Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

Are you failing your followers?

January 19th, 2011

I hate social media marketers, including myself. For everything we do right, there’s so much more we can do better to help advocate for ourselves and for the clients, fans, and customers we interact with daily.

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Sponsored tweets pose ethical problems, experts say

January 19th, 2011

by Adam Hochberg, Poynter.org

ate last year, there was an unusual amount of buzz among prominent Twitter users about a relatively minor development in the Web services industry – the redesign of AOL’s home page.

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7 secrets about social media users

January 17th, 2011

By Alyson Shontell, Business Insider

Many people wonder what the heck the big deal is with Twitter and Facebook. What’s the appeal?

To find out, you need to first understand what people do on social media networks. Why do they visit the sites and what do they use them for?

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You never know who you’ll befriend via social networking

January 17th, 2011

By Bryce Christiansen, Dumb Little Man

Last year Facebook passed up Google for the most visited site in the world. What an interesting trend we are seeing, where people are searching for connections more than answers. Yet, for many, the full potential of social media eludes them.

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Retailers look to social sites to cement customer relationships

January 11th, 2011

NEW YORK — Over the past decade, the Internet has made the world a smaller place.

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How the NCAA Stays on Top of the Social Media Game [INTERVIEW]

January 11th, 2011

As the overarching organization that oversees college athletes and their recruitment, the National Collegiate Athletic Association has its own set of rules that athletes, coaches and boosters must follow when using social media.

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45 innovators to follow on Twitter

January 11th, 2011

The people over at the Real Time Academy are back it again this year – running their Shorty Awards.

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Social tools help marketers reach Hispanic shoppers

January 7th, 2011

Media experts agree that social media is the gateway to U.S. Hispanics, the fastest-growing audience to embrace social networks and to tap into web information resources.

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7 Secrets About Social Media Users, Revealed

January 6th, 2011

By Alyson Shontell, Business Insider

Many people wonder what the heck the big deal is with Twitter and Facebook. What’s the appeal?

To find out, you need to first understand what people do on social media networks. Why do they visit the sites and what do they use them for?

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How to calculate your Twitter ranking

January 6th, 2011

By MG Siegler, TechCrunch

exp(21 – 1.1*log(#followers))

If you ever wanted to know where you rank among Twitter users in terms of the followers you have, that’s the equation. Well, for most of you anyway. Twitter tech lead Pankaj Gupta tweeted that equation out earlier today.
A Twitter Equation: If accounts were ranked by #followers, approx. rank=exp(21 – 1.1*log(#followers)). e.g., 331 with 1M followers!

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