Social Media Updates: Page 342

  • 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
  • SMT Expert

    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

  • 5 (More) Awesome Timeline Promotion Ideas

    Have you hosted a Timeline promotion yet? If not, this post will help you get inspired to run one soon!As most Facebook marketers know by now, Facebook recently announced changes to their promotion guidelines. According to their August 27, 2013 update, promotions and contests can now be hosted on...

    By • Sept. 25, 2013

  • YouTube Uses Google+ As Its Moderation Engine

    Recently I was invited to an exclusive panel held by YouTube to hear the latest improvements on its user comments, unveiled on 24 September 2013. YouTube appears to have listened to public and industry pressure on how to deal with abuse and spam on its platform. And the saviour in this fight is g...

    By • Sept. 25, 2013

  • The Moment I Fell In Love With Instagram Again

    In a milestone for the photo-sharing platform, Instagram hit 150 million users a couple of weeks ago, 50 million of which joined in the last six months. The social platform's co-founder Kevin Systrom explains, "Instagram has changed the way people see the world" and has become "a common element o...

    By • Sept. 25, 2013

  • Twitter Etiquette for Aspiring Power Users

    Twitter is a social platform. I repeat, social. In most on-ground social settings we are very aware of our appearance, our mannerisms, our words. Why do these etiquettes rarely show up in our virtual interactions?Several businesses on Twitter would avoid a lot of bashing and build a more loyal fo...

    By • Sept. 23, 2013

  • Google+ SEO Circles to Join

    Search engine optimization, commonly called SEO, is no simple undertaking - whether you've tackled the task as a professional or simply in order to help your personal blog rank higher with Google and friends, you know this, as well. From constantly changing rules to ever evolving search engine al...

    By • Sept. 20, 2013

  • How to Embed Tweets on Your Website and Blog

    Would you like to embed your tweets on your website or blog?A great way to place tweets on websites or blogs, is by embedding them. Embedding them is a lot better than just placing a screenshot or an image of a tweet, as you when you embed them, people will be able to see the number of times the...

    By • Sept. 17, 2013

  • 4 Warning Signs that Your LinkedIn Posts Won't Have an Impact

    Whether you're using a LinkedIn Profile to promote your personal brand or a LinkedIn Company Page to engage with customers and clients, it's never fun to see your LinkedIn post fall flat on its face.You put a ton of work into your social media marketing and it's disheartening whenever you fail to...

    By • Sept. 17, 2013

  • No Fail Whale: Twitter's IPO and Future

    Now that Twitter has let its own cat out of the bag with its now-infamous "confidential" tweet, the debate and speculation start.We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.- Twitter (@twitter) September 12...

    By • Sept. 17, 2013