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X is shutting down Circles
Say your goodbyes to Circles by October 31st.
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Threads adds a bunch of new features in first notable update
Threads had released its first significant update since bursting onto the scene at the start of this month as a rival to Twitter.
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New leak gives us another look at what Instagram's Twitter competitor will look like
The Verge got access to an internal meeting at Meta which went over Project 92, the Instagram's upcoming Twitter competitor.
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Instagram could be working on a paid verification feature
Instagram might be considering the possibility of offering paid verification to users, based on code seen by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi..
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Kanye West suspended from Twitter after posting a swastika
Kanye West was previously suspended in October.
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Trump’s TikTok ban might have been right after all - Vox
No matter who controls Congress, Chinese-owned TikTok is in trouble.
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If you think Instagram is bad now, you won’t like Zuckerberg’s plans
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to double the number of algorithmically recommended posts we see on our Instagram and Facebook feeds by the end of next year.
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China's Weibo shows user locations to combat 'bad behavior'
Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, told users on Thursday it would start to publish their IP locations on their account pages and when they post comments, in a bid to combat "bad behavior" online.
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Twitter might start charging for TweetDeck through Twitter Blue | TechCrunch
Twitter might start charging for TweetDeck through Twitter Blue
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Facebook users banned â€indefinitely’ for ignoring messages
Many Facebook users were given a March 17 deadline to set up the security program or face having their account locked until its done.
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TikTok insiders say social media company is tightly controlled by Chinese parent ByteDance
Former TikTok employees say there is cause for concern when it comes to the popular social media app's Chinese parent company.
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Twitter is letting anyone apply for verification for the first time since 2017 - The Verge
Twitter has relaunched its public verification program, allowing anyone to once again apply to have a blue badge on their profile. You can apply from the Account Settings page on the web, as well as from within Twitter’s app.
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Completely delete your Facebook account, loose ends and all - CNET
Deleting your Facebook account isn't as simple as clicking a button. Here's everything you need to know.
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The Best Sites to Buy Real Facebook Likes and Followers
Want to grow your influence on Facebook? This article shares a list of the best sites to buy real Facebook followers and likes.
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Apple will let Parler back on the App Store
Apple has approved Parler's return to the iOS app store following improvements the social media company made to better detect and moderate hate speech and incitement, according to a letter the iPhone maker sent to Congress on Monday.
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Facebook services restored after global outage
Facebook Inc has fixed a technical issue that caused a global outage of its services after more than a million people reported problems with its photo-sharing app Instagram.
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Mercer-Backed Parler Casts Its Reboot as Fight for Free Speech - Bloomberg
Leaked recordings of meetings detail role of Rebekah Mercer at social-media platform
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Facebook to pay news industry $1 billion over 3 years - Axios
The pledge comes as Australia passes a new media law designed to make tech giants pay for news.
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Pinterest: How AR elevates our data strategy | VentureBeat
Pinterest senior VP Jeremy King talked with VentureBeat about how the company's data strategy fuels changes.
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Facebook’s latest ad tool fail puts another dent in its reputation | TechCrunch
Reset yer counters: Facebook has had to â€fess up to yet another major ad reporting fail. This one looks like it could be costly for the tech giant to put right — not least because it’s another dent in its reputation for self reporting. (For past Facebook
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Instagram redesigns its home screen for the first time in years, adding Reels and Shop tabs - The Verge
Instagram redesigned its home screen to include Reels and Shop tabs. The Likes and upload button are moving to the top right-hand corner of the home screen next to the DMs inbox.
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LinkedIn launches new tool to help users discover new careers
LinkedIn's tool displays careers job seekers can transition into by finding skills that overlap with their previous jobs.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls on Congress to reform Section 230
Mark Zuckerberg will ask Congress to reform Section 230, the law that shields tech companies like his from liability for what users post on platforms.
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Facebook and Instagram testing new feature to cross-post stories to both apps
Instagram and Facebook are testing a new feature that would further deepen the integration between the two platforms. As reported by The Verge, Facebook is testing the ability to bring Instagram stories directly to Facebook stories. The report explains th
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Facebook tests linking your FB account to your news subscriptions | TechCrunch
Facebook is testing a new feature that could help news publishers create a better experience for paying subscribers on the social network. The idea is that when Facebook identifies a subscriber from one of its publisher partners, that subscriber will be i
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Instagram will make suspicious accounts verify their identities | Engadget
Instagram is taking new steps to root out bots and other accounts trying to manipulate its platform.
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Twitter is surveying users on what features they’d want from a subscription - The Verge
Twitter is surveying some users to ask about potential features on a possible paid subscription version of Twitter, which could add the option to retract tweets, post longer videos, or remove ads entirely.
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Twitter faces 48-hour boycott over anti-Semitic posts by rapper Wiley | Fortune
The boycott followed complaints that Twitter was too slow to remove offensive material, some of which was also posted to Instagram.
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Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply
Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp decline in its core advertising business.
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Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts | TechCrunch
Last week’s hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted today — including those of an elected official in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders. The attack saw numerou
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Twitter is working to unlock accounts it locked 'proactively' after hack | Engadget
The company says hackers didn’t access users’ passwords
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will allow users to turn off political ads
Facebook has come under criticism for allowing political ads to contain false statements. Now, Mark Zuckerberg says that users will be able to turn them off.
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Twitter is working on a way for people to request a blue checkmark, again
Twitter is bringing back a feature it had to kill after it was misapplied to a neo-Nazi.
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Facebook will verify identities for suspiciously popular accounts | Engadget
Facebook is now verifying IDs for profiles that have both suspicious behavior and posts that quickly go viral.
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Instagram Will (Finally) Pay Influencers | WIRED
The company is rolling out new ways for its creators to make money—and they might sound familiar.
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Twitter is testing settings that let you choose who replies to your tweet
The settings could let you allow only people you follow or mention to participate in conversations on the platform.
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Twitter notifies users that it’s now sharing more data with advertisers - The Verge
Twitter removed a privacy feature from its data-sharing settings that let users opt out of sending advertising measurement and engagement data to its partners.
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Pinterest shares jump as company issues early first-quarter guidance
Pinterest said that it hasn't seen much exposure to the advertising segments most hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, including travel, automotive and restaurants.
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Facebook’s less cluttered desktop redesign is more widely available starting today - The Verge
Facebook is rolling out the overhauled version of its desktop site. The new design places a heavier emphasis on two of Facebook’s most critical features — events and groups — and users can try it now before it rolls out officially later this year.
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How to create a Twitter List (and join others)
Use Twitter Lists to clean up your timeline.
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Why You Really Only Need 1,000 Fans To Be Successful
You don't need millions of fans to make a six-figure income through social media.
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Facebook Messenger is getting a much simpler new design
Facebook Messenger is removing its Discover tab starting next week, TechCrunch reports, after pledging to do so in August of last year. The removal means chatbots and Instant Games are gone, making Messenger more streamlined and simple in the process.
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Instagram Tests Reverse-Chronological 'Latest Posts' Feature
If you're annoyed by Instagram's algorithmic feed, there's good news. Instagram appears to be testing a new feature that gathers posts and displays them in reverse-chronological order.
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Four Easy Yet Powerful Social Media Strategies to Grow Your Audience in 2020
Four Easy Yet Powerful Social Media Strategies to Grow Your Audience in 2020
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3 Strategies to Revive And Grow Your Facebook Business Page
Business pages are still valuable, but the way to leverage them has changed.
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The FTC Is About to Crack Down on Influencer Ads on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube | Inc.
A new review is likely to result in stricter rules and increased enforcement.Â
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Instagram DMs come to the web
Instagram is testing out direct messages from the web.
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The Three-Step Social Media Marketing Machine
Social media marketing success boils down to three simple steps.
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12 social media trends to watch in 2020
As we close this decade down, there’s no doubt that social media will play a growing role in our lives for the foreseeable future.
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Twitter blocks animated PNGs to keep trolls from using them to trigger seizures
Twitter will no longer animate PNG files after trolls hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation's handle and hashtags last month to send potentially seizure-inducing ima...
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Twitter rolling out redesigned iPad interface with multiple columns, more
Twitter is rolling out an update to the official Twitter for iPad app that brings a much-needed interface redesign. With today’s update, Twitter for iPad now better takes advantage of the added screen real estate available on the iPad. As first noted by A
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How Facebook learns what you buy at physical stores to show you ads
Facebook learns about what users are buying in order to serve them ads that reflect what they're likely to spend money on.
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Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019 | TechCrunch
In a year-end retrospective released this morning, Reddit says its user base grew 30% this year to reach 430 million monthly active users, as of the end of October. Its users also contributed 199 million posts, 1.7 billion comments and 32 billion upvotes,
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Facebook lets you get rid of those annoying notification dots
On iOS you can customize Facebook's shortcut bar to remove sections you don't use.
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Twitter exec teases possible major changes coming in 2020
The floated ideas could fundamentally change how retweets work on Twitter, and that's not all.
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Instagram test helps you choose people to unfollow
Groups would help you cut users you rarely see in your feed.
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Google And Facebook Introduce Four New Features Specifically For Small Businesses
Google, Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Messenger, Small Business
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Pinterest says AI reduced reported self-harm content by 88% | VentureBeat
Pinterest announced that it's using AI and machine learning to reduce the visibility of self-harm content on its platform.
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Instagram launches Create mode with On This Day throwbacks | TechCrunch
Instagram has finally turned Throwback Thursday into an official feature. It’s part of the new Instagram “Create” mode that launches today in Stories, bringing the app beyond the camera. Create makes Instagram a more omni-purpose social network with
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Twitter says it unintentionally misused user data for advertising
Users saw adds targeted based on email and phone numbers provided for security.
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Facebook will begin hiding likes on Friday - CNET
The social media giant will test hiding the number of likes, reactions and views that posts get.
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Twitter now lets all iPhone users pin favorited lists to the timeline - 9to5Mac
After opening up access for the home timeline Lists feature to let users more easily follow their interests earlier this summer, Twitter is rolling out access for all iOS users today. Twitter shared the news in a press release: On iOS starting September 2
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Facebook will shut down Group Stories on September 26th
If you didn't find yourself using Facebook's Group Stories, you're not the only one. The social network has confirmed a report from commentator Matt Navarra th...
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Influencer Fraud Costs Businesses Billions but Here's What You Can Do to Avoid It | Inc.
Hype isn't a good reason to invest in marketing tools without thoroughly checking them out.
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How Is Influencer Marketing Changing?
How is influencer marketing changing? This question was originally answered on Quora by Steve Oriola.
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Instagram: Here’s How to See Everyone You’ve Blocked – Adweek
You have the option to unblock them.
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Twitter's experiments pay off as user numbers grow - CNET
More people are flocking to the site on a daily basis.
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Big brother? Instagram will now ask you to think twice before posting profanities
Instagram today released two new features with a view to curb bullying on the platform - but it remains to be seen how effective they are.
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Facebook will start taking a cut of fan subscriptions in 2020 | TechCrunch
Facebook will take a cut of up to 30% on fan subscriptions, beginning on January 1, 2020. The social network is revealing its plans as part of a broader slate of monetization-related announcements this week at VidCon. The news confirms a TechCrunch report
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Facebook’s content oversight board plan is raising more questions than it answers – TechCrunch
Facebook has produced a report summarizing feedback it’s taken in on its idea of establishing a content oversight board to help arbitrate on moderation decisions. Aka the â€supreme court of Facebook’ concept first discussed by founder Mar
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Agencies voice concerns that Instagram is killing organic reach
Scores of Instagram users and agencies recently took to the social network to voice concerns over a sudden dip in engagement on their posts. Speculation around an algorithm change was dispelled by an Instagram spokesperson, but it’s left a question mark
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Facebook and Twitter disable new disinformation campaign with ties to Iran - The Washington Post
The disabled accounts include two on Twitter mimicked Republican congressional candidates in order to push pro-Iranian political messages
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Facebook removed 2.2 billion fake accounts in three months - CNN
Facebook took down 2.2 billion fake accounts between January and March, a record high for the company.
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Instagram is working on new rules for banning accounts
Less than a week after banning Alex Jones and other far-right extremists, Instagram has revealed that it is working on a new policy for account removals. These...
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Everything Facebook announced at F8 2019 | VentureBeat
A comprehensive compendium of everything Facebook announced at its F8 2019 developer conference in San Jose, from Messenger to virtual reality.
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Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts | TechCrunch
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Reddit’s Subreddits Are Getting Collections, Events Posts
The site tested the new feature with the "Game of Thrones" Subreddit first.
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Pinterest shares rise 28% on first day of trading, worth $13 billion | VentureBeat
Shares of Pinterest closed 28.58% higher than the IPO price on the first day of trading, giving the image-sharing site a $12.83 billion valuation.
