Social Media Updates: Page 340

  • Nearly Half of Americans Think Twitter Is Not a Good Investment

    Nearly 50 percent of Americans do not think Twitter is a good investment, while more than 40 percent of Twitter users have seen promoted content on the micro-blogging platform and most of these users dawdle rather than actively tweet.In addition, fewer than 50 percent of Americans say that Twitte...

    By • Nov. 8, 2013

  • Warped Priorities in the Information Age: How the Masses Misuse Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Twitter and other social media outlets have made it easier than ever to track the real-time response to current events and controversies.Using data from Twitter social search engine "Topsy," BrickHouse Security did a comparison of tweet volume over time to see how many people were using the Twitt...

    By • Nov. 8, 2013

  • 3 Reasons I'm Bullish on the Twitter IPO

    I'm bullish on Twitter, but I'm by no means a financial analyst. I just see the manner in which the platform has transformed the way the world communicates. Two days ago I was asked to speak about my feelings regarding Twitter's IPO on Fox Business's Varney & Co. In the segment I articulated...

    By • Nov. 8, 2013

  • Twitter Suspends (Then Reinstates) Account Critical of Obamacare

    Twitter has repeatedly suspended an account critical of the AffordableCare Act.The account @mycancellation was just getting started when Twitter suspended it, two times, before reinstating the account late Saturday night. I do not know the circumstances leading up to it or whether there was foul ...

    By • Nov. 7, 2013

  • What Next for Facebook? Hints from Zuckerberg, Sandberg

    Last week, Facebook's leadership team held an open call with investors, that call gave us a sneak peak at what Facebook's future strategic plans might look like.Mark Zuckerberg indicated he will be taking Facebook in a Google like direction. The CEO wants FB to be a 'pull' based service, as appos...

    By • Nov. 7, 2013

  • Twitter IPO: What's the Big Deal?

    I've been thinking about the Twitter IPO happening this week.I'm not a financial professional and can't comment on the financial stuff which bores me so much that my hair hurts - so I have no opinion on things like revenue and profit. Rather, I look at the big picture and invest in what I know.Ev...

    By • Nov. 6, 2013

  • 7 Ways a #Hashtag Can Make Your Event Live On

    Everybody knows about hashtags. We've seen the Justin Timberlake YouTube video. We've seen the Subway knock-off commercial. But all kidding aside, the smart use of a hashtag can give your event a new life that lasts far after the event is over. Here are a seven tips on how to get the most mileage...

    By • Nov. 6, 2013

  • Twitter IPO: A Big Moment in Social Media History

    This week marks a huge moment in the history of Twitter. After several years of speculation, Twitter will list publicly for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange this week under the ticker symbol TWTR.Some 70 million shares will be made available for investors, valuing the company at arou...

    By • Nov. 5, 2013

  • 5 Facebook Business Page Check-Up Tips

    Facebook is always modifying its network, whether changing the layout, its rules or adding new options. This sometimes frustrates its users, but it also can add greater optimization that enables businesses to reach consumers.Keeping this is mind. It's a good practice to educate yourself on the la...

    By • Nov. 5, 2013

  • Pinteresting Fact: Image Pinning Site Preparing for Monetization

    With social blogging a past invention, one could say that Pinterest's first few months were destined for failure. Digg, Stumbleupon and Del.icio.us were past projects that involved sharing websites and pictures for the world to see, so, what was going to make Pinterest so much better than previou...

    By • Nov. 4, 2013

  • How Alcohol Adversely Impacts Social Media Usage [INFOGRAPHIC]

    How does alcohol usage affect social media usage? A tongue in cheek infographic for sure, but it's good humor. My favorite part was the recommendation to update your LinkedIn after rehydration.I'm curious to know your thoughts on this one.Photo by M. Weinert (privat) [Public domain], via Wikimedi...

    By • Nov. 3, 2013

  • How Users Consume News on Their Facebook Feed [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Whether or not they're looking for news on their Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) newsfeed, about one in three U.S. adults end up getting some of their news from the social media site, according to a new study by Pew Research Center in collaboration with the Knight Foundation."I believe Facebook is a good wa...

    By • Nov. 3, 2013

  • Top 5 Reasons Your Business Is Scaring Away Twitter Followers

    With over 230 million active monthly users, Twitter is widely considered to be the 2nd most popular social networking site, behind Facebook. For businesses, this helps make Twitter a crucial resource for engaging with customers and promoting their products and services. However, when companies do...

