Today at the #140tc Twitter Conference in Seattle, Washington (which I keynoted this morning), HootSuite CEO Ryan Holmes announced that its popular Twitter application will be integrating with both MySpace and Foursquare, starting this week at the South by Southwest Interactive conference.HootSuite is one of the more popular Twitter applications, one specifically geared towards power users and businesses. It has been on a roll recently, launching integration with Wordpress and rolling out new updates to its iPhone and Android Apps.While ...

The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space.Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn; YouTube; Wordpress: these companies, built from the ground-up, are mainstays in social media. None of them were created by a large tech company, and all but one remains independent.It's an interesting phenomenon, when you think about it. Large tech companies have had limited to no success creating their own social ...

Hey there, music fans! Thanks for joining us for Free Music Monday this week, where we offer you 10 free downloads for your eclectic listening pleasure. If you haven't been with us before, we're collating free and legal tracks in honor of the #musicmonday tradition on Twitter.We happily accept your submissions for Free Music Monday as well, and if you're interested you can find information about how to submit your tracks (or music from artists you represent) at the end ...

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Even with Twitter experiencing delays this morning, Apple's iPad announcement generated 177,000 tweets in the first hour alone according to data from Trendrr.com.It should come as no surprise that the Twittersphere was (and still is) all a-buzz about the iPad the build-up to which has been months in the making but the iPad averaging nearly 3,000 tweets per minute in the first hour is just plain remarkable. We haven't seen anything like it in recent history. According to Trendrr, tweets ...

Reverend Fred Phelps's Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Twitter's San Francisco offices tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. PST. The Kansas-based church is picketing because it believes that the people who run Twitter don't use their position voice to warn a generation of rebels of the consequences of their rebellion.The church knows how to get attention. It has been hit with a tsunami of criticism for picketing military funerals and waving signs that say things like God Hates Fags while claiming ...

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Unless you have been living in a soundproof cave for the past few weeks, you are probably well aware that today is Apple tablet day. Today, our friends over at social media monitoring and analytics firm Sysomos took a closer look at the hype and how the rumors have resonated on Twitter, YouTube and blogs over the last 30 days. According to Sysomos' data, for example, Twitter users sent more than half a million messages - with an average of ...