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Facebook exposed millions more Instagram passwords than we realized
Facebook today revealed it'd discovered millions of improperly secured passwords on its server. So, you know... business as usual.
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The chat feature may soon return to Facebook’s mobile app
Facebook upset millions upon millions of users five years ago when it removed chat from its core mobile app and forced them to download Messenger to communicate privately with friends. Now it looks like it might be able to restore the option inside the Fa
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Twitter drops the number of people you can follow in a day
The change is aimed at cracking down on spammers.
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To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself
Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried to take the high road versus Facebook, with Spiegel claiming “Our values are hard to copy”. That inaction allowed Zu
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Facebook asks for public input about its plans for a content oversight board
In November, Facebook announced its plans to create an external content oversight board that would serve as something of a “supreme court” for Facebook’s more controversial content policy decisions. With the release of a draft charter i
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New Facebook tool answers the question “Why am I seeing this post?”
Facebook announced today that it is adding a feature called “Why am I seeing this post?” to News Feeds. Similar to “Why am I seeing this ad?,” which has appeared next to advertisements since 2014, the new tool has a dropdown menu that gives users
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3 Key Impacts of Facebook's Latest Changes on Brands
This is what Zuckerberg's latest announcement means for your business
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Twitter reveals big changes to conversations and new camera features
The changes are meant to make good on the company's promise to promote "healthy conversation."
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Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger are down for some users
It's not just you: Facebook's apps are having an outage.
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Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature | TechCrunch
Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the same way the Facebook-owned app did to Snapchat. Code buried in Instagram for Android shows the company has prototyped an option to create public “Collections” to which mul
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How to Use Visuals Effectively for Social Media Marketing
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a meme or infographic must be worth a thousand likes, right?……
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Twitter may let us 'clarify' (but not edit) our old tweets
Twitter 2025 could be a non-stop line of 'No, that's not what I meant.'
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Is Facebook About To 'Break' Instagram, And What Does That Mean For Influencers?
Until now, Instagram has kept its distance from Facebook and the brands have been kept separate. But that could all be about to change, driven by influencer marketing, and the challenge for Facebook is to make that work without breaking the Instagram infl
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5 new features Twitter is testing in its iOS app
Twitter has been quietly testing improvements to night mode, encrypted direct messages, and new ways to use GIFs, according to new screenshots.
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Researchers say Twitter's not doing enough to combat abuse
Does Twitter need to do more to police its APIs? Researchers say yes.
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Account linking could make Instagram the heir to Facebook Login
Teens’ aversion to Facebook jeopardizes not only the company’s feed ad revenue, but its dominance as an identity provider. The Facebook Login platform keeps people tied to the social network in order to easily access other apps without a separ
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Twitter bug makes it look like random retweets are appearing in your timeline | TechCrunch
A number of Twitter users have been complaining that tweets that were retweeted by people they don’t follow are now showing in their timeline. The issue, thankfully, is not related to a new Twitter algorithm or recommendation system, as some had feared.
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Instagram outage forces millions to look directly at the world for nearly half an hour
Photo-sharing app and social network Instagram was briefly taken offline on Monday afternoon, causing nothing of consequence to occur other than a brief respite from one source of the constant deluge of inconsequential information to which we all voluntar
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Facebook is integrating WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger | TechRadar
Facebook is bringing its three messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger closer.
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Twitter starts rolling out simplified web interface to some users
Twitter is starting to deploy a revamped web client that's simpler to look at and promises tweaks like an emoji button and a revised trending section.
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Instagram will now let you post to multiple accounts at the same time
Instagram is rolling out a new feature today, which will allow users who manage multiple accounts to post the same content to all feeds more directly. Previously, users were required to either manu…
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A 23 Step Social Media Marketing Checklist for 2019 [Infographic]
Looking to make sure you stay on track with your social media marketing efforts in 2019? This checklist will help.
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Proving the ROI of influencer marketing is challenging but it can be done
Marketers have singled out measuring ROI as one of the biggest challenges they have with influencer marketing, but there are ways it can be done.
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10 Improvements Influencer Marketing Has To Make In 2019
If influencer marketing wants to move from a line item in the "experimental" budget to a line item in the media budget, the industry will need to continue to mature in 2019.
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Confronting Facebook's Growing Pains
It is not that Facebook wants to promote poisonous material, but its system is designed in a manner that is allowing it to happen.
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I Built a Social Media Following of 1 Million in 30 Days. Here's How You Can, Too.
By applying these social strategies you can build a huge following with high levels of engagement.
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Forget celebrity influencers - reach micro-influencers who impact your brand
Celebrity endorsements may not have the traction we think - fake followers included.Takumi thinks it has found a better way - with micro-influencers.
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How to Become the Social Media Manager Every Company Dreams Of
As more brands realize the need to reach their audience online, the demand for social media managers to help grow their business through social is rapidly increasing. As social media marketing recrui…
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Facebook, are you kidding? | TechCrunch
Facebook is making a video camera. The company wants you to take it home, gaze into its single roving-yet-unblinking eye and speak private thoughts to your loved ones into its many-eared panel. The thing is called Portal and it wants to live on your kitch
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Relike lets you turn a Facebook page into a newsletter | TechCrunch
French startup Ownpage has recently released a new product called Relike. Relike is one of the easiest ways to get started with email newsletters. You enter the web address of your Facebook page and that’s about it. The company automatically pulls your
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How Facebook could screw up Instagram - Recode
Let’s hope it doesn’t.
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Facebook Hacked, 50 Million Users Affected - Motherboard
Facebook "discovered a security issue" that the company said allowed attackers to "take over people's accounts."
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Twitter says bug may have exposed some direct messages to third-party developers | TechCrunch
Twitter said that a “bug” sent user’s private direct messages to third-party developers “who were not authorized to receive them.” The social media giant began warning users Friday of the possible exposure with a message in the app. “The issue
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Facebook Started Indexing News Pages to Determine Which Publishers Belong in Its Ad Archive – Adweek
The social network developed its requirements with news organizations, academics and industry groups.
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Twitter brings Bookmarks to the web with a new design, now in testing | TechCrunch
Twitter is testing a new experience for web users, the company announced in a tweet on Thursday. A small number of Twitter users will see the updated version of Twitter for web, which will include access to Twitter’s Bookmarks feature, and scrolling thr
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The Five Step Formula To Instagram Engagement
Instagram is today one of the fastest growing social networks in the world. Between 2014 and 2017, the number of daily active users has grown from 200 million to 500 million. The time spent on Instag…
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Twitter suspends more accounts for 'coordinated manipulation'
Twitter's long been under fire for its approach to bots and extremist accounts, but now it appears to be taking a more proactive stance towards its community gu...
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The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People - Motherboard
Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook’s biggest challenge. Leaked documents and nearly two dozen interviews show how the company hopes to solve it.
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Trump accuses social media firms of 'silencing millions' | Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump accused social media companies on Friday of silencing "millions of people" in an act of censorship, but without offering evidence to support the claim.
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10 essentials for your social media marketing campaigns
Sporadic tweets and banal Facebook posts just won’t cut it in today’s online world. Set clear objectives, and keep current and consistent with engaging posts and audience interaction.
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Twitter turns to academics to improve conversational health on the platform | TechCrunch
Twitter is partnering with two groups of academic researchers to figure out how to measure the health of conversations happening on the platform. It’s all part of the company’s continuing long game for social relevance. Despite the fact that it lost 1
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Facebook Suspends Infowars' Alex Jones for Hate Speech | Fortune
Facebook has taken a stand against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, suspending him from the platform for 30 days.
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LinkedIn adds support for sending voice messages – a feature nobody was asking for | 9to5Mac
LinkedIn today announced a new feature for its Messaging platform that seemingly nobody asked for. In a blog post, the company revealed that you can now record and send voice messages up to one-min…
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What Is Local Twitter? - The Atlantic
“Local Twitter” is a booming network of basic, young suburbanites across the country.
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Facebook bug randomly unblocked some users from people’s block lists
Concerning for those who use their block list to prevent harassment and abuse
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Instagram’s Wannabe-Stars Are Driving Luxury Hotels Crazy
Hotels are being forced to figure out how to work with a new class of brand-peddling marketers.
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Facebook bug switches 14 million users' default sharing settings to public - TechSpot
Facebook is informing 14 million users that what they assumed were private posts could have been viewable by the public. A bug caused the users' “suggested” sharing option to be set to “public” by default, rather than basing the suggestion&hel
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Social Media Engagement is the New Social Media Marketing: How To Do It Well
As social media platforms evolve to reward so reward authentic social media behaviour, social media engagement has become a vital part of any marketing strategy. Here's a look into why we think social media engagement is so important and how you can
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The do's and don’ts of hashtags
How to grow your reach and engagement with hashtags.
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Facebook will remove the Trending topics section next week
The removal comes after years of criticism.
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Seven Steps To Make Your Business Instagram Account Successful
Use hashtags wisely and creatively.
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How To Make The Most Of Social Media Marketing
How can I do social media marketing? This question was originally answered on Quora by Frits Habermann.
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How Facebook Marketing is Changing (And How to Be Prepared) - The Buffer Blog
Just a couple of weeks back, Facebook announced a significant update that could signal a new path for the platform. Here's how we feel it will change the future of Facebook marketing.
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Here's what to expect when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces angry EU lawmakers next week
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and another executive will be grilled by European politicians on Tuesday about the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook's role in election interference, and its attitude to new European privacy laws.
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The No. 1 Way To Get Attention On LinkedIn
Employers or business prospects are searching on LinkedIn for someone like you. Having the right keywords on your profile is the single best way to improve the odds that your profile is the one they will find, click on and message. Here's how to find the
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Four New LinkedIn Features You Shouldn't Ignore
Stay on top of the latest LinkedIn features so you can stand out and expand your success. Here are four features that you need to try for yourself.
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Report: Facebook App Exposed 3 Million More Users' Data
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, via a myPersonality app on Facebook, reportedly used data from 3 million users to power a spin-off company that
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How to Growth Hack the Facebook Algorithm to Reach Your Most Engaged Fans
It's not Mark Zuckerberg's fault that you're not up to date with how social media marketing is done in 2018.
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11 Big Changes Coming to Facebook: What You Need to Know
Here are the most significant announcements made at Facebook's F8 Developer Conference and what they mean.
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Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option - Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. has been conducting market research in recent weeks to determine whether an ad-free version paid by subscriptions would spur more people to join the social network, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Twitter says all 336 million users should change their passwords
Twitter says account passwords were not hacked but users should still change them to be safe.
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This Company Will Give You $100,000 to Build a Better, Alternative Facebook - Motherboard
A startup incubator is giving seven companies $100,000 in seed money to build a privacy-oriented, democratic Facebook alternative.
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Use These Tips to Crack LinkedIn’s Algorithm and Generate More Leads
When it comes building a sales funnel, there has never been a better platform than LinkedIn. I’ve personally used LinkedIn as a primary lead source to grow my business and gain more than 47,0…
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How to Create a Fullscreen Canvas Experience on Facebook
Imagine for a second that you can have a customer’s complete, undivided attention on social media. Instead of seeing four other posts on their feeds distracting them, all they see is yours, dominat…
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The 1-2-3-4 Strategy to Drive Leads From Instagram
Instagram can make sense as part of a lead-gen strategy. The secret is a laser focus on optimizing four key elements – Content Marketing Institute
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Real People Are Turning Their Accounts Into Bots On Instagram — And Cashing In
Verified accounts turning themselves into bots, millions of fake likes and comments, a dirty world of engagement trading inside Telegram groups. Welcome to the secret underbelly of Instagram.
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Facebook’s Messenger Kids is getting a sleep mode
Parents can have more control
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10 Social Media Usage Statistics You Should Know (and What They Mean for Your Marketing Strategy)
We sifted through mountains of data on social media trends to bring you the social media usage statistics that mean the most for your marketing strategy.
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Here's Facebook's once-secret list of content that can get you banned
Facebook is making its Community Standards rules public for the first time, here's what you need to know about what types of posts are and aren't allowed.
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Instagram Looks Like Facebook’s Best Hope - Bloomberg
With lawmakers and users on the warpath, the photo-sharing app could be Mark Zuckerberg’s way out of the latest data scandal.
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Instagram traps data without a Download Your Information tool | TechCrunch
It’s hard to #DeleteFacebook with no viable alternative, but at least you can export all your data. There’s no such option on Instagram . That lack of data portability puts users at the mercy of Instagram’s product and policy decisions. And it could
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Facebook and the Price of Tech Utopia
Was everything users gained from Facebook worth what they gave up?
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How to Check If Cambridge Analytica Could Access Your Facebook Data | WIRED
Facebook has released a tool that lets you see if you were caught up in the Cambridge Analytica fiasco—and what other apps know about you know.
