Links on Twitter: Facebook users like stories with digits, Reuters looks to citizen journos for video, Google adds ads to YouTube mobile

By Twitter March 10, 2010, 7:15 p.m.

Twitter doesn’t make top 10 list of social media search terms (loses to variations of Facebook, YouTube) http://j.mp/asyhxw »

Google is serious about making money off YouTube, it just added ads to the mobile sitehttp://j.mp/cpUp2B »

Greg Beitchman, global editor of Reuters says tapping into citizen journalism video is a “priority” http://j.mp/bW12Hj »

The #1 reason to include digits in your headlines: they get shared more on Facebook http://j.mp/9Ona7w »

Marketing firm exec advocates freemium: “it’s not enough to have a big audience on the Internet” http://j.mp/bNFegP »

POSTED March 10, 2010, 7:15 p.m.

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