    By • Nov. 1, 2013

  • LinkedIn Looks to Mobile for Future Expansion

    LinkedIn has seen the future, and that future is mobile. With a whole slew of new mobile apps and app updates, LinkedIn is launching a campaign with the end goal of global dominance in the realm of professional networking and connections. As CEO Jeff Weiner has stated, mobile expansion is LinkedI...

    By • Nov. 1, 2013

  • 5 Legal Ways to Contact a Facebook Contest Winner

    When Facebook updated their promotion guidelines this past August, they casually removed the rule that stated brands could not contact promotion winners on Facebook via status updates, private messages, chat, etc. This rule was kind of a hassle, especially for businesses with multiple promotion w...

    By • Nov. 1, 2013

  • Dracula's LinkedIn Profile

    I started to work with an interesting new client named Count Dracula. He wanted to start a new company focused on anti-aging solutions. (He thought Los Angeles would be the perfect place to start.) He needed some social selling help, so together we put together a great LinkedIn profile and I'd li...

    By • Nov. 1, 2013
  • SMT Expert

    7 Reasons Not to Trust Google+ Usage Numbers Today

    On October 29th, Alistair Barr of USA Today published an article publicizing Google's recent announcement of a 58 percent jump in users. Google's head of social, Vic Gundotra, announced some very big growth in user metrics that could make many believe that Google+ might be knocking on Facebook's ...

    By • Oct. 31, 2013

  • Social Media McCarthyism: Twitter's Witch Hunt

    With Halloween (and an impending IPO) fast upon us, perhaps it's fitting that Twitter is quietly engaging in a modern-day witch hunt, whereby user accounts are being indiscriminately purged, sometimes within days of creation, and seemingly in violation of the social media giant's accepted practic...

    By • Oct. 31, 2013

  • How to Claim Your Google Plus Custom URL for People and Business

    Oooh, how exciting! I've been spending more and more time on Google Plus lately after listening to Guy Kawasaki tout the network at BlogHer'13 this past summer. Last night when I logged in to post some stuff I noticed at the top of my Google Plus page that for both the brand pages that I manage a...

    By • Oct. 31, 2013

  • Google Plus Adds New Photo and Video Editing Features

    Google+ announced a new set of photo features at an event this morning in San Francisco that contain new functionality that compete directly with many Apple products such as iPhoto and iMovie. These new features are in addition to the photo center redesign from the I/O event in May of this year.S...

    By • Oct. 30, 2013

  • Why Twitter Is Leading the Way in Pharma Social Media

    (This post was first published on HealthWorks Collective, a sister site in the SocialMedia Today network)In the very noisy world of social media, where Facebook and LinkedIn are slugging it out in the marketing ring to get big corporates on board, one channel is quietly forging a good niche in he...

    By • Oct. 29, 2013

  • Young and Rich: Why Instagram Is Such a Lucrative Asset for Facebook

    As Instagram ads are starting to appear in user news feeds, new data shows the potentially lucrative value of the photo-sharing app for Mark Zukerberg's Facebook (NASDAQ: FB), with research showing Instagram capturing younger and wealthier US consumers.A report from the Pew Research group says ne...

    By • Oct. 29, 2013

  • Stop Looking Like a Bot, Improve Your Twitter Profile with These Tips

    When I first started using Twitter I didn't have to worry about bots and spammers attempting to follow me because the service although unreliable (remember the great fail whale outages of yesteryear?) was relatively clean when it came to its user base. If someone followed you, it was polite to f...

    By • Oct. 29, 2013

  • 5 Ways to Deal With Insufferable Facebook Behavior

    Do you have a personal Facebook account or know someone who does? The writer of a recent article, "7 Ways to Be Insufferable on Facebook" divides Facebook statuses into two categories: annoying and unannoying. According to the writer, an annoying Facebook status "primarily serves the author a...

    By • Oct. 28, 2013

  • Face(book) Value [INFOGRAPHIC]

    Five years ago, who would have predicted that 140 million Facebook users would grow to an inconceivable 1.15 billion? Katerina Kardamaki @LimeTreeOnline breaks the story down...Early Facebook was the adorable kitten everyone liked. Then the cat turned fat and complacent - largely because of selling out to ads.

    By • Oct. 28, 2013