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Mark Zuckerberg's letting researchers dive into Facebook data to protect elections
The social network says the initiative will help researchers figure out the effect social media has on democracy.
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Growth Hacking Tips to Increase Your Brand Awareness Via Social Media
To reach out to more customers and increase ones awareness on social media is possible with the growth hacks tricks.
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5 Reasons Why Nobody is Engaging With Your Social Posts (and How to Fix it)
Is nobody engaging with your social media posts on Twitter or Instagram? Here's 5 reasons why, and how to fix it to make sure you get attention on your social media.
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Twitter Is Developing a Subscription Plan That Promotes Your Tweets Automatically | Fortune
Twitter is testing a subscription plan that automatically promotes tweets in order reach to more users and grow follower bases
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Mark Zuckerberg says he disagrees strongly with Bosworth death memo, calls executive provocative - Business Insider
Facebook is back on defense as Mark Zuckerberg spoke against a controversial memo by VP Andrew Bosworth, while defending the executive.
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LinkedIn Prospecting: How to Find and Connect With Future Customers : Social Media Examiner
Social Media Marketing Podcast 295. In this episode, explore how to use LinkedIn to find leads and turn them into customers with John Nemo.
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Facebook VP's memo suggests relentless growth is good, even if it gives a platform to terrorists or bullies | VentureBea
In a never-before-seen internal memo titled “The Ugly,” published today by BuzzFeed News, Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth advocated that the social media giant be relentless about growth, even if someone kills themselves as a result of bullying or people
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How This Founder Accumulates 100M Impressions Each Month And What CMOs Can Learn From It
Getting eyes on your content is every marketer's goal. One man who gets 100M Impressions every month has some tips every marketer can benefit from.
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The 7 Biggest Secrets Of Social Media Influencers
Obviously, they put in extra work and have more experience than the average Joe. But beyond that, there are a few secrets that most influencers don't make public.
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Uncovering Instagram Bots With a New Kind of Detective Work
Marketers are increasingly concerned that too many of the influencers they pay to push their products are actually followed by a percentage of accounts that are fake.
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Does the success of Stories signal the end of Facebook's News Feed?
Big changes could be on their way.
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10 Tech Tools That Will Help You Get Instagram Followers
Build your audience with these 10 tips.
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Facebook's Long-Term Plan for WhatsApp Is Finally Coming to Fruition (and It's Brilliant) | Inc.com
Instagram was a bargain that's turned a very tidy profit. WhatsApp was a very different sort of bet.
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Instagram Unleashes the Ultimate Weapon for Marketers – Adweek
Opinion: â€Regramming’ could encroach on Pinterest’s position as a king of brand content discovery
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Inside Facebook's Two Years of Hell
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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Facebook looks to be testing comment downvotes
Not liking your friends' posts might soon be a whole lot easier.
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Twitter’s 280 character limit increased engagement without increasing the average tweet length – BGR
After some initial testing, Twitter late last year officially upped the character limit on tweets from 140 characters to 280. In one fell swoop, Twitter changed the most defining feature of the service: brevity.
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The New Facebook Algorithm 2018: Everything Marketers Need to Know
An inside look into the brand new Facebook Algorithm for 2018 with information directly from an exclusive News Feed webinar for publishers. Here's what brands and marketers need to know.
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Why Posting to Facebook Without Paying Is a Waste of Time | DigitalNext - AdAge
Use your marketing team's time and the dollars you're spending with your agency on promoted "thumb stopping" content, Mike Proulx argues.
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AI could make trolls think twice before retweeting offensive content | VentureBeat
While hate speech in the U.S. dates back to the country’s earliest days, the rise of social media has thrust hateful keyboard warriors into the spotlight. Many social media platforms have attempted to counter hate speech using AI-driven tactics, but the
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Best Practices for Advertising on Instagram – Adweek
Make the most of the unique opportunity presented by the visual social network
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Inside Social Media's Black Market: The Follower Factory - The New York Times
Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.
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13 Clever Ways to Increase Your Instagram Engagement
Social Media Marketing World speakers share their lesser-known tips to upping your Instagram game.
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The Instagram course that can help you grow an audience and monetize content
This online course includes 23 lectures and two hours of content that can teach you how to use Instagram for business, gain a following, and monetize posts.
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How To Make LinkedIn The Hub Of Your Social Media Strategy
When you go about building your brand in the virtual world, be efficient. When you make LinkedIn the center of your social media strategy, you can increase your visibility and have greater impact on your target audience with minimal effort.
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How To Build A Thriving Brand Presence On Instagram
There are millions of brands trying to get noticed on Instagram, here's how to stand out in the sea of sameness.
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Weird Facebook glitch has 'broken' News Feed, but it's actually kind of nice
Facebook's News Feed is broken. No, that is't a comment on the current state of social media or Mark Zuckerberg's pledge to fix what's broken about Facebook.
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Facebook Finally Blinks - The Atlantic
Mark Zuckerberg’s radical decision to reinvent the News Feed is a plea for mercy.
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10 Social Media Tools You Need in 2018
Brands are turning to social media platforms to reach target audiences through paid and organic means. Here is a list of 10 tools that social media marketers should leverage for maximum results.
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What is the best time to post social media?
Different platforms have different user patterns. See this guide for the peak engagement hours for each of the major social media outlets.
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10 Instagram Tools to Help You Build Your Following in 2018
Successful brands and influencers have used these tools in order to generate sizable Instagram audiences in no time.
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Iranian Authorities Block Access to Social Media Tools
Antigovernment demonstrators face a crackdown on the apps they use to organize and communicate with the outside world.
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How to Write Posts That Actually Get Read and Shared
I had a call the other day with an entrepreneur who told me that his blog articles are like an echo chamber; it feels like he is talking to himself. He's investing a ton of time and effort into creating posts, but they are not getting any engagement. I
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10 Instagram Automation Tools to Build a Massive Following
Instagram has immense power to make or break brands and influencers. For example, Halo Top Creamery increased online sales by 2,500 percent after growing Instagram followers, and the makeup company Anastasia Beverly Hills came to prominence only after the
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When Instagram Influencing Isn't So Glamorous | WIRED
Instagram fame can be enviable—but it comes at a cost. Excerpted from Brooke Erin Duffy's (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love.
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Facebook Can Now Find Your Face, Even When It's Not Tagged | WIRED
A new Facebook tool deploys facial-recognition to identify users in photos, even when they're not tagged.
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Facebook To Punish 'Engagement Bait' Posts
Ask for a "like" or "share" on Facebook and the company said it will downgrade, rather than increase, the post's reach.
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Beware of Relying on Fake Social Media Followers. Ever Heard of 'Shadowbanning'?
It's scarily easy to grow your numbers rapidly if you're willing to resort to fake traffic. But if you do, brace yourself for the consequences.
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Snapchat Is Taking a Page From Facebook’s Playbook to Grow Into a Bona Fide Social Media Platform – Adweek
Will an algorithm help grow new users?
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These Are the Biggest Social Media Fails of 2017 | Inc.com
It's been a banner year for corporate facepalms.
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Tumblr CEO and founder resigns from company - CNET
David Karp founded the blogging site 10 years ago.
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Facebook expands AI-based suicide prevention tools
Facebook's suicide prevention AI has advanced to the point where it can proactively intervene when it detects that someone may be at risk of suicide.
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An Updated List of Facebook's Algorithm Changes
If you do Facebook marketing, one thing that you might want to understand is the Facebook algorithm.
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7 Ways Facebook Keeps You Addicted
The intersection of 2 obsessive technologies sees us checking our social apps on mobiles many times a day. Here is how Facebook creates addiction.
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Twitter is doubling the length of tweets to 280 characters for some people
The famous Twitter character limit is being expanded from 140 characters to 280 characters.
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Mark Zuckerberg Can’t Stop You From Reading This Because The Algorithms Have Already Won
And the machines are running the asylum.
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Facebook just stole one of Myspace’s worst features
Facebook is testing a new feature on its mobile app that will show a friend's activity status directly on their profile, allowing you to track them.
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The unforeseen consequences of an AI-built social network | VentureBeat | AI | by Vivian Michaels
Artificial intelligence is one of the most powerful technologies invented by humankind. This technology has affected almost every industry, including the medical, finance, and banking Industries. Due to its enormous potential, investors are sinking some serious funding into AI.
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3 Tips for Creating Original Social Content Your Audience Loves – Adweek
Opinion: If you’re honest with yourself, you’ll probably come to the realization that your content isn’t very original.
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Here’s how much social media stars get paid to post ads
Surprise! The biggest celebrities aren’t always the highest paid.
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More Americans are getting news from social media than ever before - Recode
More Americans than ever are getting news from social platforms like Facebook, Twitter and even Snapchat.
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19 Social Media Content Tools That'll Speed Up Your Content Creation
Creating great social media content takes time. Here are 18 powerful social media content tools (and tips for creating great content in just minutes).
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How I Achieved a 48% Success Rate Using Twitter for Link Building
The gripes among link builders are plentiful, but they’re also deserved. There’s the pitifully low success rate. The hours logged crafting personalized outreach. The potential brand damage from a…
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Social Media Saved Harvey Victims In Texas — But That's Not Really A Plan
Twitter and smartphones didn't exist when Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans. Hurricane Harvey showed their potential — and how much remains to be done.
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Your Social Media Strategy Isn't Complete Without These 21 Tactics
You’re ready to take social media to the next level. But if you aren’t building the traction you hoped for, there’s usually a reason. Just like any industry, there are a set of crucially important tactics every successful social media strategy needs
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A Day in the Life of a Social Media Manager: How to Maximize Your Time on Social Media in 2017
See how a typical social media manager keeps a schedule and follows a checklist to achieve the many different tasks and to-dos of a typical workday
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Want to Take Full Advantage of Social Media? Stop Thinking of it as One Big Sales Pitch | Inc.com
In order to truly flourish on social media, you should begin thinking of it more like a conference and less like a cold call.
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Instagram is pushing restaurants to be kitschy, colorful, and irresistible to photographers - The Verge
Restaurants are being designed to be kitschy, colorful, and irresistible to photographers.
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A 4-Step Process for Building Your Instagram Presence | Social Media Today
Here's a four stage process for building an Instagram following, from creating a profile to gaining more followers to posting.Â
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There Is a Best Time to Publish on Social Media and You Can Determine When It Is
You work hard to post good content. Don't let it be overlooked because of poor timing.
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10 Social Media Mistakes We've Made (And How to Avoid Them)
We've committed many social media mistakes that have cost us reach, engagement, fans, and customers! Here's what we've learned and how you can avoid them.
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10 Unforgivable Facebook Marketing Mistakes From Brands
Facebook has a market saturation unrivalled by any other social network. To win over your audience you need to avoid these Facebook marketing mistakes.
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4 Tips to Turn Social Media Content Creation Into a Full-Time Career
What you can learn from this Instagram superstar.
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Facebook wants to become the new mobile storefront - Business Insider
Facebook wants to become the new mobile storefront. To help, the company has unveiled new ad tools for brands and retailers.
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Snapchat’s newest feature is also its biggest privacy threat - The Verge
Earlier this week, Snapchat introduced Snap Map, an opt-in function that allows you to share your location with your friends on a map. Snapchat’s introduction video to Snap Map, seen above, focuses...
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Say goodbye to finstas and hello to Instagram 'favorites'
Instagram is testing a new feature called "favorites" to let users share private photos with a select group of people.
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Here's How to Change Your Name on Facebook | Mental Floss
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com.
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Whoops: Facebook Accidentally Exposed Its Employees to Suspected Terrorists | Vanity Fair
One moderator fled his home after learning that terrorists he’d banned had found his personal Facebook profile.
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Snapchat vs. Instagram: What marketers need to know - Digiday
With Facebook’s Instagram Stories positing huge competition to Snapchat, brands and advertisers are trying to figure out which works best.
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8 Mistakes That Immediately Make You Look Like a Social Media Newbie | Inc.com
If you're making any of these mistakes on social media, your brand will appear out of touch as a result.
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7 Ways to Turn Instagram Followers into Customers for Life #InstagramforBusiness
Use these seven ways to reach out to prospects and make them want to buy from you, over and over again.
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Influencer Marketing: A Key Building Block Of A Successful Content Marketing Engine
By activating influencers as part of a media buy, marketers can reach consumers through trusted voices and help drive business value.
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Instagram Analytics: Which Metrics Really Matter?
These key figures can help you measure your reach and make smart moves that engage audiences to interact with your brand.
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Real Influence: How Adobe Uses Influencer Marketing | MarketingProfs Podcast
Here's how Adobe uses influencer marketing to dramatically increase the company's reach. Gain insights from how to attract and engage influencers, measure success, and maintain relationships.
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How to Run an Instagram Story Takeover : Social Media Examiner
Do you want to reach more people with your Instagram stories? Discover how to plan and execute an Instagram Story takeover.
