by NewsWhip | Apr 24, 2014 | Other
Earlier this week, we looked at the distribution of interactions across Facebook publishers’ content. Now we’re examining the same area for Twitter. Using data from our ever insightful Spike platform, we’ve come up with some breakdowns of Twitter...
by NewsWhip | Apr 22, 2014 | Other
We look at how many Facebook engagements that the majority of articles get. Every month, we rank the biggest publishers on Facebook and Twitter in terms of total engagements (likes/recommends, shares and comments) for content published throughout the month. This sums...
by NewsWhip | Apr 8, 2014 | Other
As we move out of the first quarter of 2014, we look at the biggest performers on Facebook in March. As the Facebook algorithm/shift to mobile/social optimisation conversation drifts on, one thing we’ve noticed is that Facebook engagement for top publishers...
by NewsWhip | Mar 27, 2014 | Digital Journalism
We look at how journalists can cleverly use Twitter to enhance their reporting. In a piece for Wired last year, journalist Mat Honan argued that Twitter has become too big to fail. By that, he meant fail technically, by disappearing behind the cartoon ‘fail...
by NewsWhip | Mar 25, 2014 | Digital Journalism
Performance based pay for journalists will grant serious market power to influential reporters. Reading David Carr’s piece on a trend toward performance-based pay for journalists, my first reaction was to worry about the poor souls who won’t make rent unless their...
by NewsWhip | Mar 18, 2014 | Other
Following on from our look at the biggest Facebook publishers of February last week, we reveal the biggest publishers on Twitter of last month. Here are the 10 biggest publishers on Twitter last month, ranked by total Twitter shares of content published during...
by NewsWhip | Mar 13, 2014 | Other
It’s time for our monthly social rankings – who’s ahead, who’s dropped off, and who’s new? Here are the top 10 Facebook publishers of last month, ranked by total shares of articles published during February: As you can see, BuzzFeed...
by NewsWhip | Mar 6, 2014 | Other
What if front pages were selected by newspapers’ readers instead of their editors? At NewsWhip, we’re always interested in the news stories people are choosing to share – and how those stories differ from the normal news stories editors put on the...
by NewsWhip | Feb 28, 2014 | Other
Judd Legum is the Editor-in-Chief of Think Progress, a popular American liberal news site. He and his his team have been using Spike for the past year. Here, he tells us about how it helps with his site’s journalism. Finding interesting stories to write about...
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