Social Media Updates: Page 339

  • Social Spam Implications of the Twitter IPO

    On Thursday, October 3rd, Twitter released its S-1 filing prior to its initial public offering. Interestingly, the filing included thirty two pages of risk factors, almost 50% more than Facebook, Groupon, and Google. Among those risk factors, "spam" is mentioned 27 times, and considerable attenti...

    By • Oct. 14, 2013

  • Is There a Glass Keyboard? Facebook, Twitter Boards Hostile to Women

    Photo: courtesy Kong Fanwen, Yanko Design The dirty little secret at the top of the world's two most popular social networking companies that have made (Facebook) or are about to make (Twitter) the shift from privately-owned to publicly-traded businesses is that senior management is mired in a 19...

    By • Oct. 11, 2013

  • What Are the 3 Most Important LinkedIn Features? [VIDEO]

    In this Google Hangout on Air video, Kristina Jaramillo answers the question: What are the top 3 "features" of LinkedIn that business people should care about?Kristina Jaramillo of GetLinkedinHelp.com is a New York Times recognized LinkedIn expert who runs the B2BMarketingRadioShow.com What...

    By • Oct. 10, 2013

  • Leveraging LinkedIn Connections

    Connections matter. Big time. Recent research from Reachable.com shows just how much it impacts your ability to get a callback from a "stranger." In fact, you're: 3x more likely if you contact a mutual acquaintance.4x more likely if the connection calls to make an introduction.11x more likely if ...

    By • Oct. 9, 2013

  • Data Shows Most Engaging Twitter Image Apps [INFOGRAPHIC]

    New data released by Dan Zarella today shows what image attachment services earn more retweets on Twitter.It is easy to understand that Tweets with images drive engagement. However, the options for attaching images with 3rd party services (Facebook, Instagram) as well as Twitter's native applicat...

    By • Oct. 9, 2013

  • What Makes a Tweet Interesting?

    Whilst there is significant investment in social analytics, the best that most tools can offer is a postmortem look at performance. You can tell for instance how often a tweet was shared or clicked on, but this doesn't tend to provide more than a heuristic look at what it is that your followers ...

    By • Oct. 8, 2013

  • The New Twitter Conversation: Weak Ties that Bind

    A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men - Herman MelvilleTwitter recently announced an update to their web and mobile apps intended to make it easier to follow conversations. It is clearly a response to the difficulties people have experienc...

    By • Oct. 8, 2013

  • Amazing Facts: Social Media 2013 [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Here is an interesting info graphic done by Digital Insights that covers all latest Social Media facts, figures, numbers and statistics of 2013. Some of the most fascinating facts are mentioned here-

    By • Oct. 6, 2013

  • Storify of the Reaction to #TwitterIPO Filing

    On October 3rd, Twitter made its S-1 filing public. [<a href="//storify.com/socialmedia2day/reaction-to-twitteripo-announcement" target="_blank">View the story "Reaction to #TwitterIPO Filing" on Storify</a>]

    By • Oct. 5, 2013

  • How to Improve Your Job Search by Using Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Did you know that 93% of recruiters and 38 percent of job seekers are using LinkedIn. And 1 in 10 young job hunters are now rejected because of their social media use, while some employers mentioned that certain information would make a candidate more attractive or help the decision to extend a j...

    By • Oct. 4, 2013

  • Facebook Games: Are You Addicted? [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Farmville, Candy Crush, Words With Friends; now household names but only nine years ago they were not even in existence. Facebook games are a billion dollar industry and there's no end in sight. One in four Facebook users plays these games and collectively 927,000,000 hours are spent each month p...

    By • Oct. 4, 2013
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    How to Create a Great Hashtag to Advertise Your Business

    It goes without saying that if a business has a Twitter account, they'll probably be including a hashtag in their tweets. Or several hashtags, many of which may be generic keywords to better attract new fans to follow them with (#business #branding #tips), but some will be created specifically fo...

