Sales
of tablets soared over the holidays, and Amazon's new low-priced
Kindle Fire has helped open the market up to a new group of
budget-conscious consumers.

http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman2/publish/Magazines_22/What-2012-holds...

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Mail Online Introduces Indian Site [paidContent]

The Daily Mail (LSE: DMGT) has expanded its international digital
presence with the introduction of Daily Mail online India -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahome/index.html. At this early stage,
it contains just a sprinkling of Indian news with the Mail online’s
familiar British/US celebrity content. (The sports content is
British).

http://paidcontent.co.uk/article/419-mail-online-introduces-indian-site/

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Ahead of May IPO, Facebook's Ad Business Shines--With One Caveat [Forbes]

Just as it appears Facebook could go public as early as May, according
to a story from AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher, a new report indicates its
advertising business remains on an upswing. According to the report
out today from Facebook marketing firm TBG Digital, Facebook saw
rising ad rates as well as better performance on those ads in the
fourth quarter of 2011.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2012/01/16/ahead-of-may-ipo-facebooks-a...

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Is Facebook IPO on Track for Late May? [AllThingsD]

According to multiple sources, the long-anticipated public offering of
Facebook is now likely to come in the third week of May. That means
that the company must file its IPO documents within the next month,
given that the review by the Securities and Exchange Commission
usually takes about three to four months.

http://allthingsd.com/20120116/is-facebook-ipo-on-track-for-late-may/

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Facebook Begins News Feed Ads Rollout [Clickz]

Facebook began a slow rollout of ads to the news feed today, but the
units are not called Sponsored Stories - as some anticipated. Instead,
according to the Palo Alto, CA-based digital giant, they are labeled
"Featured" to distinguish them from earned media messaging that users
sometimes see.

http://www.clickz.com/clickz/news/2136663/facebook-begins-news-feed-ads-rollout

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Twitter lashes out at Google search changes [Reuters]

Twitter lashed out at changes Google Inc unveiled for its search
engine on Tuesday, describing the changes as "bad" for consumers and
for Web publishers. Twitter, a microblogging service that allows its
users to broadcast short, 140-character messages to groups of
"followers," said Google's changes would make it tougher for people to
find the breaking news often shared by users of its service.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/11/us-google-idUSTRE80A03O20120111

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AP names Eric Carvin social media editor [AP/Yahoo]

Eric Carvin, an AP Nerve Center news producer and former National Desk
editor, has been named the organization's social media editor, based
at headquarters in New York. Carvin will lead the AP's ongoing social
media efforts, coordinating with all national and international
regions, verticals and formats. He will work to ensure that social
media becomes an integral part of every AP journalist's skills.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-names-eric-carvin-social-190755581.html

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Financial Times Buys App Developer Assanka [AllThingsD]

The Financial Times has purchased Assanka, a London-based Web and app
developer. The FT has already been working closely with the 12-person
shop on projects like the Web app it built to replace the one it
removed from Apple’s App store, as well as an Android app.

http://allthingsd.com/20120105/financial-times-buys-app-developer-assanka/

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