Guest poster Greg Sterling is an Industry Analyst.View more from Greg Sterling at his blog, Screenwerk.The numbers are compelling. US teens spend roughly 25% of all their online time on social networks according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. And among social networks, as most people know, Facebook is dominant. The site has 350 million users worldwide and more than 130 million in the US.

One day in the very near future Facebook is likely to supplant Yahoo one of the top two Internet…

Yodle recently held a contest on twitter for new followers. In order to enter, twitter users had to become a Yodle follower before July 4th. We had more than 30 entrants to our contest! The prize? A FREE copy of Yodle’s new book Local Online Advertising for Dummies and a $100 AmEx gift card. We did a drawing for the winner, and the winner is @OzyTribe. Thanks to all our new followers on twitter and please be on the lookout for more contests soon.

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Part Two of a series on growing your business through social media tools

You’ve heard about Twitter enough to know that it is more than just a fad, but you still don’t really know much about how it can work for you and your local business.  Before you do anything, you should know what Twitter is.

What is Twitter? From the description on Twitter.com, Twitter is “a real-time information network powered by people all around the world that lets you share and discover what’s happening now.” Often referred to as a micro-blog, twitter users post updates that…