Ning - 10,000 Words http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words Where Journalism and Technology Meet Copyright 2013 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:22:12 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Twitter Tops Social Media Buzz List Zeta Interactive, a digital marketing agency, recently released its annual rankings of social networks. They are categorized by “buzz,” a ranking calculated by volume and tone (percent positive ranking) of all the sites. This year, Twitter topped the list followed by LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook. Google+ did not make the top 10, partially due to its June launch—data starting from January 2011 was used to calculate the scores.

Minna Rhee, CEO of Zeta Interactive, declared 2011 “the year of Twitter,” and told Mashable, “For culture, breaking news and celebrities it is the social network.” Indeed, among the social networks, Twitter is the go-to for breaking news, and also has generated a lot of hype for its role in protests around the world. Combined with the sheer amount of mentions it gets from other websites, it jumped up two places from last year’s rankings. Facebook, which is much larger in terms of number of users, had the most negative buzz among the top 10 (although their negative buzz decreased compared to last year). continued…

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]]> Mona Zhang http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/twitter-tops-social-media-buzz-list-zeta-interactive-ranking_b9283#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/twitter-tops-social-media-buzz-list-zeta-interactive-ranking_b9283 http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/?p=9283 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:51:06 +0000