Social media: Twitter, Facebook and MySpace attract fewer users

The attendance of social networks shows signs of slowing, at least according to Compete.com.

The company, that specializes in measuring Web traffic, found that the number of Internet users in the U.S. that connect to Twitter, Facebook and MySpace fell in November in comparison to previous months.

According to Compete the number of unique visitors to Twitter has decreased with 2.43% in November compared to October.

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Email marketing tips: limit the number of characters in the subject line

A short subject line is fully readable in most email clients and is also quicker and easier to understand for most recipients.


Furthermore, short subject lines in your emails raise the open and click-through rate. Emails with subject lines with ‘0 to 49’ characters have an opening rate that’s 12.5% higher than that of subjects with ’50 or more’ characters.


The click-through rate for subject lines of ‘0 to 49’ characters is 75% higher than the CTR of emails with subject lines in the ’50 or more character’ range.