Favorite Finds

You really do learn something new every day – especially if you’re keeping an eye on your Twitter feed!  Here are some stories that made us stop and think this week:

• Where’s the News?  A PR News/PRWeb survey finds that 19 percent of press releases don’t have a specific objective.  
• Twitter Knows When You Sleep:  The New York Times reports that Twitter engineers are studying sleep habits of users worldwide based on tweet volumes. 
• The Power of the Pin:  Behavioral commerce company SteelHouse finds that Pinterest users are 79 percent more likely to purchase items they saw pinned on Pinterest versus Facebook users. 
• Facebook for the Pre-teen Crowd?  It might happen, but this infographic from SodaHead.com (via Mashable) indicates that many people think users of the social media site should be over 13. 
• Jaguar Isn’t Mad at “Mad Men”:  Proving that – unlike Don Draper – Jaguar has a sense of humor, the company issued a light-hearted response to the negative portrayal of their brand on one of TV’s most popular programs.