Lesley Mitchell is one cheap chick. This isn’t an insult, it’s a moniker she wears proudly as the voice behind both the blog and Twitter handle, One Cheap Chick.

And if you want to find the latest and greatest deals retailers are offering online, you’ll want to check out both!
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Author and journalist Susan Orlean (left) has written two nonfiction pieces that have been turned into films. She’ll discuss her new book, Rin Tin Tin, in Mediabistro’s first online Literary Festival & Workshops starting July 16. Other speakers include Rebecca Skloot, Jason Boog, and Jason Allen Ashlock. Register now.

The much-anticipated video game Diablo III was released on Tuesday. But most players haven’t been able to actually play the game yet – and they’re voicing their complaints on Twitter.
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This is a cautionary tale for any of your “over-sharers” on Twitter or Facebook: A CFO of a major fashion company lost his six- to seven- figure job over company-related tweets.
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The overall spend on social advertising is on track to reach $9.8 billion by 2016, says a new forecast from media research firm BIA/Kelsey.

$3.8 billion was spent on social advertising in 2011, which indicates overall growth in this space of some 250 percent over the next five years.

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What do women want?

Ah, the age-old question. And the answer, of course, is everything. Or is it? Back in March, we took a look at research from NetBase that analysed the things that men and women say that they want according to their posts on social media sites, noting that the study reached an interesting conclusion. Namely, that both genders mostly want the exact same things – ice cream, cars and pizza – albeit in a different order of preference.

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Jack Dorsey, co-founder of not one, but two, billion dollar start-ups – Twitter (of course) and the quite awesome payment processing reader, Square, has won countless awards for his ingenuity.

We can now add another accolade to this undoubtedly extensive list. And although he hasn’t won this award before, Dorsey just generally wins in life it seems – hence the “Wins Again” headline.
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If you’re into sports, you likely follow a few of your favorite athletes and teams on Twitter. You probably talk smack during games too! Well, Twitter and ESPN are going to help you step that up a notch by offering new programs that will be promoted online and on-air across Twitter, ESPN, and ABC and ESPN’s digital properties.
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Imagine your company, the Widgetry Factory, just realized a potential new niche. Widgetry would need to act quickly and would want to find influencers on Twitter to help dominate the market (assuming Widgetry’s marketing team was worth its salt, of course).

And imagine that this very specific niche would appeal to males who were physically active, fond of high-end footwear and living in the Southeast part of the United States and other comparable climates. How would Widgetry ever find these folks?

Well, if they understood a thing or two about Twitter’s firehose and who has access to it, the folks at Widgetry would know to check out the new PeopleBrowsr and Kred social data APIs (just released today) – because the folks at PeopleBrowsr not only have access to Twitter’s firehose, they’re kinda setting the standard for how to delve into it.
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There are lots of parody and humor accounts on Twitter, but this one should appeal to fans of 70-style shag carpets and whiskey sours: Anchorman Ron Burgundy has signed up for Twitter.
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It’s sometimes tough to keep up with the daily growing user numbers of our favorite social networks. How many people are on Facebook now? And how many users does Pinterest have? What about the number of women on Twitter?

This infographic from Go-Gulf.com shares the latest facts and figures about the users of the top social media sites.
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