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Heavy Twitter Users Bring Social Activity to New Heights

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“Consumers active on Twitter are clearly the most influential online,” said Morgan Stewart, principal at ExactTarget’s research and education group, in a statement. “What happens on Twitter doesn’t stay on Twitter. While the number of active Twitter users is less than Facebook or email, the concentration of highly engaged and influential content creators is unrivaled—it’s become the gathering place for content creators whose influence spills over into every other corner of the internet.”

Social Shopping Draws Teens - eMarketer

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Fashion translates into social shopping for many teens—especially girls—who frequently seek approval from close friends or siblings about considered purchases. Retailers that use innovative tools to bring that experience online will do best at attracting teen customers.

The Mobile-Ad Market Explodes

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Branding, like you see in ads on TV and the Internet, won't work on mobile phones--the displays are simply too small, and the user's attention too focused, for a tiny brand banner to sink into the consciousness. Yet mobile phones are the future of media. Ads, therefore, have to be far more targeted, context aware, and easy to understand.

Android Sales Overtake iPhone in the U.S.

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Sales of Google Android phones in the U.S. are rising so quickly, the devices have outsold Apple handsets for the first time on record. New smartphone subscribers choosing Google phones accounted for 27 percent of U.S. smartphone sales, the Nielsen Company will announce this morning, nudging past the 23 percent share held by Apple. But Android isn’t just a U.S. phenomenon: Canalys today estimates that Android handset sales grew 886 percent worldwide from the year ago quarter.