Social Media Updates: Page 414
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Twitter Topic Searches, A New Way To Search
Nicholas Carlson from the San Francisco Chronicle discusses the claim that Twitter is the fastest growing search engine. Last week Biz Stone had announced that Twitter has over 800 million search queries per day up from 600 million search queries in April.
By John Cass • July 14, 2010 -
7 Things You Should Do Before Calling the Facebook Police
Dailymirror.lk reported yesterday, "the police women and child's bureau (Sri Lanka) has received over 50 complaints against the social networking website Facebook".
By Amitha Amarasinghe • July 14, 2010 -
When Not to Have a Twitter Account
I'm hard pressed to think of a situation where a business is better off not having an account. I know for sure that ignoring Twitter is just not good policy.Maybe @CoxCable jumped onto Twitter before they were ready. I'm just guessing that this account is from someone inside Cox Cable. Twitter hasn't verified the account, and you can see from the activity that they aren't interacting much
By Warren Whitlock • July 13, 2010 -
10 Ways I like to Thank Twitter Followers for Retweets
Have you ever grown tired of seeing a flood of @mentions...@mentions "Thanks for the RT!" on Twitter? I have to say, it's not the most interesting thing to read. Even though it's a nice gesture, it doesn't always convey the weight of what a retweet really means to me. It really falls flat in c...
By Kiesha Easley • July 13, 2010 -
Twitter is #2 Search Engine
Reading tweets and stories that @Biz reported that Twitter search is up 33% in a month (and it's a month old data). So I started exploring related posts.SearchEngineLand does a great job of analyzing it (using the month older data)
By Warren Whitlock • July 12, 2010 -
Why I Dumped Tweetdeck for Mixero
Over a year ago, I wrote about Tweetdeck as my preferred desktop application to manage my Twitter account. Shortly after, I was introduced to Mixero, which I tried, didn't understand and summarily dismissed. After a few more months of thinking there just had to be something better, I gave Mi...
By Tom Snyder • July 12, 2010 -
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Meetings: Leveraging The People Power Of Technology And Tweets
Over the past few months I've attended or spoken at more than a half dozen events and meetings. All different and very worthwhile. Last month I was fortunate to attend The World Innovation Forum in New York City. This particular event was a gathering of some great thought leaders across an array...
By Hank Wasiak • July 10, 2010 -
How To Add Your Business To Twitter Places
Twitter has been wrestling with the location game for some time with a couple fits and starts landing most recently on something they call Twitter Places. The ultimate goal, I suspect is to become a player in the Foursquare check in kind of way. I have my doubts as to whether they can claim this turf, but I think it's worth paying a little attention to.
By John Jantsch • July 9, 2010 -
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Social Plugins: Eight Reasons to Like Facebook
Considering its recent privacy gaffe, we can all think of reasons not to like Facebook. In this post, I want to list eight reasons you should. They all have to do with the new Social Plugins, which enable site owners to open up their content for sharing on Facebook. There are eight such plugins, the first five of which can be installed by pretty much anyone. Facebook Like Button
By Paul Chaney • July 8, 2010 -
Has Twitter's rise led to a decrease in journalistic standards?
South African blogger Herman Manson has posted an article on Memeburn ('the South African Mashable'), questioning whether that by breaking news, Twi
By Dirk Singer • July 7, 2010 -
Will Changes to LinkedIn Groups Mean Changes in User's Attitudes?
If you've participated in any LinkedIn Groups lately, you know they've undergone quite a facelift. This video outlines the changes: It doesn't appear that the changes have been rolled out unilaterally. In at least one group in which I participate, the old interface is still what shows up. I don't know if that is something the group manager controls, but that's what I'm seeing.
By Paul Chaney • July 7, 2010 -
10 Reasons You're Not Getting Followers on Twitter
Twitter thrives on the relationship between you and your followers. And yet many small businesses struggle to gain a following and end up abandoning their profiles due to fundamental errors in the way they manage them. This often boils down to a lack of understanding of Twitter as a social channel and an inability or unwillingness to invest the time to learn. But the secret to success is simple: put yourself in your followers' shoes and consider what you're adding to their lives.
By Paul Sutton • July 6, 2010 -
Facebook Launches New Data Permissions
During the 2010 f8 conference, Facebook announced that it would be launching a new set of data permissions as part of the new Graph API. The permissions themselves, while they provide more granular coverage of the data available via Facebook, aren't really that interesting - the interesting part of the new data permissions are what Facebook grants to clients in terms of license to use and store the data.User Experience
By Courtney Crane • July 2, 2010 -
Is Google Really Making a Facebook Killer?
I have read the articles and heard the talks revolving around the upcoming "Facebook Killer" from Google. I will say one thing, many have noted that Google now realizes that Buzz was not enough. Yea, I would say that is a contender for understatement of the year.
By Tyler Olson • July 2, 2010 -
Worst. Tweet. Ever.
We all tweet things we wish we never tweeted. Maybe we delve too deep into the realm of the personal. Maybe you just made one typo that turned your innocent message into something a bit too exotic for your followers. Maybe your little joke completely bombed in a bad way. Whatever you tweeted, you wish you could take it back.I've seen a lot of cringe-worthy tweets in the three years I've been using Twitter. I think it's what happens when we become so comfortable with the medium. The more relaxed you are, the more you let out. Sometimes, you just let out way too much.
By Jay Dolan • July 2, 2010 -
How to Make Your Social Networking Stand Out
What makes a social media plan work, especially in the world of personal branding?
By Daniel Schawbel • July 1, 2010 -
LinkedIn: An Untapped Social Media Giant?
Marketing on facebook and twitter has been a matter of great discussion and speculation. Some believe that potential of marketing on social media is still untapped while others dismiss it as just hype...lot of smoke with only a little fire at heart. Instead, LinkedIn can be a better option to target professionals more accurately. Lately, LinkedIn has opened doors for various companies to take on followers for their profile page and upgrade them (of course for a fee). Now LinkedIn is the new social media that presents unforeseen opportunities for marketers and media buyers to exploit.
By Shiraz Datta • July 1, 2010 -
Who has the most authoritative Twitter followers?
In honor of Social Media Day, I decided to use Sysomos' social media analytics platform to examine the Twitter handles of various PR news outlets, wire services and industry organizations. I was particularly interested in looking at the relative authority and predominant location of each handles' followers.
By Trevor Jonas • June 30, 2010 -
The 5 Best Ways to Use Twitter for Your Job Search
Twitter can be a tremendous, fast moving tool in your Job Search Toolbox. Here are 5 ways to get the most out of it.1. Follow and read job search experts. The amount of excellent ideas, tips, leads, news, informative articles, and best practices going by all day long is amazing. Use Twellow's directory for Employment > Career > Job Search to find excellent people to follow. You'll find outstanding advice that applies to your situation... guaranteed.
By Chris Perry • June 30, 2010 -
10 Careers That Can Utilize Twitter
Image via WikipediaTwitter has been in the news for the past few years as the shiny new toy. It was a big part in the presidential campaign, and you can find almost every company you're in love with on the social network. It's safe to say the creators are pretty rich now. Who knew 140 characters ...
By Briana Ford • June 29, 2010 -
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A new Twitter record - 3282 tweets per second
On average Twitter sees 750 tweets per second being sent out says the Blog Herald. By comparison, a Twitter record was broken twice in succession last week, first during the NBA basketball finals in the States, and second during the Japan / Denmark match in the World Cup.
By Dirk Singer • June 26, 2010
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