Quora Gains A Twitter/Facebook Growth Expert, Loses Top Engineer to Pinterest

Good news people who are really curious about Quora growth! You might one day be reading an article like this about Quora ...Because Quora has hired a former Twitter and Facebook guy, Andy Johns, to focus on user growth and engagement. Johns, who tweets under the apropos username @ibringtraffic, spent a year and four months at Twitter, two years at Facebook and is now taking his speciality to the fancy Q&A startup.]]>

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TechCrunch Teardown: Top Facebook Brand Page Growth and Key Trends

Editor's note: Steven Carpenter is an entrepreneur that writes the TechCrunch Teardown series that looks at the business models of consumer Internet companies.My last TechCrunch Teardown outlined the multi-billion dollar online brand advertising opportunity. As part of that research, I looked at the top Facebook brand pages to see how some brands were successfully using social media to connect with their consumers. With soaring Facebook revenues, a significant share of which comes from brand advertising, I went back again to look at how the top 165 brand pages performed in Q1 2011 to get a sense for which firms continue to get the most out of Facebook. And to see if some brands are showing signs of slowing growth. For instance, here is how the 10 largest brands on Facebook are doing:]]>

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