is an analysis on the recent announcement of Twitter’s IPO. The tweet heard around the world came yesterday afternoon stating‚ “We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.” Immediately Wall Street was running wild with speculation over what the company could be worth‚ who the underwriters were‚ and whether or not Main Street investors would get fleeced as badly on this IPO as they all did on Facebook. The analysts
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of a person’s life‚ and although Facebook takes the lead with its 450 million members‚ there are other social networks gaining adepts every day. If we were about to count how many social networks exist nowadays‚ we will face up with at least 350; and it continues growing every day. Specifically‚ Tumblr‚ a 30 million-member social network that is really popular among young people in developed countries is getting bigger every day. These two social networks‚ Facebook and Tumblr‚ are really different
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The Twitter Trap STUDENT NAME: Pretty Vaddi Student Number: 300782105 COMM 170 Instructor: Evelyn Holmes The Twitter Trap Bill Keller in “The twitter trap” published in The New york Times (18 May 2011) notes that he felt as though he had poisoned his daughter by allowing her onto Facebook. He equates it to giving a drug and sees it as eroding a youth’s intellect or skills development memory skills‚ math skills‚ penmanship‚ innate sense of direction‚ attention span‚ problem solving and decision
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Contemporary Strategic Analysis of Facebook in Russia Subject: Contemporary Strategic Analysis Authors: Group Seven of all kinds (Anne-Gaëlle Le Gal‚ Hildegunn Nesje‚ Andreja Ojsteršek‚ Nikolay Semakov‚ Roman Shapurko‚ Elena Shatalova (Zlochevskaya)‚ Julia Shmeleva) Fall semester 2012 Mentor: Andrei Yu. Panibratov‚ Professor‚ Doctor in Economics‚ MBA Table of Contents Introduction 3 Social Networks Overview 5 The History of the Social Network Sites 6 Facebook overview 8 Part 1.
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SWOT analysis From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation‚ search A SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the Strengths‚ Weaknesses‚ Opportunities‚ and Threats involved in a project or in a business venture or in any other situation of an organization or individual requiring a decision in pursuit of an objective. It involves monitoring the marketing environment internal and external to the organization or individual. The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey
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Privacy Issues and Monetizing Twitter Strengths The first strength that Twitter has is its large amount of users. Twitter has hundreds of millions of users and the number continues to go. This is a quality strength because it give Twitter a large audience to send information to. It is a powerful thing to have such a large base of people all under one system. Twitter can utilize large group of people in multiple ways. The size also makes Twitter appealing to other outlets and companies. The amount
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[pic] What is it? Why use it? And what are the advantages and disadvantages of Twitter? Twitter is an online application that cannot be defined as one single tool. As such‚ this application is part a blog‚ part a social networking site and part cell phone/IM tool‚ designed to let users answer the question: “What are you doing?”. Users have 140 characters for each posting (or “tweet”) to say whatever they care to say. Many tweets do answer the question of what the user is doing‚ but plenty
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Kate Rohani Professor Keogh Intro to Sociology 20 September 2012 The Effects of Twitter Usage in America In a material world like ours today‚ cultural expressions are crossing all borders and affecting traditions and customs of societies more and more. Many new innovations are introduced and carried all around the world‚ changing the ways people view things and the way they live. No matter how small‚ the inventions always have social consequences attached to them. All of these innovations
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networking fatigue. In the essay‚ “Do I Really Have to Join Twitter” by Farhad Manjoo explained we can join Twitter if we wanted to know how it would turn out to be like. As Farhad Manjoo once stated: "Twitter is a cinch to get into...(Manjoo par. 6). In other words‚ Twitter is easy to access all someone would
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SWOT Strengths 1. Integration with websites and applications 2. More than a billion active monthly users. 3. Excellent users experience 4. Understanding of user’s needs and behaviour Weaknesses 1. Weak CTR of advertisements 2. Social network lacks of some features 3. One source of revenues – advertisements on Facebook 4. Attitude towards users’ privacy 5. Lack of website customization 6. Weak protection of users’ information Opportunities 1. Increasing
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