Tweet Software company SmartBear recently released the seventh installment of their quarterly Web Performance Index for Social Networks. It ranked which social media sites were the fastest and which were the most reliable in the third quarter of 2011. The findings are based on data collected by SmartBear’s AlertSite, which monitors the home pages of these five
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Tweet Early on Friday, visitors of the MySpace website were presented with a curious message that left many users believing that the service had been hacked. We messed up our code so bad that even puppies and kittens may be in danger. Please turn back …now. * Have your pet spayed or neutered.
Tweet The NYPD has formed a new social media unit, The New York Daily News reports, to catch criminals who use Facebook and Twitter to announce law-breaking plans or to brag about their latest crime. In June, an overcrowded house party in East New York, Brooklyn that was advertised on Facebook as “Freaky Friday” ended
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Tweet Post from Mashable authored by Tom Anderson Tom Anderson is the founder and former president of MySpace. MySpace sold in 2005, and Anderson left the company in early 2009. You can find him on Google+, Twitter or Facebook. Sometimes when you follow a trend, you fall flat on your face. Early adopters of Google+
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Tweet For a long time we’ve seen spammers, phishers and malware authors concealing their advertising pitches, scams and malicious payloads by pretending to be a message from a social network, whether it claims to originate from Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace. Here’s one of the latest we caught today, claiming to come from Twitter. Twitter-er!
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Tweet Professional social network Linkedin surpassed Myspace in terms of traffic to become the No. 2 most visited social networking site in the U.S. in June. LinkedIn, which has seen a resurgence of traffic after its IPO in May, reached an all-time high of 33.9 million unique visitors in June compared to Myspace, which saw
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Tweet How soon we forget. MySpace, the mostly-abandoned, Justin Timberlake-owned social network of yore, was the first to ink a VoIP deal for member-to-member calling — more than three-and-a-half years before Facebook. This little tidbit of truth was dug up by none other than MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson, who was also quick to point out
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