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Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence | News | The Guardian
Leaked policies guiding moderators on what content to allow are likely to fuel debate about social media giant’s ethics
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Welcome to the Next Phase of the Facebook Backlash
Privacy watchdogs think a damning leaked document about Facebook targeting insecure teens could help usher in new era in privacy protections.
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6 Things The Average Instagrammer Does Better Than Most Marketing Professionals | Inc.com
Your greatest asset might be your fashionista intern.
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9 easy ways to explain what you actually do as a social media professional
Quick quiz for social media marketers: Raise your hand if you’ve ever been asked, “So, you get paid to go on Facebook?” “We're hunting for awesome startups” Run an early-stage company? We're inviting 250 to exhibit at TNW Conference and pitch on
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Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: If You're Not Using Instagram, You're Already Behind
Only 20% of small and medium businesses pay to advertise on Instagram, writes Krista Wiltbank, head of social media at GetResponse.
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7 Social Media Experts With Followers in the Millions Share Their Strategies
Grow your following by the thousands with these tips.
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The Social Media Analytics Showdown: What You Can Track and How
Analysis is the key to getting the results you had in mind when you created all that compelling content.
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Instagram Algorithm: The 7 Key Factors that Influence Your Organic Reach
In this post, we'll go through the seven key factors of the Instagram algorithm that influence your reach and share 10 ways to boost your reach today.
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Can you see who deleted you on Snapchat? Yes, but it's complicated
There's a clever way to tell who has taken you off their list.
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This instagrammer’s epic shots of Yosemite National Park will make you want to travel right now
This collection of pics that will make you wanna pick your climbing gear, camping tent and head to California to enjoy one hell of an outdoor experience.
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How to Become An Influencer By Accident (With Smart Automation)
You don’t need a business to become an influencer; in fact, you don’t even have to know why you are doing it. Once you have an audience, opportunities come.
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How Much Time Do People Spend on Social Media? [Infographic]
People apparently spend more time on social media than they spend on eating and drinking. See where consumers are spending their hours—and days and years—on each social media platform.
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5 Reasons Micro-Influencers Shouldn't Be Ignored
Get better engagement and a more targeted audience while spending less on your marketing budget.
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How to Avoid Unwanted Communications on Social Media
That recent tech innovation known as the internet has made keeping in touch with family and friends easier than ever—but it might also have brought you some unwelcome attention from people you’d rather not keep up correspondence with. If you want to m
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Facebook adds new features to Instant Articles to encourage email sign-ups and Page Likes | TechCrunch
Facebook today rolled out an improvement to its Instant Articles feature that now lets publishers include call-to-action units in their articles to better..
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Facebook is turning into a confusing social nightmare
Facebook has drowned users in new features and tests. It's a confusing mess and the cracks are starting to show.
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7 Ways to Attract Thousands of Followers on Social Media
Unless you're famous, attracting a pile of fans to your feed may be a challenge. Here's how regular people can do it.
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This ex-Googler wants to fix social media and make you a viral Facebook and Twitter superstar
Post Intelligence wants to make you better at social media, without your having to do anything.
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Here's How to Tell If Your Company's Ad Is Beating Competitors on Facebook
Find out how your Facebook advertising performs compared to the rest of your industry.
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Snappers can now start a chat by tapping a Bitmoji
You can now place friends' Bitmoji on your home screen and tap them to start chats.
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Why You're Not Getting Customers From Social Media
New study shows how Facebook likes alone don't cut it.
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How To Provide Witty And Effective Customer Support On Social Media
If you’re a milleninial founder, here are some tips to help you and your team offer witty and effective customer support on social media.
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Facebook has started to flag fake news stories
Coming to your feed: A "disputed" label for bogus stories.
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How To Sell On Instagram - business.com
Emerging Instagram trends and tools for every business owner. Learn to master the skills of social selling.
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Follow These Simple Steps To A Massive Social Following
Social media engagement doesn't have to be a black box of mystery. With the right strategies and effort, anyone can create a massive social following.
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How to make all your social media posts truly private | Popular Science
When you update your social media accounts, you might be revealing more than you think to a wider audience than you expected. Here are the settings you need to know about to keep your pages private.
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A Good Thing? Facebook Eyes Long-form Content | Social Race Media
Ive always heard competition makes sectors grow and makes things better. I dont know if I agree. Today I read that Facebook wants to jump into the content busin
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LinkedIn Just Stole an Idea From Facebook - And it's Tremendous
LinkedIn recently released new tool that makes it far easier to hyper-focus and customize your marketing approach on the platform.
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Report shows how much money publishers make from platforms like Facebook, Google, and Snapchat
The report, from Digital Content Next, reveals the average amount a premium publisher makes from distributing their content across third-party platforms.
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Twitter just isn't enough. President Trump takes to Snapchat.
It's official. Donald Trump has taken on some very crucial
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Screw "Personal Branding": My Top Three Social Media Resolutions For 2017
One writer says the received wisdom on how professionals should act on social media is failing to make the world a better place.
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10 Facts You Didn't Know About Facebook Advertising
What works today may not work tomorrow.
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7 Apps You Need as a Social Media Consultant
To be efficient as a social media consultant, you need the right applications that encompass every aspect of your social media activity and business
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3 Creative Ways to Generate Leads With Instagram
Have you ever thought of how to generate leads with Instagram rather than just using it for brand building? These 3 creative tactics will get you started.
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How to Engage on Social Media Like a Team of 30
ReQueue is a tool launched by CoSchedule that allows you to amplify and automate your social media marketing.
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Social media advertising and brand posts: four lessons to live by
Social media users are turning their back on brands, with some saying that they 'actively ignore' brand posts or ads. Turn heads with these top tips
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The Complete History of Social Media | The Daily Dot
The origins of social media date back further than you might expect.
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9 Companies Helping Your Social Media Presence Grow Online
If you want to grow your social media presence online you’ll need to do more than just create a Facebook account and update it once a week. Social media has rap
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Here's how HipChat just got a little better than Slack
It's the latest move in a two-horse race.
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25 tips for becoming an online influencer
Influencer marketing has become a powerful strategy for brands who want to reach their audience in a non-pushy, non-promotional way. Instead of pushing their own message, they can leverage online influencers to get their message out in a more palatable way.
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Twitter responds to BuzzFeed harassment story by covering its ears | VentureBeat | Social | by Harrison Weber
Twitter says it’s working on it.
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How to use Instagram Stories | TechCrunch
Lookout, Snapchat. Instagram just launched its own Stories feature for sharing everyday moments that disappear. Click the arrow to the right or scroll down to..
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The big flip: How Snapchat reoriented video advertising
Embracing vertical video poses technical challenges for brands wanting to repurpose their video content, as well as requires a different artistic eye.
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Social Media Gets More Love, But Facebook and Twitter Don't Get More Likes - NBC News
Americans are spending more and more time on social media, but are increasingly dissatisfied with the experience, a new survey shows.
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5 old school social media tactics that are no longer effective
A look back at social media marketing tactics that may have worked in 2012 or 2013, but aren’t quite so effective nowadays.
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9 Ways to Communicate with More than Just Millennials on Social Media - The Next Scoop
It isn’t clear why the millennials are the focus of most advertising and marketing campaigns. Maybe it’s because marketers have bought into their own stories about â€youth is beautiful’ line hook line and sinker and have now become blinkered to oth
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Twitter throttled in Turkey amid attempted coup
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are reportedly blocked in Turkey amid talk of an attempted coup.
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Twitter will livestream the Democratic and Republican National Conventions thanks to a new deal with CBS - Recode
Details on how it will work — and whether Twitter gets paid — are still being ironed out.
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Facebook Messenger adds end-to-end encryption in a bid to become your primary messaging app | TechCrunch
Facebook Messenger wants to be your primary messaging app. As people become more and more concerned about security, being the best messaging app means being..
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3 Facebook Ads Case Studies for Improving Conversion Rate
Having trouble converting on your Facebook Ad campaigns? See how these companies do it.
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Twitter launches a dedicated app for managing business accounts | VentureBeat | Social | by Ken Yeung
Twitter has launched an app aimed at helping businesses manage communication and engagement with their followers. Called Twitter Dashboard, it’s available in beta for those in the U.S. on both iOS and as a desktop app. One could think of it as either a
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Is Your Company's Social Media Expert Really an Expert? Here's How to Know | Inc.com
You hired a social media expert for your business. But how do you know you hired the right one?
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10 simple steps for more clickable social media content | Articles | Home
Writing powerful social media copy that grabs people's eyes and wins their hearts is a challenge. Often, when our content isn't breaking through the noise, we can fix it with a few tweaks.
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Snapchat says it has basically replaced TV for millennials
Twice as many millennials watched the first GOP debate on Snapchat as did on regular TV.
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Twitter Is An 'Inevitable' Social Network Acquisition - Fortune
Twitter is trying to turn things around, but that hasn't stopped the company from being called the next desirable social network buy.
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The Ultimate Cheat Sheet of Ad Sizes & Specs for Every Social Network | Inc.com
Keep this quick reference guide handy for your social ads campaigns!
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22 Hidden Features to Help You Get More Out of Twitter | Inc.com
Twitter is woven into the fabric of business. Here's how to make it even more valuable.
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6 Killer Tips To Promote Your Instagram Page
So fellow entrepreneurs and business owners, you must all be using Instagram as a part of your Social Media Strategy by now and you want to be rocking it. Of course it is needless to say that you sho…
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How Mark Zuckerberg Led Facebook’s War to Crush Google Plus | Vanity Fair
In Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg built not just a business, but a company culture with the fervor of a messianic sect.
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Instagram Influence Marketing: What Two College Student Projects Taught Us - Forbes
The even savvier students have questions, such as: How does Instagram influence start and what is the social cost of allowing brands into an otherwise organic feed?
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Snapchat Overtakes Twitter in Daily Users
Buoyed by its overwhelming popularity among young people
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Social Media Trends to Watch
Social media is moving at breakneck speeds and what was yesterday’s latest craze is today’s “That is so 2015.” In order to stay on top of your marketing game, you need to know what’s going on in this ever-evolving social world.
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Facebook's new advertising play: Selling ads for non-users - LA Times
To advertisers, Facebook Inc. 's biggest treasure trove is what it knows about you.
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How to see who’s tracking you on Facebook (aside from Facebook)
Being tracked on the internet is something that’s only to be expected, since advertising is still the biggest online moneymaker out there. Google and Facebook are two of the biggest companies that make money by being able to tell advertisers what we li
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What the designer of the old Instagram icon thinks of the new one
The designer of the old Instagram icon reveals his thoughts in the new one, and where the look of his design came from.
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Facebook passes 1.65 billion monthly active users, 54% access the service only on mobile | VentureBeat | Social | by Emi
In its first quarter 2016 earnings announcement today, Facebook revealed it now has 1.65 billion monthly active users (up 15 percent year over year) and 1.51 billion mobile users (up 21 percent year over year). The company also shared that it now has 1.09
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Zuckerberg: Facebook bots will help businesses respond faster than with messaging | VentureBeat | Mobile | by Blaise Zer
Facebook today heralded the promise of chatbots, while also acknowledging that the much-hyped technology is still in its infancy.
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5 Quick and Easy Ways to Triple Your Social Media Following | Inc.com
Need a social media following boost this quarter? Try these 5 tactics.
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Is Facebook Lite Starting a New Social Media Marketing Trend?
Facebook Lite is making huge inroads in developing countries and now boasts over 100 million users. What can it teach us about Facebook marketing trends?
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Social Media Is Too Important to Be Left to the Marketing Department
When customers need help, they expect companies to offer it quickly and through multiple social media channels — but most companies aren’t set up to do that. Some companies increase their social media staff to offer live responses during big events like the Super Bowl or the Grammys, but then they return to predominately one-way social media or content marketing.
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What Does Twitter’s Algorithmic Feed Mean for Social Marketing? - Fortune
Last week saw a major shift in the new media landscape, as Twitter switched all of its users to a so-called “algorithmic feed.”
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Tips and Tricks to Beat Facebook's Algorithms | Fstoppers
Ever since Facebook changed to curated news feeds, there has been endless grumbling in the photography community about diminished reach and post engagement. That shouldn’t stop you from trying to beat their algorithms. You can still have a ton of succes
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Twitter Rumors Can Be Stopped by Official Accounts, Study Says
The Twitter rumor mill can spread misinformation around the web like wildfire, but a few choice tweets can slow its roll.
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5 Critical Building Blocks of Social Media Marketing And How to Put Them in Place
There are five critical foundations of social media marketing and this article will tell you how to implement them.
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Instagram was down and everyone thought it was bad April Fools' prank
Instagram was down this morning, and it wasn't very funny.
