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Pin it to win it: the rise of Pinterest in the USA and UK
Pinterest has achieved a great deal of notice and success in a relatively short amount of time. Since its launch in early 2010, the site has grown to...
Pinterest is now bigger than Tumblr in the US
It may not be bigger worldwide, but Alexa shows Pinterest is now ahead of Tumblr in overall US traffic and reach. On the list of top 500 sites in the...
Quick findings on Pinterest users
The wildly popular photo sharing site Pinterest has been at the center of both controversy and success over the last year. Once nearly completely...
Pinterest does not like URLs in descriptions
Pinterest can be such a fun place to post pictures you either take yourself or find on the web. Creating creative boards that you can fill with pictures...
How Much Time Do We Spend Each Month On Social Networks?
Did you know that on average we spend only 3 minutes per month on Google+? The number is somewhat shocking since 405 of our monthly minutes are spent...
TIL Twitter has a relatively-small number of employees
It only takes 140-characters or less to send a Tweet and it takes under 1,000 employees to operate the company according to research done by social media...
Little Monsters: The social network
She already dominated the pop world, but now with over 51 million fans on Facebook and 24 million Twitter followers, Lady Gaga plans to conquer the social...
Social news, networking combine to form a "game" with Thruzt
It looks like Pinterest. It acts like Digg. The newest player in the social media sphere adds some features from Stumbleupon and Twitter to the mix to...
Why retail loves Pinterest
It's all a matter of expectations. When we go to Facebook, we expect to see our friends and family detailing (often too much so) their lives through...
Pinterest growth stalled in March. So what?
After doubling its users in February, growth slowed dramatically in March down to 1 million new users or 5% growth. It supposedly has investors and others...
16 Ways Educators Use Pinterest
Everyone is talking about Pinterest for business or Pinterest for marketing but what about Pinterest for education? Can the fastest-growing social network...
The marketing zombies will take over Pinterest soon. They already are
In 2007, there was an emerging social media site that had a modest but growing userbase. It was designed to let users tell their friends and followers...
Just another indication that the Obama team "gets" social: Pinterest
If there's one thing that can be said about Barack Obama and his chances of winning re-election, it's that he's dominant on social media in ways that none...
The 6 components that make Pinterest so addictive
To those of us who have been watching social media grow over the past few years, there are certain sites that succeed that didn't quite make sense when...
Is Pinterest good for businesses?
The latest social media phenomenon to grab our attention (and engulf the attention of some) is Pinterest. It's getting the same type of attention that...
Pinterest grows up with 4 major changes to their TOS
As social photo and video sharing site Pinterest continues to dominate social media blogs for good reasons and bad, its growth has brought it under the...
Should Mashable change its name to Pinterestable?
Before anyone starts attacking me for "traffic envy" or accuses me of turning other blog's follies into pseudo-news a la Gawker, let me say that I...
Despite mainstream growth, 80% of Pinterest users are women
There has been a giant shift in the content posted to Pinterest over the last 3 months. Around Christmas, 2011, the site was filled with holiday crafts,...
Pinterest may be changing the social commerce game, but why?
Pinterest is starting to enter into the social media in ways that most sites only dream about. Other than Google+, it's the fastest growing social site in...