    By • Oct. 3, 2013

  • Tweet Away: 5 Tips to Help You Fall in Love With Twitter

    Twitter calls itself an "information network." In February 2013, it had 200 million active users, creating some 400 million tweets a day. It's a fun, exciting and real-time social network.While it can be a revenue generator for some businesses, that's only one reason you should engage and and bui...

    By • Oct. 3, 2013

  • US Government Twitter Feeds Go Dark During the Shutdown

    [<a href="//storify.com/socialmedia2day/twitter-feeds-go-dark-during-the-government-shutdo" target="_blank">View the story "Twitter Feeds Go Dark during the government shutdown. " on Storify</a>]

    By • Oct. 2, 2013

  • Social Media Glossary for 5 Major Social Networks

    There are a lot of social networks out there today, but the "big 5″ are definitely the ones you hear about the most.Below you will find a glossary of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Google+ terms. Hopefully, by the time you're finished reading it, you will feel comfortable talking the...

    By • Oct. 1, 2013

  • How Facebook Can Harm Your Business

    Facebook has been linked with many negative psychological effects, such as depression, and it has also led to relationship problems. Furthermore, Norwegian researchers have even classified Facebook as an addiction, even coming up with a scale to determine your addiction level for the social netwo...

    By • Oct. 1, 2013

  • Who to Follow on Twitter? Types of Twitter Profiles and Users

    According to Twopcharts (which is admittedly a bit wonky), Twitter now apparently boasts over 2.1 billion accounts created, with some 300 new accounts coming every second. If that 2.1B number is anywhere near accurate, it certainly includes an enormous number of spammers and fakes (that Twitter...

    By • Oct. 1, 2013

  • Google+ No Longer Accepting Page Verification Requests

    If you head on over to the Google+ page verification request page, you'll be met with a curious new message:We are no longer accepting name verification requests. Learn more about website linking for Google+ pages, or learn more about Google+ local pages and local page verification.That's because...

    By • Sept. 28, 2013

  • What Google's Hummingbird Update Really Means

    If there was any doubt about the speed at which Google is developing semantic search at a global level, the announcement of Hummingbird, Google's latest semantic algorithm update, should make everyone sit up and take notice. Timed to coincide with the celebration of Google's fifteenth birthday, H...

    By • Sept. 28, 2013

  • How CEOs Are Using Social Media

    Many current discussions of corporate social media use have been focusing on one individual: the CEO. Brands are starting to realize how important it is to have the face of your company represented on social media, and engaging with consumers. However, the majority of CEOs still are not on social...

    By • Sept. 27, 2013

  • California Gives Kids a Social Media Get Out of Jail Free Card

    A few days ago California passed a law which will let kids permanently erase all the stupid things they've posted online. I borrowed part of that from the headline of that accompanying story on Business Insider. The law, which goes into effect January 1, 2015 requires "the operator of an Internet...

    By • Sept. 27, 2013

  • US State Department Joins Instagram

    On Monday, the United States State Department launched its very own Instagram account.According to the US agency, the Instagram account will be "showcasing behind-the-scenes images of the Department's domestic and overseas work, including the Secretary's travels."However, this is not the first so...

    By • Sept. 26, 2013

  • Are You The Only One Skipping Over Instavids?

    You're scrolling down through your Instagram feed and pause momentarily on a new image when you realize it is not an image after all but a still from a video. You move on quickly because if you remain the video will start playing and interrupt your music. It's left behind, unviewed - a momentary ...

    By • Sept. 26, 2013

  • Social Media Policy: When Are Your Own Opinions Not Okay?

    A couple of years ago, I watched a young woman tweet about how much she hated her job and her boss. Part of me wanted to message her to tell her to take that stuff off the public timeline. Clearly she didn't know what she was doing. And then I saw her boss tweet to her, "No worries. You're fired....

    By • Sept. 26, 2013

  • Internet.org: Bringing the Internet to the Whole World [VIDEO]

    Today, in the crazy tech driven world that you and I live in, it's hard to stop and look around everyone once and a while to think about the fact that only 2.7 billion people have internet access. The rate that people are adopting the internet is growing by less than 9% annually.Can you imagine a...

    By • Sept. 25, 2013