Ninety-one per cent of French companies tweet an average of seven tweets per week.

News from LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Klout and Facebook all make this list of top social media news for the week of May 10.

What’s new and cool from the world of social media.

This week’s top stories in social media

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Lately, times haven’t been too good for HMV, the British multinational music retailer. In January the company officially entered administration and some UK stores were closed.  Then last week, as 190 people were in the midst of hearing that they were losing their jobs, the company’s Twitter account was hijacked by disgruntled employees who live tweeted events as they unfolded.
Live tweets included:  “There are over 60 of us being fired at one! Mass execution, of loyal employees who love the brand. #hmvXFactorFiring”, and “We’ve all been fired, in a group, …

Sherrilynne’s Ottawa Twitter top 20 lists used to feature on this blog monthly. But they were very time consumer to compile and the grading tools used kept changing algorithms and or other aspects of their service making the lists difficult to standardize.

The Pope has seen the light. Last week he sent his first ever tweet: “Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart.”

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Treasury Board of Canada President Tony Clement, sometimes known as the tweeting minister, spoke at last week’s IABC 2012 Canada Business Communicators’ Summit in Ottawa. His told the audience of public relations professionals about his own social media journey and shared some insight into how he sees politics in the age of social media.
Clement started out on Twitter only after he realised that people were mentioning him there. “I thought I’d better figure it out,” he said.  “As a defensive mechanism, I thought that I should try to understand Twitter …

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This week CIRA*, the organization behind the .ca domain, held its annual general meeting and symposium in Ottawa, and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone was the closing keynote speaker.
He told the crowd made up of Internet geeks, social media enthusiasts and business professionals about how Twitter was born in 2006.  At the time his business associates weren’t convinced of the usefulness of a tool that would let friends communicate through only short text messages. They said the idea was too simple.
But Twitter was launched anyway, and before long there was a …

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Pepsi and Twitter are teaming up for what might become a real game changer for the Twitterverse. Today, Pepsi’s Twitter page has become an entertainment centrepiece where people can download free songs and watch concerts.
It’s called Live Now For Music. The initiative results from Pepsi’s significant investment in Twitter to create this enhanced profile and some clearly compelling content.
Through Twitter, Pepsi allowing followers to participate in a  ‘pop-up’ concert. This interactive event invites followers to suggest concerts streamed and songs played.  Tweeps are encouraged to follow and use the #livefornow …