Latest and Breaking Social Media News and Top Stories - July 3
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Facebook data scientists recently conducted a study testing the impact of negative or positive post biasing in the news feed . They were hoping to find out if a user’s mood could be impacted by the weighting different content. But the ai...
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Things for Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Facebook, have not been going well as of late. Recently, it was revealed that Facebook had run an emotion experiment affecting some 700,000 users – all done without the c...
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If the reach and engagement metrics you’ve seen on your Facebook page seem a little off, it’s because there’s been a bug affecting those figures. Facebook admitted to many page owners today that there is a...
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For three weeks now, the eyes of the world have been fixated on Brazil to watch football — or soccer as it’s called in the United States. Yep, the World Cup is in full swing —...
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CEO of UPower Technologies Jacob DeWitte told New Scientist that radical improvements to nuclear power will be led by entrepreneurs. “Newer companies can help stimulate innovation in a traditional start-up sense,” he says. &#...
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Forty-two percent of marketers currently use mobile marketing but that number is growing along with a greater need for in-house talent. According to a survey by Ascend2 , the greatest obstacle to successful mobile marketing is a lack of ...
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This incredibly useful and constantly updated infographic from Tent Social details important information you’ll inevitably need for your marketing efforts in 2014. Use it as a handy reference guide to required image and video dimen...
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Think of it as a sort of physical photoshop: In response to the current obsession with social media selfie photos, more people are resorting to plastic surgery to fix imperfections like prominent noses, unacceptable wrinkles or curves, o...
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A New Jersey prep school student probably will think twice about what she posts on social media after she was removed from her student body presidency for “offensive” images she posted. Maya Peterson was the first black female student pr...
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The role of a group of data scientists at Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB) that is in charge of the sensitive, and potentially lucrative, personal information of a billion-plus users around the world is now being questioned, following the larg...
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Whether you manage social media for your company, or use it to promote a personal brand, it’s important to diversify your content to keep the interest of your... Read More The post How to Find Friends and Influence People: Engage Your Au...
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Facebook is to face questioning from the UK's data watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), over its recent psychological experiment which compared the posts of people whose news feed was filtered to be happy to those whose...
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Where would you travel if you could go anywhere? Elliott travels around the globe to highlight extraordinary vacation spots that might just prove that heaven is a place on Earth. Yesterday, Elliott looked at the topic of flying cars, whi...
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Buys LiveRail to Grow its Video Ad Business ( Adweek ) Facebook is buying video ad platform LiveRail and giving it control of a network that powers adverti...
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Twitter has become an indispensable diplomatic networking and communication tool. According to the new study Twiplomacy, more than half of the world’s foreign ministers and their institutions are active on the social networking site. Her...
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It's not without controversy, but a video by filmmaker Lauren Greenfield for Procter & Gamble's Always brand of "feminine" products is stirring up conversations around the subject of what "like a girl" tells us about ourselves - as indiv...
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Social network is ramping up its efforts to return revenue from digital media
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Social network is ramping up its efforts to return revenue from digital media.
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Goodstuph focuses less on tweets and more on events or promotions designed to cause a digital stir. Now it’s opening a bar.
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Monika Bickert has defended the site's experimentation, saying it is necessary to ensure the site keeps improving Facebooks head of policy, Monika Bickert, has claimed that the company's emotion experiments were innovation and a necessar...
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Do you want to learn how to market yourself and your business on Twitter? Are you looking for a resource to guide your Twitter marketing efforts? Whether you’re marketing on Twitter as an individual or as a brand, these expert arti...
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We work with a number of very large organizations that strive to innovate in their category. Innovation is an awesome buzzword. One that gets shareholders excited. There are in fact whole departments at some companies dedicated to innova...
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Do you want to attract more followers on Instagram? Are you using Instagram to its full potential? Instagram engagement is 58 times higher per follower than Facebook. Don’t underestimate its marketing potential. In this article I&#...
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Facebook on Wednesday announced a deal to buy online video advertising technology company LiveRail. The companies did not disclose how much Facebook is paying for seven-year-old LiveRail. "What LiveRail ultimately offers is a comple...
