CEOs and social media haven’t always made the greatest of bedfellows – while some chief execs seem to spend almost all of their spare time online, many others don’t bother at all – new research from Domo and CEO.com has revealed that the heads of America’s largest companies are gradually coming around to the idea of social networking, certainly when it comes to Twitter and linkedIn.

Facebook and Google+? Not so much.

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B2B social marketing agency LeadTail, in collaboration with NetBase, recently produced a report analyzing the Twitter activity of 515 digital marketers (143,856 tweets and 69,657 shared links) during Q2 of 2013.

“How Digital Marketers Engage on Twitter” provides insights into how digital marketers describe themselves, which social networks they’re active on, the content they share, and who most influences them.

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Cursing. Swearing. Dropping the f-bomb. Everybody does it. Right?

Back in 1972, legendary standup comedian George Carlin did an iconic gig where he talked about the seven dirty words you can never say on television in the United States. That’s more than forty years ago, but even today many of these words are still not used on the public airways in the U.S., certainly on the major networks (although they get a regular airing on HBO and Showtime). But what about the internet? How often do folks use these expressions online?

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One in four people worldwide will use social networks in 2013, a rise to 1.73 billion social media users from 1.47 billion in 2012.

What’s more, this global social audience is expected to jump to 2.55 billion within the next five years. But how exactly does this global group break down in terms of social network affinity?

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New research from mobile tech company StepLeader shows that adult US smartphone owners are increasingly turning to mobile apps and social media to consume local news.

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In just a few years Twitter has established itself as an increasingly important medium for breaking news, but what happens when Twitter itself is the subject of that news, and the story is almost wholly negative?

Last week, users responded with anger on reports that female campaigners and MPs had been subject to abuse and rape threats on Twitter, particularly when Twitter, Inc, was initially slow to respond and then failed to provide any practical solution. YouGov tracked the UK public’s reaction to this news between July 28th and August 5th and discovered that attention given to Twitter, which is defined as those hearing anything good or bad about a brand, doubled in this period (from 12 percent to 24 percent of the UK public).

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Nielsen has released a study that, for the first time, provides statistical evidence of the two-way relationship between Twitter and television, inasmuch as how conversation on Twitter about a TV show can boost ratings for that program, and vice versa.

However, while the data has shown that there’s definitely some correlation between a spike in tweets and strong ratings, it’s typically more in Twitter’s favour than the other way around.

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A recent study by Compete in collaboration with Twitter examined the impact of tweet exposure on B2B tech companies.

The insights suggest Twitter is an invaluable tool in B2B lead generation and conversion.

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A recent survey conducted by legal-information website FindLaw.com found that a considerable chunk of young adults are aware of, and act on, the potentially negative career impact of their social media activity.

Seeing as 91% of employers use social networking sites to screen prospective employees, it’s probably a good thing.

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When you share content on your mobile phone, which social platforms do you use?

If you’re anything like nine in ten other users, it’ll be Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest that reap the benefits of your actions. Together, the three platforms control 92.8 percent of the mobile content sharing space, with Facebook alone responsible for six in ten shares.

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