The 2012 Yearbook "Spanish in the world", which has just been published by the Cervantes Institute, has revealed that Spanish today occupies the third place on the Internet as the most used language, including social networks, after having grown by 800% in the last decade. And that on Twitter is already the second most used language after English.
A study by researchers at the University of South Carolina has shown that the microblogging platform Twitter can help many people lose weight. As reported by Brie Turner-McGrievy and her colleagues in the journal Translational Behavioral Medicine, participants in a weight loss program increase their chances of shedding excess pounds if they use Twitter to inform others that they are also trying. of your progress.
In its annual balance of the topics that have interested the most over the last twelve months, the social network Facebook has revealed that in Spain the 5 issues most discussed and shared on the platform have been "work", "strike", " Rajoy "," economic crisis "and" Formula one ".
Starting next February, tweets that include URLs or links will be reduced to 118 characters, which represents a loss of two characters of text per tweet compared to the current capacity of the microblogging platform.
The technological revolution that is taking place at the moment and the one that is coming are characterized, above all, because they offer individuals the power to change things. This is what Rahaf Harfoush, expert in digital innovation strategy and author of the book ArchiTects, proposed in the session "Social networks, the engine of collaborative action" at EmTech Spain 2012, the conference on emerging technologies that for the second consecutive year has organized the MIT in Spain.
Success stories don't always have to start with big numbers or outrageous hits to finally turn into something really cool. Evan Henshaw-Plath, co-creator of Twitter, explained in EmTechSpain that the microblogging platform was born from a resounding failure.
Although the image we have of social networks is that information travels at high speed, what we have found is that, in most cases, viral information spreads very slowly due to human communication patterns. Humans communicate in "bursts", which means a succession of calls, tweets or messages between two people is followed by periods in which there is no communication and that makes the speed of information much slower than expected .
The largest analysis of user behavior on social networks, GlobalWebIndex, has just released its latest report. The study, based on interviews with more than 152,000 people in 31 different markets, suggests that Facebook users are the most active of all social platforms, with 64% of users contributing their activity.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