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Snapchat now lets you have longer captions | VentureBeat | Apps | by Ken Yeung
Snapchat has released an update that gives you more characters for captions on your snaps. The company said that it has “more than doubled” the amount of characters you could have from the 33 you were limited to before.
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How to Build Your Brand Name Through Social Media: A Primer
Late to the social media party? Here's how to start.
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What Does Twitter’s Algorithmic Feed Mean for Social Marketing? - Fortune
Last week saw a major shift in the new media landscape, as Twitter switched all of its users to a so-called “algorithmic feed.” That means users will be more likely to see tweets that match their own preferences, rather than just the most recent ones. At the same time, Instagram was reported to be testing similar changes.
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16 apps that will seriously raise your Instagram game
Take your Instagram posts to the next level with these 16 powerful apps for creating the perfect photos and videos.
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Things are heating up between Facebook and Snapchat
Reuters Pictures/Carlos Garcia Rawlins and Steve Jennings/Stringer/Getty ImagesSnapchat CEO Evan Spiegel (left) and Facebook CEO Mark ZuckerbergWhen Facebook
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4 social media marketing trends that won’t go away
Ten years ago, Facebook was a shaky fad. Today, its market cap is almost a third of a trillion dollars. So why isn’t your organization live-streaming on Periscope yet?
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6 Things You Must Do to Be Successful With Social Media | Inc.com
It seems like social media has gotten too big to manage. Expert Joel Comm shows there are still ways for anyone to leverage it for success.
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4 Mindsets That Could Doom Your Social Media Marketing Efforts | Digital Book World
In a blog post for Digital Book World, Chris Syme shows authors how to sell books through social media marketing.
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Top 10 Lists of Tools to Manage Social Media Marketing Effectively | TECHNOBEEP
Whether you have a multinational or a soloprenuer enterprise, it’s difficult to manage a social media marketing (SMM) program without using a third
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Scaling Your Social Media Marketing - Tips for Startups | Social Media Today
While large operations have the luxury of being able to dedicate entire teams to their social media marketing campaigns, startups simply don't have that option. Here's some tips on how to maximize the time you do have to plan your social marketing efforts
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Facebook Video Ads: Everything You Need To Know - Forbes
Gone are the days when video was just the forgotten step child of Facebook marketing, not even worthy of being called the 'Robin' to the image ads' 'Batman.'
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25 Influencers Share Their Marketing Predictions for 2016
The second month of 2016 is almost over and here we are with a bunch of useful bits of information from top influencers.
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How To Sell On Instagram: Emerging Trends and Platform
Emerging Instagram trends and tools for every business owner. Learn to master the skills of social selling.
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6 social media trends we’re watching in 2016
The course of social media marketing never did run smooth. The top platforms now could disappear tomorrow, marketing strategies that worked previously could suddenly backfire and drive customers away. But with over 2 billion social network users around the globe...
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My Little Sister Taught Me How To “Snapchat Like The Teens”
I’m 29 years old, and I’ve been on Snapchat for about a year now. I post fairly often (usually on my Story), and I get a decent amount of engagement from my friends. Quite honestly, up until Thanksgiving, I thought I was pretty good at Snapchat.
Then I watched my little sister on Snapchat.
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Starting Your First Social Campaign? Check These Best Practices First
Before you begin, be sure to heed these social media campaign best practices so your campaign doesn't actually drive people away from you.
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Timing Is Everything: Twitter Unveils First View Ads, Videos At The Top Of Your Timeline | TechCrunch
Twitter has been in the spotlight for the past several days over allegedly imminent (longstanding) plans to change the order of Tweets in your timeline...
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LG Is Staffing a Social Media War Room With 30 to 40 People for the Super Bowl | Adweek
Some brands are backing away from social media war rooms, but first-time Super Bowl advertiser LG is going all in on Sunday. About 30 to 40 reps from LG, Mindshare, iCrossing, HG Ad and Twitter will staff a war room in Mindshare's New York office, work
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Facebook Video Ads: Everything You Need To Know - Forbes
Gone are the days when video was just the forgotten step child of Facebook marketing, not even worthy of being called the 'Robin' to the image ads' 'Batman.'
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The definitive list of what everyone likes on Facebook | The Verge
Last week, Facebook made public a huge trove of data about its users’ interests as part of a new tool called Audience Optimization. For the first time it revealed not only the hundreds of thousands...
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16 Instagram Accounts That Can Teach You to Be a Better Leader
400 million monthly active users, forecasted to bring in $2.81 billion in ad revenue by 2017, can't be wrong.
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Twitter's darkest hour is now
In late October, after his first full quarter running Twitter as CEO, Jack Dorsey and his executive team just couldn't shut up about Twitter Moments, a new curation tool intended to make the long struggling social network more appealing to new users.
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The differences between what men and women search on Pinterest
Pinterest shares what men and women are searching most.
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10 hidden tricks to get the most out of Facebook Messenger
We've rounded up 10 of our favorite hidden tricks that will help you get the most out of Messenger.
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CMO Today: Twitter Weighs 10,000-Character Tweets - WSJ
Here's your morning roundup of the biggest marketing, advertising and media industry news and happenings.
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7 Tips to Boost Your Business's Social Media Strategy | Social Media Today
Over 46 percent of the Earth’s population uses the Internet. Today, a lion’s share of that Internet usage is done through social media networks. As such, marketing campaigns must have a social media component to succeed. However, despite this, many
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How to Measure Your Social Media Campaigns in the Real World | Social Media Today
The biggest challenge to managing and measuring your social media campaigns is knowing what metrics are truly important to your business. But that question is critical - this post outlines five actionable metrics every social media campaign should track
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5 Social-Media Opportunities Businesses Mostly Overlook
Surprisingly few companies are taking full advantage of what social media offers.
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Facebook Launches A Big Improvement To It's Events Feature
Finally, there's way more than RSVP.
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Why Running Ads on Both Facebook and Instagram Is Likely to Be the New Normal
Advertisers have their best chance yet to double flank consumers on social media as Instagram continues to expand its advertising capabilities by building on what Facebook started long ago. Instagram has said it plans to work with 100 companies around the
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10 Powerful Tips to Increase Fan Engagement on Facebook
Facebook is the social network preferred by most businesses when planning and implementing their social media marketing strategy. It is the most powerful social network on the planet. So how can you harness its power and increase fan engagement on your Fa
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How to Master the 21 Social-Media Conversations You Will Face
On social media, whether you're a business, a brand, or an individual, you'll likely come across plenty of different conversations -- each presenting a unique challenge
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Vine's new feature lets you grab audio from any Vine to make your own
Want the Duck Army sound for your Vine? It's now as simple as tapping two icons.
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Zuckerberg: Facebook will use safety check for 'more human disasters'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the social network would use the feature in "more human disasters going forward as well."
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10 Powerful Tips to Increase Fan Engagement on Facebook
Facebook is the social network preferred by most businesses when planning and implementing their social media marketing strategy. It is the most powerful social network on the planet. So how can you harness its power and increase fan engagement on your Fa
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This Is Why You're Seeing More Ads On Instagram
If you're starting to notice more ads on Instagram, it's all part of Facebook's plan.
Facebook, the world's largest social network, has steadily built its advertising business to become the world's second-largest digital ad platform after Google.
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6 Principles That Must Be Applied to Social Media Marketing
Learn the key principles of direct response marketing that you need to follow on all social media platforms.
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5 Ways Google Analytics Finds You Relevant Topics for Your Social-Media Campaign
Use this tool to determine exactly what your readers want more of.
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Twitter's Newest Executive Tweeted Only 8 Times Before Taking the Job - ABC News
You could say he's making up for lost time.
Twitter's new executive chairman, Omid Kordestani, tweeted just eight times before accepting the position this week. Kordestani has an impressive resume, having worked at tech giants such as Netscape and Google, but he rarely used the service until he was officially named chairman Wednesday.
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How Brand Ambassadors Make Social... More Social
People are social beings. So why is it that most corporate social postings are both irrelevant and anonymous? Putting a personal, social component into your social marketing is imperative to engaging 2-way communication.
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Facebook notifications get Google-inspired update
Facebook's notifications will now let users see personalised updates based on location or favourite TV shows
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10 Things to Do Right Now So You'll Kill It on Facebook on Monday | Inc.com
There are some basic things you can start doing now to increase your odds of engaging Facebook fans--and getting business.
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Hashtag hijacking doesn't have to live and die on Twitter | ClickZ
Brands tweet about trending topics all the time, but they don't always use the platform's powerful reach in order to promote themselves beyond a Twitter conversation.
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The Dos and Don'ts of LinkedIn Marketing
A few years ago, LinkedIn was a teeny tiny networking site for professionals. How times have changed! The professional network now has more than 380 million users from around the world. Professionals…
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Mashable: Our reactions to Facebook 'Reactions'
On this week's MashTalk, we discuss Facebook Reactions, Twitter Moments and Microsoft's best presentation in years.
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With Reactions, Facebook Supercharges The Like Button With 6 Empathetic Emoji | TechCrunch
In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made some waves when he hinted Facebook was working on a way to expand its famous Like button -- not by adding..
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How Facebook Is Making It Easier to Generate Sales Leads Among Mobile Phone Users | Adweek
Filling out forms is a cringe-worthy chore for most people. And that's why lead-generation marketing—the art and science of getting consumers to take five or 10 minutes to write up or type out personal information—has always been a tough gig.
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Twitter Plans to Go Beyond Its 140-Character Limit | Re/code
Twitter is thinking about ways to tweak the 140-character limit to entice new users.
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Don't believe that privacy hoax all over your Facebook feed
Sound the alarms: Facebook is about to start charging a monthly fee to keep your data private! It's all over your News Feed, so it must be true!
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8 Common Facebook Mistakes Social Media Managers Need To Avoid
Social media managers are faced with the task to tackle Facebook. Here are some Facebook mistakes social media managers should avoid.
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How Long Does It Take for Social Media Marketing to Start Paying Off? | Social Media Today
​You’ve got your Twitter account going and you’ve made a few good jokes. You’ve garnered a few followers on Facebook. Every day, you put a little time into yours social channels. How long until you start seeing some actual sales or conversions?
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The art of nailing low-cost, high-conversion social media ads - The American Genius
Social media ads can be a low-cost, high-yield business builder, and most don't do it well. Here is the art of nailing it!
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Facebook users express concerns over possible 'dislike' button | VentureBeat | Social | by Reuters
Facebook users took to the social media site on Wednesday to react to the company’s decision to test what Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg called a “dislike button” – and not everyone liked the idea.
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Is Your Company Making These 5 Crucial Mistakes on Social Media?
Even when you're not there to guide them, conversations are happening about your brand -- and they aren't always pretty.
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10 Reasons to Create a Facebook Group Today
Facebook Groups can be a GREAT way to extend the reach of your customer base, get new customers and build relationships for business. However,
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How Social Media Would Have Changed Hurricane Katrina Coverage
WASHINGTON -- The streets of Algiers Point, a mostly white enclave nestled in a predominantly black New Orleans neighborhood, were not safe. White militias blocked off most of the area’s streets, posted
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Is Hybrid Content Marketing the Latest Trend? | Social Media Today
Recently, we decided to do something that would take our content marketing to the next level: We combined our content marketing efforts with a tightly focused Facebook advertising strategy. This is what I like to call hybrid content marketing.
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Twitter adds desktop notifications to direct messages on the web
Twitter's direct messages via the web just got more useful. Today the social network will start rolling out DM notifications for its site which will be availabl...
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Go to 'social media bootcamp' so you can stay on top of digital trends
More than ever before, brands are turning to social media platforms, like Facebook and Instagram, to boost their revenue and engagement numbers.
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Adobe introduces new social photo tools to help your puppy pictures go viral | VentureBeat | Media | by Chris O'Brien
Adobe announced today that it will be rolling out some app updates to help marketers create eye-catching social photos and videos.
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Chat away: Twitter removes 140-character limit for direct messages - CNET
The social network now allows users to chat privately without feeling constrained by a space limit. Blabbermouths, however, will get cut off at 10,000 characters.
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You’ll Soon Be Able To Buy Stuff Directly From Twitter | TIME
The best memes of the Time magazine cover featuring Oculus Rift inventor and Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey
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Inside the sad, expensive failure of Google+
Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief arch...
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15 New Social-Media Templates to Save You Even More Time With Your Marketing
Imagine having a quick and fast way to get up to speed with social media or to get your work done in less time. You can -- with the right set of tools.
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Reddit says it will hide but not ban hate communities
Reddit Co-Founder and new CEO Steve Huffman has just laid out a host of changes to the websites content policy. He cites the company's earlier banning of non-co...
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Photos from inside Tumblr's quirky office in New York City - Business Insider
Take a tour of Tumblr's offices, where you can drink beer on tap or do yoga on the roof deck.
