Social Media Updates: Page 424
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5 Ways To Get More Retweets on Twitter
A retweet on Twitter is a simple, but powerful ways to take your content that you're sharing with current followers and potentially making it viral. When someone retweets (RT) what you've posted the message goes beyond your personal follower pool. It's instantly sent to other new tweeters, which...
By Sarah Hartshorn • July 22, 2010 -
500 Million Facebook Users Later and Where Are We?
Facebook passed 500 million members yesterday. The number is great for them, and it's mind-boggling how they keep the site running smoothly with all the traffic they receive (Twitter, take note). The number comes as a laurel in the middle of another year filled with controversy.
By Jay Dolan • July 22, 2010 -
5 best practice tips when building a community using Facebook Pages
Did you hear the news?
By Krishna De • July 22, 2010 -
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Quit Betting on Twitter
There was a ComputerWorld post that talked about the issues with Twitter's downtime recently. A few companies who have dedicated clients and features that are dependent upon Twitter are whining about the downtime. Sorry folks, no empathy here. You built an entire company upon another free service that is a single point of failure for your clients? And you want me to feel sorry for you? (Insert time-out buzzer sound here)
By Douglas Karr • July 21, 2010 -
How To Brand Your Tweets on Twitter
If you're looking for a Twitter solution that combines both marketing and management then you absolutely must check out Market Me Tweet. Before you roll your eyes at the thought of yet another Twitter tool you'll be happy to know that Market Me Tweet is a true stand-out from the pack of Twitter ...
By Sarah Hartshorn • July 19, 2010 -
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The Twitter - Facebook Disparity
Last night, I attended a minor league (AA) baseball game in North Carolina (where I live) and was struck by how active the team was on various social media platforms. Before the game even started, they were showing pictures of the "Facebook Fan Of The Game" from their fan page, which I later learned had well over 3,000 members - not too shabby! I was also struck by the number of times the PA announcer asked fans to "join the team's Facebook Fan Page and follow us on Twitter" for news, discounts and special promotions.
By Tom Webster • July 19, 2010 -
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LinkedIn Groups have a new look!
This month LinkedIn is revamping the Groups section of their site. You may already be a member of a group on LinkedIn, but if not, I would highly encourage it. More than likely, there are groups about your industry or a specific topic that is of interest to you. LinkedIn's groups have always been a great way to portray your expertise in a particular area or stay up to date on news topics, but with this recent update I imagine that they will become even more helpful.
By Danielle Leitch • July 16, 2010 -
Twitter's New Follower email notification facelift
The New Follower email notification from Twitter gets a fresh new look. It comes with full extract of your new follower's profile details, including 'bio' and 'location.' It also comes with better organized "what's next" guide - link to your new follower's profile page, send an @ reply / direct ...
By Yung Hui Lim • July 16, 2010 -
Seven Killer Features Google Me Needs to Face Facebook
The rumor is out. Ever since Digg CEO Kevin Rose slipped the juicy gossip about Google Me, speculations and predictions about Google's latest foray into social networking have run wild on the Web. Will this alleged social platform be an innovative standout like Gmail was? Or will it just be an amalgamation of Google's previous social letdowns - Profiles, Buzz and Wave?
By The Media Logic Team • July 15, 2010 -
Is Gen X Afraid of Facebook for Networking?
As a child of the 70's, I am a card carrying member of the (small but proud) Generation X. This generation is generally defined by people born between 1961 - 1979.The other week, I had the opportunity to listen to a valuable presentation on Generation X by Harvard Business Review contributer Tammy Erickson. The webinar was titled "The Leaders We Need Now. Are We Ready for Gen X to Take Charge?" An interesting question indeed in consideration of the perceived "Boomer-Y Love Fest" (quoting Tammy).
By Chris Perry • July 15, 2010 -
10 ways I plan to become a better Twitter user
You might notice this post is not entitled '10 ways to get more out of Twitter'. That's because I do believe that successful use of social media is as much about what you give to it as what you take from it. So what does it mean to be a better Twitter user?
By Robin Houghton • July 14, 2010 -
What's In Your Twitter Medicine Cabinet?
Ok, so I have a Twitter confession to make. If you follow one of my two Twitter handles @lindsayfultz or @GroshBackdrops and/or I follow you...I have something to tell you that you may or may not find disturbing...I have looked in your medicine cabinet when you weren't looking, and have been for the past couple of months.
By Lindsay Fultz • July 14, 2010 -
Facebook Pisses Off Users. Again.
For all its cool connectivity features and business tools, Facebook can still manage to piss users off even when it's trying to be helpful.
July 14, 2010 -
Does Twitter Need a Domain System for Usernames?
Twitter has more than its fair share of challenges and opportunities to address but one area it really needs to address is liberating usernames that have been collecting dust for a long time. There are too many useful and interesting usernames that have been sitting idle for months, if not years....
By Mark Evans • July 14, 2010 -
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
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