Friday, September 10th, 2010

Survey: Does Twitter have a personality? If it does, could you describe it? I am working with Assistant Professor, Iryna Pentina, Ph. D., of the Marketing and International Business department at The University of Toledo on a research project to determine exactly that. We want to understand if personalizing social networks, starting with Twitter, may lead to increased activity by those who think their personalities match their social network

As a social media consultant, I have used my name as a search term to demonstrate that social networking sites come up early as search results.Until recently a search on my name in either Google or Yahoo produced the same results: my website and blog, my profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter and my fledgling Facebook fan page for my social media consulting business. Earlier this week, while searching on my name in Google and Yahoo!, I realized my Facebook fan page did not come up in search results. What has changed?