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How To Quickly Master Social Media Marketing For Small Business
According to a new study, one in six marriages that began in the last three years has resulted from an interaction that started online. At the same time, Nielsen also reports that four out of every five corporations in America are now leveraging social me
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Social Media Marketing Is The Top Priority For Brands In 2015 [REPORT]
Brands are betting big on social media marketing in 2015. The recent study highlights how marketers are leveraging on Facebook, Twitter etc
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4 Apps You Need to Master the Art of Instagram: The Daily Details: Blog : Details
If you’re going to share your life on Instagram, share the best version. That means moving beyond using built-in filters like Valencia and X-Pro II and taking advantage of apps that’ll bring your ‘gram game to the next level.
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Online Petition Calling for Ellen Pao's Dismissal From Reddit Gathers More Than 100,000 Signatures
Users became upset when the site apparently fired the moderator of the popular
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Instagram photos are now bigger and better
Just over a week ago, I wrote plaintively about Instagram's archaic 640 x 640 resolution and the need to move with the times and give users the ability to upload larger images. This past Friday, it...
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The 5 Most Meaningful Google Analytics Reports for Social Media
We've identified the 5 most useful and meaningful Google Analytics reports that social media marketers can start using today. Plus, a free dashboard!
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Take a look at the brand new Facebook logo changed for the first time since 2005
Take a look at the brand new Facebook logo! Well, it’s generally new. The blue color and letters “k” and “f” is absolutely the same. In fact the new thing about this logo is the nagging sense of something being not quite right when you look at it.
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Facebook continues to â€borrow’ Snapchat features as it tests swipeable filters, stickers & text overlays in iOS
Facebook has rather a long history of finding inspiration in the Snapchat app, from Poke back in 2012 (which was pulled last month) to Slingshot. TechCrunch reports that the company is now testing ...
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This Site Is Running Facebook Ads About Creepy Facebook Ads | TIME
Ello is running Facebook ads that target you based on your browsing history and other metrics that Facebook tracks.
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Instagram Gets Newsy With Trends And Place Search For Exploring Anything, Anywhere | TechCrunch
Instagram has real-time coverage of almost everything happening in the world. Now its unlocking that content with a revamped Explore tab featuring Trending..
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How I Manage a Social-Media Platform of More Than 11 Million Followers Every Day
Big or small, influencer or newcomer, everyone looking to get more followers and more likes on social media seeks out strategies that work. Here's how one expert does it.
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Twitter is building a news platform that lets you follow events instead of people | The Verge
Right now, tracking major stories and events on Twitter requires a certain level of knowledge about how Twitter works. Identifying the right hashtags and right sources is still work. The company...
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How To Use Instagram For Business: A Beginner’s Guide
Learn how to build a corporate Instagram strategy, setting up your account, and best practices for Instagram for business.
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7 mistakes companies are making on social right now
Gone are the days when marketing professionals question the value of their company having a presence on social networks. Regardless of if the company is B2B, B2C, or any combination of the two – their customers are on social because EVERYONE is on socia
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How to Create Viral Moments on Social Media
Alberto Perlman, CEO of Zumba Fitness, explains why it's important to remember that you're dealing with real people on social media.
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The ultimate guide to hashtags on Social Media | Blog | Twitter Counter
Have you ever wondered why we actually use hashtags on social media and how they can help your social media marketing?
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Facebook's experiment to publish news articles has gotten awfully quiet — three weeks after everyone was freaking out about it
There have been no new Facebook Instant Articles since the product's launch 3 weeks ago.
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Pinterest Tries to Ditch the â€Social Network’ Label | Re/code
Pinterest isn't social -- it's all about me, myself and I. Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann said that while his five-year-old startup has social elements — you can re-pin an image or send someone a private message — he doesn’t view the company as a social network
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Snapchat Hires New Programming Head To Boost Original Content Efforts
Ephemeral messaging app company Snapchat has hired Marcus Wiley as new Head of Program Planning and Development.
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5 Advanced Social Media Advertising Strategies From the Experts
Get inspiration for your social media advertising strategies from the marketers who have been exactly where you are now. Here are 5 things to consider.
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Social Media Marketing Beyond Twitter and Facebook | ClickZ
In advance of her session at ClickZ Live Toronto, Chief Marketing Officer of shopbake.com, Anastassia Boguslavskaya chats to us about how marketers should look beyond the social media giants to engage customers.
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How to spend just $100 on a social media budget
The industry average spend for social media budget is $7,000 a day. But in this piece, we'll show you to do it with $100.
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Facebook wants you to play games in Messenger - Here's Why
Facebook has confirmed it is in talks with several developers to make games for Messenger. It's currently unclear how exactly these games will work with the messaging app and when the first games might arrive.
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Facebook's new Instant Articles let you share directly to Twitter and Pinterest | VentureBeat | Media | by Paul Sawers
The first of Facebook’s Instant Articles is now live, so if you’re following The New York Times, you’ll see the article appear in your feed at some point.
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How I Grew My Facebook Traffic by 200% in 60 Days
Facebook is the single biggest driver of traffic among all social media platforms. Not by a little, but by a big margin. And secondly, we recently discovered a simple way to grow our Facebook traffic by 200%.
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Facebook test allows users to curate their own News Feed
Facebook is testing a revolutionary feature that gives you the power to choose which friends you'd like to see prominently displayed on your News Feed. A
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Why The Customers Who Don't Convert Are Immensely Important
I love Warby Parker, but I’ll never buy a pair because I have 20/20 vision. My boss reads the Buffer blog daily, but she’s never used the tool a day in her life. We’re brand fans, part of an enormous audience of advocates you may be missing out on.
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How to Turn Data Into Content Ideas (and Avoid Content Marketing Flops) | Social Media Today
Sometimes I wish I had a fairy godmother for content ideas. How nice would it be if someone was around to relieve the stress of brainstorming by pulling brilliant ideas out of thin air? In reality, marketers don’t need magical entities to help generate
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Twitter gives control of its hapless marketing department to its chief financial officer | The Verge
As an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, Anthony Noto orchestrated Twitter's initial public offering. Now Noto is Twitter's chief financial officer, and he's changing the score again, moving the...
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Social media buying media companies: How Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat plan to take over online news.
This post originally appeared on Business Insider. In late November, Twitter CFO Anthony Noto accidentally sent a public tweet he'd rather have kept private. "I still think we should buy them," his tweet, which has since been deleted, read. &q
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How to Spend a Social Media Budget
Imagine you have $100 to spend on social media marketing. What's the best way to spend your budget? We've shared three perspectives here.
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How To Solve 6 Common Facebook Frustrations
If you're a Facebook user, you know that Facebook updates their software to introduce new features that claim to improve your experience -- and they do it without warning....
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How and When To Post On Social Media
To achieve your social media benchmarks, you need to understand what type of content will resonate in specific verticals, and when.
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What the Apple Watch Can Teach Us About Social Marketing
Digital marketers are constantly on the alert for the Next Big Thing. Each time a social media channel gains rapid membership or a new iPhone rolls out, it's evaluation time. Is the audience there to
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10 Ways to Humanize Your Social Media Brand
To be successful on social media, your brand needs to come across as authentic, not robotic. Here are 10 ways to achieve that.
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Meet The Company Secretly Running All Your Favourite Social Media Accounts - BuzzFeed News
A group of twentysomethings in Manchester are taking over Twitter in Britain, and making hundreds of thousands of pounds in the process....
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The Complete Social Media Post Checklist
When writing your social media posts for your business, there are a whole bunch of things you need to consider. Here Kevan Lee runs through the essentials
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Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign didn't launch on Twitter and that's totally fine | VentureBeat | Social | by Harrison Weber
Yes, Hillary Clinton is officially running for president. No, she didn’t announce the news first on Twitter.
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5 Ways to Use Data to Inform Your Social Media Marketing Strategy
As illustrated in last week’s post, being data focused can help support your intuition as a marketer and ensure your efforts are reaping results for your business. The same logic applies to your so…
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Facebook tracks all visitors, breaching EU law: report
Exclusive: Social network even sets a new cookie to track untracked EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking
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Facebook explains why it needs Instagram, WhatsApp, AND Messenger - Business Insider
In a panel discussion at this week's Facebook F8 developer event, the head honchos behind Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram sat down to explain why the social network owns and operates three apps that compete with its own core business.
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Twitter Marketing: How Brands Can Rise to the Top of the Stream #SMMW15
What are brands doing to rise to the top of the Twitter stream? Marketers from Microsoft, BMC Software and Renaissance Hotels at Social Media Marketing World (#SMMW15) explained what has been working in their social media world.
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75 Things I Learned on My Journey to 100,000 Twitter Followers |
It was early 2009, and I was still working in the walls of corporate America. I saw the power of the tweet, what it could do for my career, business and life.
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11 Shocking New Social Media Statistics in America | Convince and Convert: Social Media Strategy and Content Marketing S
Social media statistics from The Social Habit by Edison Research includes several very interesting data points about Facebook, Twitter and beyond. Free download
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7 Facebook Advertising Myths debunked
When we started working on AdEspresso, one of my biggest concerns was that small to medium size businesses were not yet ready for it. And I don’t mean ready for an alternative to Facebook’s Ads Manager but for advertising on Facebook at all. Most user
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50 Favorite Marketing, Social, and Productivity Blogs
Where do Buffer blog readers go in addition to the Buffer blog? Here's a list of 50 favorite blogs for marketing, social media, productivity, and more.
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The 29 Rules Of Social Media - And Which Ones To Break
The rules of social media are often set in stone, but Kevan Lee argues, there are some that are better off being broken
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7 Strategies To Achieve Great Things On Social Media
Seven great strategies that will help give you results when it comes to social media
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Google may finally liberate Photos and Hangouts from Google+ | The Verge
The current iteration of Google+ may not be around for much longer. In an extensive interview with Forbes, Google's product czar Sundar Pichai says the company may break out features like Photos...
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Super Simple Social Media Strategy: Get Big Results - Heidi Cohen
Want to get your business's social media activity on track to yield results? Then follow this 10 step social media marketing cycle with tips.
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9 of the Best Free Social Media Analytics Tools
Want to know what’s working on social media? Word-of-mouth advertising is very powerful. You need to earn the trust of your audience so they will recommend your products or services to their friend…
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Social Media Marketing To Increase 126 Percent In 5 Years
Social media marketing is a trend that no progressive brand can ignore anymore, despite the natural conservatism of larger companies.
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US government wants to get better at social media to fight ISIS propaganda | The Verge
The US government isn't just fighting ISIS on the ground — it's also been battling the terrorist group online, trying to counteract ISIS' propaganda with messaging of its own. But those efforts...
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Why Apple Started Selling Apps Through Pinterest | Co.Design
Pinterest now has a button for direct app downloads. Here's why.
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Pinterest bans affiliate links, moves towards 'buy' button | Articles | Home
The visual social media platform—along with Facebook and Twitter—are introducing changes that will affect brands and how they engage online.
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What's Wrong With Your Social Media Marketing Plan?
Have you noticed that your content is not being shared? Is there something wrong with your social media marketing plan? Here's some professional advice.
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Twitter sucks at dealing with trolls and CEO says it's all his fault
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo says he's ashamed of the company's failures when it comes to getting rid of trolls and protecting users from abuse.
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Katy Perry upstaged by 'Left Shark' - social media nearly explodes
Who stole the headlines at Super Bowl XLIX? Tom Brady, Malcolm Butler or maybe even Bill Belichick? Nope. It was the Super Bowl Shark.
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Snapchat's Not So Social Bet on Content
Snapchat's Discover feature is a big gamble in the long run for not just the company, but for the brands and publishers behind that content as well.
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15 Social Media Blogs That’ll Make You a Better Online Marketer
15 social media blogs that will make you a better marketer. I subscribe to a bunch of blogs so I get posts from them, but the truth is, there’s just too much content out there to keep up with it all. Still, as social media marketers, it’s part of our job to stay up-to-date with the latest and greatest.
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Facebook, Tinder, Instagram suffer widespread issues: all go down at once!
Facebook, Tinder and Instagram users are experiencing issues with the social media platform on Tuesday.
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Pinterest wants more men -- and it'll filter out the girly stuff for them | VentureBeat
No more ladies’ hairstyles when a man searches for “men’s short hair” — well, OK, fewer ladies’ hairstyles.
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Where your brand is going wrong with social media | Media Network | The Guardian
Incentivise your followers, go easy on the business-speak and spend time interacting, chatting and laughing with your fans, advises Rosie Spaughton
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Tumblr and Pinterest now fastest-growing social platforms
Even though Facebook maintains its reigning status as the largest social network, it has some quickly growing challengers: Tumblr and Pinterest.
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Facebook may be the big winner of this year's Super Bowl
This might be the first year in which views of Super Bowl ads on Facebook eclipse those of YouTube.
