Twitter has launched its Oscars Index to help the audience track the buzz and social conversation about this year’s nominees. The dedicated hub, launched by the micro-blogging service on the www.oscars.twitter.com platform, features colourful dynamic line graphs related to the 2013 Oscar nominees in six major categories. The graphs are based on the overall conversation referring to Academy Award Nominees on Twitter these days. “The Twitter Oscars Index reflects the ebb and flow of the movie-related conversations throughout the awards season, showing how positively fans are commenting on nominees on Twitter,” says the company on its official blog.
Category Archive: Social Media
Facebook has announced Graph Search, which is designed to help users of the social network No.1 find information within the site. Facebook says it has over than 240 billion photos and more than a trillion connections, created by more than million of its users, and Graph Search is “a new way to navigate these connections and make them more useful.” The new tool, which was introduced on February 15, is now in beta and is available for a limited preview only in English.
After seven long months of anticipation and constant checking out the black ‘beta’ version, today one of the earliest social networking pioneers MySpace has relaunched with a new fresh and sleek design, revised concept and irresistibly handsome co-owner Justin Timberlake in a suit and tie on the landing page of the website, exclusively presenting his new namesake single ‘Suit & Tie’ from the new album.
YouTube has unveiled a new free app for iPhone and iPod touch, which allows to use artistic filters when making the clip. The new product called YouTube Capture, which has been added by Google to the iTunes Store, is a must-have app for those who love adding an artistic touch to videos and sharing them just after they’re ready.
Google has tapped well-known animated characters from the Wallace and Gromit series to promote its Google+ Hangouts feature this holiday season. The new campaign launched by Google and Aardman Animations, the creators of the animated duo, demonstrates that the service helps “get your family together during the holidays, even if you can’t all be in the same place.”