Here are some of the things I am reading today:

social media right behind 911 in crisis poll

About one in five adults in the U.S. say they would use Facebook or other social media to try to contact emergency responders in a disaster, a new survey suggests.

This year has never been bigger for social media. Facebook has more than 500 million active users, Twitter obtains over 300,000 new users a day, and YouTube exceeds 2 billion views per day. Devices designed to support social media, from Droids to iPads, are selling out before they hit the market. Even old standby brands like Old Spice are finding a new home in social media.
“The long-rumored geolocation “check-in” feature at Facebook is slated to debut within weeks, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNET.It’s going to take the form of an application programming interface (API) for third-party companies on the Facebook developer platform, integrating existing “check-in” start-ups more deeply into the massive social-networking service and in turn permitting location-aware data to become a part of existing platform applications.”

stifling JetBlue’s social media strategy

“Overnight, a slew of Facebook pages cropped up dedicated to the flight attendant. A public page for Steven Slater already has nearly 50,000 fans as of press time, while a “Free Steven Slater” page approaches 15,000 fans. Then there’s a “WWSSD?” page (What Would Steve Slater Do), a Steve Slater PayPal fund and, maybe the most telling of his rapidly rising star, the “Can Steven Slater Get More Fans Than Justin Bieber?” page.”


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