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How to Be Creative AND Brand Compliant in Social Marketing
Maintaining a consistent brand identity with social media marketing is vital for long-term business growth. Learn to flex your creative social muscle within
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3 things to know about marketing to Generation Z
Generation X became Generation Y. Millennials are growing up. And now marketers are shifting focus to "Gen Z" — the next major consumer group, comprised of teenagers who are younger than 19 today. This generation has grown up with full access to the Internet and technology. They're digital natives, and it's even tougher for brands to woo this group and win their loyalty, love and income.
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4 ways social media drives business development
In today's digital world, social media can accelerate the relationship-building process. An influx of social media over the past decade — from Facebook to LinkedIn — has enhanced the way we communicate with potential business partners, leading to quicker connections and serving as our primary method of research when looking to establish relationships.
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Americans Use More Online Social Networks - NYTimes.com
More than half of American Internet users log onto at least two social networks regularly, according a new research survey. While Facebook remains the dominant network, other networks like Instagram and Pinterest are growing in popularity.
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Social Media: Stop it With Pointless Metrics!
Online marketing is of course a new phenomena, when compared with most other forms of marketing, and with it being in its infancy we’ve all got to be prepared to adapt to new ways of thinking on a regular basis. That’s not a bad thing, it just means t
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10 Great Social-Media Strategies to Boost Your Results and Save You Time
There's no shortage of intriguing new social media strategies. Here's a look at some that can improve your results -- fast.
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3 Ways To Engage Customers Through Social Media
Most companies have embraced social media as part of their marketing mix, but they don’t always understand what makes it successful. That means their efforts are often through trial and error. So how can organizations make sure their social campaigns ar
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Social Media Analytics Reveal 2014 Holiday Shopping Trends and Insights
While recovering from the holiday rush, retailers can look back at this season’s trends to discover new ways to fuel customer engagement and drive loyalty in the next year. Using real-time analytics, SAP uncovered a wealth of insights about con
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2014's Biggest Mobile Advertising Developments | Adweek
Fueled by new ad formats and acquisitions from Facebook, Twitter and brands, mobile marketing finally began to step up to its potential this year. From messaging and video to ultra-targeted ads and simplified shopping, smartphones and tablets became a m
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Facebook apologizes after 'Year in Review' stirs up bad memories for some users
While scrolling through your Facebook News Feed this holiday season, you probably encountered the typical statuses from friends: photographs of families opening gifts and inevitably, a few "Year in Review" posts, a photo slide of highlights from your Facebook Timeline over the past year.
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Dueling hashtags of dissent as protesters march in New York following NYPD shooting
Dueling hashtags took over Twitter on Sunday as protesters marched in New York following a Saturday shooting of two NYPD officers.
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Facebook Needs To Prove It Can Drive Store Purchases
Facebook has become increasingly driven to correlate ad impressions on its platform with in-store purchases, seeing these cross-channel analytics as vital to its further growth as a marketing platform.
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How Freelancers Should Create LinkedIn Profiles
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Joshua Waldman As a professional LinkedIn profile writer, our company often gets clients who have been consultants or freelancers for some length of time. Often, they don’t know how to best represent their f...
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Twitter, Foursquare may team up to add location to tweets - CNET
If the social networks reach a deal, tweets could include location information -- such as a country, city or venue -- as early as next year, reports Business Insider.
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Instagram Updated with New Filters and Design
Just when you thought you had enough filters, Instagram goes and adds more along with an updated design and a whole slew of other new and improved features. Today the make-your-photos-look-better-than-they-are…
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Why You Should Forget Facebook - Jeffbullas's Blog
Has Facebook got you fooled? Are you chasing likes for your brand page? Paying for fans? Maybe it's time to forget Facebook!
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Study finds social media use beneficial to overall health of elderly | Media | The Guardian
Report studied elderly and vulnerable people in UK and Italy using Skype, Facebook and other social media tools
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Instagram hits 300M users, now bigger than Twitter | Fox News
Instagram just keeps on growing – the Facebook owned media-sharing service said Wednesday its user base now stands at 300 million, leaving Twitter, with its 284 million users, in the dust.Â
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10 Ways to Improve your Social Media Marketing
With so many brands competing for attention online, your content needs to be engaging, inspiring and relevant; with a strong enough hook to pr...
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5 Social Media Hacks Every Marketer Should Know
So many boundaries limit marketers and their social media goals. No GIFs on Facebook. No buy buttons on Pinterest. Fortunately, there are plenty of creative workarounds. Marketers are doing whatever they can to upgrade their social media tactics, even if
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9 Mistakes Businesses Make on Social Media (Infographic)
Over the past few years, I’ve created social media content and strategies for some of the world’s largest and most influential companies. I’ve also helped some friends tackle social media for their small businesses. I have come to the following conclusion: Social media can be really difficult.
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Twitter Has No Short-Term Plans To Monetize Vine | TechCrunch
Twitter has no short-term plans to monetize Vine, a social product that it purchased in its infancy. The information was shared during the company's..
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Facebook Unveils Its Own Anonymous App
Facebook's newest standalone app lets users create themed, anonymous chat rooms.
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Viral By Design: 3 Social Media Secrets - Heidi Cohen
Viral social media success-3 tips straight out of Upworthy's playbook to improve your chances with each share. Includes data and charts.
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Creator of the Facebook 'Like' explains why you'll never get a 'Dislike' button | TechRadar
Creator of the Facebook 'Like' explains why you'll never get a 'Dislike' button
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Pinterest Vs Facebook and Google - Business Insider
A few of Facebook's former monetization executives have joined Pinterest, including Jonathan Shottan and Tim Kendall. Kendall was Facebook's head of monetization from 2006 to 2010, and now he's head of product at Pinterest.
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Mark Zuckerberg Buys 700 Acres In Hawaii For More Than $100 Million
Zuckerberg is on a buying spree.
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114-Year-Old Woman Has To Lie About Age To Join Facebook
We can think of plenty of reasons people would lie about their age -- pride, vanity, or to get into the coolest club. But Anna Stoehr's reason was much, much simpler: she just wanted to join Facebook. The centenarian who just celebrated her 114th...
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Twitter gives away Tweets, so why does Facebook's apology ring hollow?
It's fine for one social network to give away your data in the name of research, while another's ongoing experiments seem distasteful.
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Facebook advanced privacy settings: how to go invisible | BGR
Those Facebook users looking to make their social networking experience more private without ditching Zuckerberg’s empire in favor of something else should know there’s a way to do this, at least according to Business Insider.
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Rethink Your LinkedIn Strategy: 6 Benefits Of Treating It More Like Twitter
When you limit your LinkedIn network to only connections you personally know, you limit your overall networking potential.
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Reddit Declares Itself a â€Government’ | | Betabeat
Reddit CEO Yishan Wong said in a blog post after the closing of The Fappening subreddit that Reddit was a new kind of government.
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Is Social Media Worth It For Small Businesses?
For many small businesses, social media feels like a never-ending party where attendance alone is insufficient – one must make a Big, Continuous Splash. That pressure produces a classic, if disappointing, effort/reward imbalance for many small businesse
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What happens when your friends start leaving Facebook? - Telegraph
Theo Merz followed his friends onto the social networking site, and now he’s following them out. How did it come to this?
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Twitter Changes Font, Provides More Profile Color Options
Twitter has announced several new design changes -- but not everyone is happy about them.
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Facebook suffers brief, widespread outage
The social media giant went dark for many users Wednesday afternoon, though it was back for most within about 20 minutes.
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Reddit Users Get Remorse Over Nude Pictures, Try Donating to Charity
Redditors attempt to redeem themselves after sharing leaked celebrity photos.
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Debating Politics On Facebook, Where Silence Implies Dissent
When Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, he designed it to be a nicer place than the real world. People you barely know are "friends"; people you have drinks with now and then, "close friends." You get a notification if someone deems you
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â€Ice Bucket Challenge’ Has Raised Millions for ALS Association
The “Ice Bucket Challenge,” a campaign to raise money to fight Lou Gehrig’s disease, has caught fire on social media, with celebrities drenching themselves in ice water.
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6 Quick Social Media Productivity Tips & 23 Tools to Help!
6 quick social media productivity tips and 23 tools to help in making your social media more productive!
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Facebook Forces Users Worldwide To Download Messenger For Mobile Chat | TechCrunch
Over the next few days, Facebook will stop allowing messaging in its main iPhone and Android apps, and force all their users around the world to download its..
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UCLA Flood Erupts Into Social Media Explosion
A busted water main pipe which flooded Westwood, California and mostly UCLA, with up to 20 million gallons of water (originally reported at 10 million by KTLA), turned into a social media frenzy on Tuesday with over 15,000 tweets over the course of a few
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The Average American Spends 40 Minutes a Day on Facebook - NBC News.com
Americans waste a lot of time on Facebook. How much time? Around 40 minutes every single day, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who shared the stat during We...
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The First-Ever Submissions to 6 Social Media Sites
Looking back at the humble beginnings can be fun; often the first posts are mundane and otherwise insignificant.
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How Kevin Systrom Controls Every Ad on Instagram
ASPEN — Photo-sharing network Instagram still hasn't fully rolled out its strategy for selling ads on the service. But CEO and cofounder Kevin Systrom has revealed that he has an unusual and unprecedented amount of control over photo ads before they go up on the service.
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The 7 Key Ingredients of a Powerful Twitter Bio
The way you describe yourself on Twitter has everything to do with how people perceive you online. So how the heck do you do it right?
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We say we don't trust sponsored content. But, oh, how we click on it
Today, Contently published a survey of 542 Americans between the ages of 18-65, polling them on their feelings toward sponsored content. The feeling was overwhelmingly negative. Two-thirds of the p...
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Growing your Small Business in social networks
Learn the advantages of growing your small business in social networks and stay up to date with your social media strategy.
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5 Ways to Ensure Blogging Failure and How to Avoid Them
The vast majority of blogs are failures. Many of these mistakes are taught by blogging “gurus” Here are 5 ways to blogging failure you need to avoid
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How to Beat Facebook: 11 Algorithm-Fighting Workarounds to Get Your Post Visibility Back
Facebook's organic post visibility is falling every month and is growing ever closer to zero. These 11 Facebook anti-algorithm tactics will help get your fan engagement back.
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5 Content Marketing Lessons You Don’t Want to Learn the Hard Way - Jeffbullas's Blog
Content marketing isn’t rocket science, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. This is a collection of content marketing lessons I’ve learned the hard way
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'LinkedIn falls flat on consumer engagement’ | News | Marketing Week
Marketers should be using the social network for brand awareness rather than engagement, says report.
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How Favoriting a Tweet Has Replaced Retweeting as the Most Powerful Marketing Tool on Twitter
Ok, I agree. Even I rolled my eyes after reading my own title. Sounds like another silly Twitter post trying to tell me that something as simple and trivial as a Twitter favorite is really a secret...
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How to Plan Your Tweets For Engagement vs. Site Traffic | Simply Measured
“The top time to Tweet is XYZ.” We’ve all heard this. Whether you’re Tweeting in the morning, the afternoon, or the evening, you’re doing it wrong…because everyone has an opinion about the top time to Tweet. But that
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Twitter Is Experimenting With A New Way To Retweet | TechCrunch
The best thing about Twitter is that it forces users to embrace brevity thanks to its 140-character updates. It's also the worst thing about Twitter, turning..
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When's the Best Day and Time to Post on Social Media?
It's the age-old content marketing question: when's the best day and time to post on social media? Here's the scoop on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and
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Silicon Beach Fest: What Facebook admins can learn about content marketing - Inside Facebook
Speaking at Silicon Beach Fest on Thursday in Santa Monica, Calif., panelists from Demand Media, Experian (which manages a Facebook Preferred Marketing Developer in Alchemy Social) and Outbrain discussed how brands think about developing and marketing con
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Here’s the Twitter Tracking Tool More People Should Know About
An easy way to track bio changes on Twitter.
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JFK Library to Use Kennedy's Words to Tweet About Current Events
More than 50 years after his untimely death, Kennedy has joined Twitter. And we’ll finally know where he stands on the bigger issues of our Twittering times. Well, sort of.
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Raise Your 'Hashflags': Twitter Reintroduces World Cup Hashtags
The hashflag has returned in all its emoji glory for this year's World Cup.
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10 of the Most Annoying Things People Have to Stop Doing on Social in 2014
Gosh, I hate posts like this. Not only is it somewhat of a rant, and if you follow me online, you must have realized that I am highly allergic to negativity, but it is also about annoying things pe...
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The CIA has joined Twitter with the best first tweet possible
The US government loves Twitter. For NASA, it's a public relations goldmine. For the State Department, it's a bizarre weapon in the fight on terrorism. For the CIA, it's a chance to revel in...
