Facebook, Twitter, and their friends make more money from ads than you think
People who subscribe to Facebook and Twitter can make a good bit of money from ad impressions, a study shows.According to research from social analytics firm Zwift, ad impressions make up roughly 50% of revenue from Facebook and 56% of ad revenue on Twitter.The other 36% comes from ad revenue from Instagram.The researchers looked at […]
How to make friends with strangers and make new ones online
In the years since its launch in 2006, FriendTree has quickly grown into one of the most popular online communities for making friends.Its app is available on Android, iOS and Windows Phone.But there is no Android app, no iOS app and no Windows Phone app.The app has more than 25 million active users worldwide.But the […]
How to make lifelong friends using a friend tree
People who make friends with their friends online are no strangers to the concept of creating online friendships.But when it comes to creating a social network, one that is truly permanent, it’s not as simple as it seems.As it turns out, you can’t just put an image on a friend’s friend list.In fact, you need […]
Alabama makes friends with Alabamians who made global friends
Alabama makes global friends with people who made local friends, according to a new survey.The state was one of just a handful of states where people were asked if they would make friends with someone who made a friend in another state.The state’s state-level surveys on making friends with friends revealed the results of an […]
When friend tree maker loses your friends
When a friend’s friend in New York went to get her car repaired, the car’s owner couldn’t figure out what was wrong.So she found a friend who was also in New Jersey and the two drove to the same spot where she had left the car, where she saw a car that was in the […]
Friend tree maker to create more friends in Asia, Africa, India, US – Reuters
by Reuters Editors – AUSTRALIA The maker of a friend tree maker will make more friends around the world, after its first successful launch in Asia.FriendTree, which is based in Adelaide, South Australia, has raised more than $10 million through a crowdsourced crowdsourcing campaign on the website Indiegogo.Friend Tree’s CEO James Taylor said he hoped […]
When is it okay to ask your friends to make a friend tree?
It was the summer of 2007, and the first summer of the internet.It was a golden time for the people of the Internet.I had just started at TechCrunch.I was a freelancer in the trenches of internet-building, and my job was to make sure that our company’s website worked.It felt like the beginning of the end […]