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While some marketers like to talk about the death of email due to channels like social and mobile, Oliver Beckett, CRM customer experience manager, at Expedia UK & Ireland, sees email as the workhorse that is helping the other channels.
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Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan was rated the UK's most influential online reporter by the Press Gazette's Social Media Journalism Awards. Morgan, who has a Twitter following of over four million people and regularly argues with ...
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Microblogging services UK revenue forecast to double to nearly £100m, but social networks income expected to near £570m Twitter will double its UK revenues this year to almost £100m, while Facebook is expected to enjoy a 40% boost ...
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Those concerned about their online profiles have a range of options, from deactivating their accounts completely to limiting who sees past posts.
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Big data has incredible power. It also has limitations not everyone understands. (Try our Twitter quiz and see.)
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A reader responds to an Op-Ed article, “Should Facebook Manipulate Users?”
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Studying how social media sites are used can provide valuable insight into human behavior and may also help curb their power and potential for abuse.
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Kiel James Patrick draws interest by selling a fantasy life of a smart young crowd at play.
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To celebrate Social Media Day on June 30, 2014, Mashable asked our followers on Twitter to engage in #1Connection , an experiment that spanned the entire globe. The aim of #1Connection was to celebrate the unique ability of social media ...
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“We decided to move up market to replace and expand on the Salesforce for Google AdWords product,” says Aaron Bird, co-founder and CEO of the up-and-coming marketing analytics powerhouse. “We added a number of features so companies can t...
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By Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - Facebook has removed some photographs of a Texas teenager posing with freshly killed animals she hunted during a recent safari in South Africa that had been criticized by users as inappropriate, the...
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LONDON (AP) — British regulators are investigating revelations that Facebook treated hordes of its users like laboratory rats in an experiment probing into their emotions.
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The uproar over what the critics call Facebook's "secret emotional manipulation study" continues to rage, proving that nothing in modern life is safe from the online tantrum industry. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences p...
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An Irish court has fined a man $2,731 (€2,000) in the country’s first convicted “Facebook rape” or “Frape” case after he took a woman’s phone and used it to post sexually abusive status updates on her Facebook page. Prosecutors based the...
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As the Samsung Galaxy S5 becomes more popular (and the Galaxy S4 keeps going strong), the Facebook app for Galaxy devices is growing quickly in terms of Facebook users. According to AppData, the app for Samsung...
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Facebook and Google combined will account for a 15 percent share of the total media advertising marketing of $200 billion in 2016, according to the latest projections from market researcher eMarketer . (more…) New Career Opportun...
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In light of Wednesday’s suspected retributive killing of a Palestinian teenager and Tuesday’s funeral for three kidnapped Israeli boys, Israelis turned to social media to advocate for conflicting responses. In two days, more than 36,000...
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Cyberbully's now have the law on their side in NY when it comes to smearing people on the Internet
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"Marketing Daily" caught up with Wanelo's social commerce evangelist, Rachel Youens, for an explanation of why social has been such a letdown for retailers, and how a simplified approach appeals to mobile shoppers.
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Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg weighed in on the controversy over a study by social scientists from the social network, Cornell University, and the University of California-San Francisco , in which the researchers ran...
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For 120 minutes on Tuesday, Americans rode a roller coaster of emotions during Team USA's World Cup swan song — and now there's a digital footprint to prove it Fans took to Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and other social media services...
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Calling all people sharing names with the founding fathers. Mr. Peanut wants you... to hit up his Facebook page for free peanuts and Presidential wigs. That's right, if your name is George Washington, Martha Washington, Betsy Ross, John ...
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Hootsuite landed in Cannes for the Cannes Lions, International Festival of Creativity, on 15th-21st June 2014. More than 12,000 delegates from 95 countries gathered on the French Mediterranean... Read More The post Social Media and #Live...
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LONDON (AP) — British data protection authorities are investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users.
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British data protection authorities are investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users. The Information Commissioner's Office said Wednesday that it wants to ...