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Myspace Is Embarrassing Users With Old Photos to Win Them Back
Myspace wants you back — even if it requires a little blackmail.
The social network is emailing users old photos of themselves in hopes of enticing them to return to Myspace. The emails include one or two old photos and a line that reads, "The good, the rad and the what were you thinking..." along with a link that takes users to their profile.
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How to block TV spoilers on Facebook and Twitter!
If you're a Chrome user, the Spoiler Shield extension will help you
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Will Twitter Plateau By 2018?
By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc's messaging service will have close to 400 million global users by 2018, mostly in Asia, Latin American and the Middle East, consulting firm eMarketer estimated on Tuesday, far short o...
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BBC News staff told 'don't do anything stupid' on social media
Warning comes after tweet by news channel editor Jasmine Lawrence branded Ukip racist and sexist. By Tara Conlan
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'Game of Thrones' on Social Media: 500,000 Tweets And Counting, Plus A Playlist For Each Of The Seven Kingdoms
VideoForget about the Seven Kingdoms. Game of Thrones is dominating the Twitterverse. Over the past 24 hours, according to data gathered by the analytics firm Crimson Hexagon, Game of Thrones, which aired its season 4 premiere on HBO last night, has
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Everything I Needed To Know About Social Media I Learned From Star Trek - Jeffbullas's Blog
Ever noticed how many business owners look at social media as if it were from space? Here are lessons from Star Trek that I have applied to social media
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Pinterest Is Now Valued at $5 Billion, Despite Little Revenue - Digits - WSJ
Pinterest still makes almost zero revenue, but its valuation is soaring.
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How Smokey Bear found his voice on social media - Digiday
Until he joined social media, the only thing Smokey Bear could say was,
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Reddit Goes Bananas Over Little Boy's Curious Request
Sometimes, it only takes a piece of fruit and a hungry kid to create a new meme.
A curious and hungry young boy named Carter knocked on his neighbor's door in pursuit of a banana. The goods were received, a picture was taken for proof, and Carter left.
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Alan Colmes to George Will: If You Don’t Get Social Media, Don’t Mock It | Mediaite
Fox News contributor Alan Colmes lit into George Will for his criticism of hashtag activism, saying that those who don't understand social media should be more hesitant to mock its efficacy.
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The Psychology of Unfriending Someone on Facebook
Have you ever unfriended someone on Facebook? Be honest. This is a safe blog post. You meanie! How could you do such a thing? It was a high school friend, wasn’t it? She was blathering on about the evils of affirmative action, wasn’t she? Two
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How to validate breaking news in social media
How do you validate breaking news in social media? Two cases lead to 10 tips. Speech of Henk van Ess in Istanbul on April 30, 2014.
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Make Social Media Day Official in Your City This Year
Social Media Day has taken major strides since its launch in 2010. What started as a few hundred Meetup events has become a major global celebration.
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SocialRank is helping brands (and average Joes) discover which of their Twitter followers really matter
With all the Twitter analytics tools in the market, there are more ways to slice and dice the conversations that take place on the platform than there are to understand the people behind those conv...
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Is Tumblr Enjoying A Post-Acquisition Growth Spurt? Not So Fast.
It's been a year since Tumblr became property of Yahoo. How's it holding up? The New York Times checks in and concludes: pretty well.
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Meet Swarm: Foursquare's ambitious plan to split its app in two
By Ben Popper and Ellis Hamburger. Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley has spent the last year trying to convince the world that Foursquare isn't what it used to be. The company emerged back in 2009...
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Facebook Finally Gets Serious About Privacy
Facebook introduced two new features that give users more control over their privacy.
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Forget LinkedIn, Why You'll Find Your Next Job Using Facebook
The social network is seeing a shift away from something to hide from employers, to a tool actively used by job seekers.
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Social Startup Sprinklr Raises $40 Million
More social capital for an analytics and management startup.
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The dramatic politics of social platforms, in one chart
Democrats Tumble, Republicans pin and more trivia from Harvard's latest survey of young adults.
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Google+ Head Vic Gundotra Leaving Company
The high-profile and powerful exec at the search giant will leave immediately, but has no plans to land elsewhere as yet.
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5 Graphic Design Tips for Social Media
Learning the basics of graphic design will help you create stand-out posts for your Facebook page, spread the word with engaging blog graphics and generate pinnable content. There are a few fundamental rules which will help you to create prof...
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Tech author Stibel to Facebook: Shrink or stagnate
Jeff Stibel, a specialist in translational neuroscience, says Facebook needs to start shrinking itself if it wants to grow.
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Mad Men Star Vincent Kartheiser Stays Away From Social Media
Specs Who Vincent Kartheiser Age 34 Accomplishments Stars as Pete Campbell on AMC’s Mad Men (Season 7 airs Sundays at 10/9c); voices Marsh Merriweather on the Fox animated series High School USA! Base Los Angeles What’s the first information you consu
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Twitter’s New Profile Pages Reveal Design Trends, Business Challenges
Last week Twitter started rolling out its latest redesign of user profile pages.
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Twitter's Redesign Makes Photos the Focal Point
Twitter is rolling out revamped profile layouts with broadened images and new features, like the automatic enlargement of top-performing content.
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Mark Zuckerberg's 2011 Comments About Focus Sound Pretty Ironic Today
Mark Zuckerberg has made two shocking...
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On Twitter’s 8th birthday, find your first Tweet | Twitter Blogs
In 2006, people began to say a little something on Twitter through 140-character bursts of plain text. Eight years later, our users have transformed Twitter into place where you can discover new id...
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Why Apple Ignores Social Media
Have you ever wondered why Apple ignores social media? Maybe because they can afford to be.
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Twitter Knows When You're Going To Be Sad, Hungover, And Late For Work
Data from the social network proves that we're all in pretty bad shape come Monday morning.
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Paramount Grounds 'Top Gun' Tweeter
Paramount Pictures is asking Twitter to be its wingman in taking care of an individual who is tweeting Top Gun one frame at a time.
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Social Media Might Have Stymied Shirley Temple's Second Act
The iconic child actress never went to college but became a diplomat. Would such career moves have survived the Twitter airwaves?
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Social media lessons from the Super Bowl
There was a clear winner in this year's Super Bowl, both on the field and off.
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9 ways Facebook changed how we talk
Facebook has contributed numerous terms to the language of modern life, from
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The Confluence Of Content And Social Media: Insights For Success In 2014
One study has suggested that as many as 90% of American small businesses are on social media today. Social media has taken hold in the business world: it’s one of the easiest ways to reach new customers, and one of the three pillars of SEO in 2014.
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Who gives a tweet? Evaluating microblog content value
2012 study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and Georgia Institute of Technology on audience attitudes and Twitter content.
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More Than 11 Million Young People Have Fled Facebook Since 2011 | TIME.com
According to one analyst estimate
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Facebook Is Getting More Popular -- With Senior Citizens
While Facebook wants all the new users it can get, a huge influx of grandparents to the service probably isn't the best way to solve the problem of declining usage among teenagers. But that's exactly what's happening, judging from the results
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How to Add Social Selling to Your Marketing Mix
Sales - With the right strategy and a smart approach, companies of any size can harness the power of social selling to boost sales results, without adding to their already long To ...
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Study: 9 simple ways to get more retweets
Getting more retweets could be as simple as including capital letters, exclamation points and photos in your tweets.
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5 “Hidden Gem” Facebook Pages You Need to Follow ASAP
Want examples of interesting Facebook pages that are doing great things? Then follow these 5 relatively unknown Facebook Pages ASAP!
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6 Content Marketing Principles Every Business Needs to Follow
No matter how small your business, you can set yourself up as a thought leader with the right content marketing strategy. Here's where to start.
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Why Is Facebook Blue? The Science Behind Colors In Marketing
Turns out something as simple as tweaking the color of a button changes user behavior or endears people to your product. Buffer's Leo Widrich explains...
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Three Tips For Marketing Better With Memes
The infamous honey badger (image courtesy of Zap2It.com) Here’s the million dollar question: What is it that turns an idea into an internet meme? First, a definition: Memes – and particularly internet memes – refer to a story, a quote, a
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Twitter vs. Facebook Ad Showdown: Which Offers the Best Social Media Ad Platform?
Social Media - In social advertising, where is your money better spent�on Twitter, or on Facebook? Here are the key findings of a study across four measurement categories.
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Facebook Slightly Tweaked How The Site Works — And It Screwed An Entire Profession
Social media marketing firms are going to have to figure out new core competencies or they are going to go out of business.
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Facebook, Still Dominant, Strives to Keep Cachet
The swift rise of upstarts like Snapchat suggests a changing reality for how — and where — people like to spend their time.
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Facebook Home Propaganda Makes Selfishness Contagious | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Transforming vice into virtue, Facebook Home ads are social engineering spectacles that use aesthetic tricks to disguise the profound ethical issues at stake. This isn't an academic concern: Zuckerberg's vision (as portrayed by the ads) is being
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Here's Where Teens Are Going Instead Of Facebook
New research shows they're flocking to mobile chat-and-photo sharing apps WeChat, Vine and Flickr.
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The Role of #Hashtags in Social Media and Search
Hashtags can be extremely powerful. When you optimize conversations, content, and updates with hashtags, they become more visible to others on social media platforms and search engines. Here's how you can make hashtags work for you.
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Twitter Shares Make Smooth Market Debut
Twitter avoids the missteps that marred Facebook’s initial public offering last year, as its shares close 73 percent above its I.P.O. price, but slightly below the day’s opening price of $45.10.
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When Your Startup Should Seek Media Coverage
We receive dozens of emails from startups every week looking for coverage in Tech in Asia, and while some might be interesting, they don’t necessarily send anything newsworthy. Every media outlet worth its salt will be looking for a news peg –- an event that makes the piece timely.
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The Best Way to Land a Job in Social Media? Just Dive In.
Digital-marketing pro Ian Lurie offers up tips on how to break into the social media and digital advertising industry in this week's Ask the Expert column.
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Social Media Marketing – Just The Basics
Social media marketing involves using social media sites as part of your online marketing strategy. Social media sites include Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube, Google+ and other sites where people create profiles and interact with friends.
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Social Media’s Cardinal Sin… and I Made It - Jeffbullas's Blog
We all make mistakes but I made a big one on Twitter the other day. It taught me a lesson. So what was the social media cardinal sin? Was it a PR disaster?
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Social Media App Lets You Live Vicariously Through Friends' Experiences
Vycarious, a new social-media app, lets you create, follow and comment on experiences, ranging from a two-week vacation to handcrafting a dinner table.
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Watch Out, Facebook: Why Google And Pinterest Are Gaining As Social Rivals
As social sharing on Facebook declines, Google and Pinterest catch up.
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Want to Screw Up Your Social Media? Keep Doing What You’re Doing. - The Experts - WSJ
What’s the biggest mistake companies make with social media? They try to go social with the same old way of doing things.
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7 Key Things Every Great Facebook Contest Needs - Jeffbullas's Blog
No matter how much effort you put into your Facebook contests, you're simply not getting the results. Here are 7 tips you need for a great Facebook contest.
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Any Idiot Can Do Social Media
You are a CEO (or if not, let's pretend for a moment that you are) in charge of improving the customer service and sales of your company, which are currently both done by phone. You need be...
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Facebook Is Ruining Facebook – Again: Here Come Video Ads
Facebook (FB) is about to take its most intrusive advertising to a new medium – video – and it could be the most annoying yet. On tap: short video ads placed smack in the middle of users’ main news feeds. Related: Facebook Surges and Mark Zuckerberg
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Here’s Why Instagram Is Even More Depressing than Facebook
It’s a truism that Facebook is the many-headed frenemy, the great underminer. We know this because science tells us so. The Human–Computer Institute at Carnegie Mellon has found that your “passive consumption” of your friends&rsquo
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Facebook's Re-Design: How Will You Be Fed? | Social Media Today
Facebook launched its new design today with an introduction from Mark Zuckerberg that this was the
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Facebook Fatigue or Facebook Fracture?
Facebook is floundering under the weight of its own scorched earth policy towards privacy.
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Is Facebook Making You Miserable?
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Reuters) - Witnessing friends' vacations, love lives and work successes on Facebook can cause envy and trigger feelings of misery and loneliness, according to German researchers. A study conducted jointly by two German uni
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Facebook Profile Pics Could Go on Display at Louvre, Met Museum [VIDEO]
The Profile Picture Exhibition is working to get Facebook profile pictures on display at the Louvre and MET in an effort to redefine art.
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One of the worlds leading social media blogs. Focusing on social media culture, applications and marketing.
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6 Ways Brands Build Trust Through Social Media - Forbes
Using social media for business marketing has been a hot topic for years now, but brands are still trying to harness the power of the digital socialsphere to discover the best ways to directly impact their bottom lines. As social media use advances, so does the frequency in which brands [...]
