Tuesday's Top 50 Social Media News & Stories
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Want to understand what content works well on Facebook? Check out the free Inspire tool provided by ActionSprout. ActionSprout, which provides a great application that adds campaign-type actions to your Facebook page and collects your fa...
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In 2000, co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob DeHart pooled a thousand dollars and started Threadless. The basic idea of the company was, and is still, that designers and artists can post design ideas for t-shirts. Members of the web site'...
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Airbnb has emerged as an alternative to traditional vacation housing, arguably catering more to “travelers” than to “tourists.” For most, the stereotypical image of an Airbnb experience is a Millennial clad almost invariably in a plaid ...
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It is male personal-care brand Axe's campaign meant to support the company's new "Gold Temptation" fragrance, and address the fact that, per the Unilever brand, three-quarters of men, and 60% of women say they don't understand what tempt...
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Similar to Facebook’s controversial social experiment , The U.S. Defense Department conducts a range of social media experiments, including one project that analyzed how users understand and consume information on Twitter. Before t...
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When we choose friends, it seems we choose disproportionately from among those genetically similar to our families It seems there is less difference between kith and kin than normally supposed. An American study has concluded that when w...
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Chip Bergh, who says he hopes to elevate the conversation about how to care for denim to address water issues around the globe, does wash his blue jeans, both spot cleaning and by hand-washing them in cold water. "Ask my wife - I really ...
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We savor the irony when tech giants -- which only exist because of people's willingness to bare their souls (or at least babble ad nauseam) -- cry foul when a secret or two spills into the public sphere. Twitter is reportedly taking away...
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The iPhone is a great photographic tool. But you're not getting the most out of it if you're still using Apple's built-in camera app. Here's our shortlist of the best apps available for capturing pro-worthy images.
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Mozilla today announced the release of mozjpeg 2.0, an enhanced version of it’s original mozjpeg image encoder. The new encoder provides larger compression improvements than previous encoders. Mozilla says mozjpeg jand can compress...
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Free WiFi for some, thanks to Facebook. A school system in Forest City, North Carolina offers every middle and high school student a free laptop, but unfortunately “nearly half of those students don’t have access to the Internet at...
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A fake Facebook application that asked users to part with personal details such as their date of birth and email address has turned out to be part of a government program to monitor anyone who tries to access blocked websites. Since seiz...
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Dutch communications agency Just is encouraging Facebook users to give up the network for 99 days. The idea came about in response to Facebook’s recent mood experiments involving hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting users . It als...
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One of the most common desires for Facebook marketers is the ability to actually talk with someone from the company when they’re looking for help or inspiration. Now it looks like Facebook is bridging that gap....
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Best friends for life. What brand wouldn't want that distinction? Morality might become the stepping stone into the inner circle, but relevance and trust keep the fire burning. Personalized emails play a major role in building relationsh...
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Students in North Carolina’s Rutherford County School District will be part of a pilot program aimed at bringing them free Wi-Fi as the result of a collaboration between Facebook, the Town of Forest City (where the social network has a ...
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Well, guess what: the spies aren't just spying on us, they're manipulating our communications too. And if you didn't like Facebook's fiddling with the posts you got to see, how do you feel about British spooks doing it? The latest round ...
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For the umpteenth time in their glorious history, “shock jocks” Opie & Anthony made news of a negative kind in the last week. SiriusXM dismissed co-host Anthony Cumia after he launched a racially-offensive screed on Twitter. Althoug...
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Just as the FCC has approved a plan to invest $2 billion into U.S. schools to improve WiFi, Facebook is taking a step to improve WiFi for students in their homes. Today the company is announcing a pilot in North Carolina to provide...
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Snapchat added a collection of geo-filters to its popular app that allow users to add fun labels and drawings based on their location. Snapchat users can now add specific art and labels to snaps take in certain cities and destinations. F...
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Web-born "fandoms" (devoted fan groups) have never had more opportunities to bond in the real world. Yet, as this weekend’s DashCon 2014 illustrates, large gatherings come with significant risk for organizers and supporters. &ldquo...
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New Google Glass app Monocle feeds you just enough of the most popular Reddit submissions to keep you following the site throughout the day.
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When Yahoo reports its quarterly earnings later today, an extra percentage point or two of revenue growth would go a long way toward convincing investors that CEO Marissa Mayer is making progress in fixing the company's core business of ...
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Every picture tells a story, but what about every Facebook ad campaign? The social network teamed up with Strategic Preferred Marketing Developer and social media advertising technology firm Adaptly on a study in which two separate ca...
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Twitter data collected during the 2014 World Cup shows millions of tweets sent during every big match
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Getting the latest news on a government reshuffle once meant loitering for hours in Downing Street waiting for ministers to emerge from the prime minister's office and judging their fate by the look on their face. Watch this Twitter...
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Janet Yellen, the chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, just poured cold water on the social media sector Ahead of her appearance before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday, Yellen released the Fed's semi-annual Monetary Policy Report ....
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This is something that I really focus on when companies consult with me when organizing themselves in relation to the changes that adapting to the new bidirectional and participative environment we live in today require: the need to put ...
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Social media is no longer being dismissed by large corporations and not-for-profit organizations as a platform for spoilt youth and folks who have spare time for meaningless chatter. Instead, it is emerging as a technology that can help ...
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Shares in biotechs and social media stocks fell Tuesday after a Fed report suggested their valuations appear stretched.
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The term "war room" has entered the lexicon for social media marketers surrounding any and every large event that falls under the nation's spotlight. These large events come and go. The war rooms follow. The games in Brazil end, and soci...
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Snapchat has added a new feature to its app starting today that will offer special image filters depending on your location. All you need to do to activate them is swipe right from the preview screen after you take a photo, and you...
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Shares of social-media and biotech companies were lower Tuesday as the Fed's semiannual testimony included a warning over their valuations. Shares of Twitter , Facebook and ...
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Social media is becoming increasingly visual. For marketers, sharing images on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other channels is an opportunity to capture an audience's attention quicker and more effectively than 140 characters usually ...
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Who posts more photos to social media , men or women? Ladies, this one is all you. That's according to Aviary , a photo editing app which also powers 6,000 other photo editing apps. The photo hub recently crossed the "10 billion photos e...
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Macquarie upped its rating on Twitter to neutral. CNBC's Jim Cramer shares his opinions on Facebook and Twitter.
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As Google's Orkut marches to the guillotine, Russia's VKontakte (VK) is welcoming the social network's remaining users with open arms.
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The big news in sports today is supposed to be the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. However, two morning press releases figure to shake up the future of the daily fantasy sports marketplace. First, one of the original daily fantasy ...
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Social media has changed the relationship between higher education institutions and their audiences—for the better. Schools that have broadened the scope of their communication with social media are... Read More The post Tips from the Hi...
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It was the most 'talked about' social sporting event ever with more than 80m people joining in 280m conversations and the most talked about World Cup brand was Adidas. The official sponsor, has recorded 5.8m new follows across its major ...
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With tourism emerging to be the most popular industry on Instagram, the image-sharing network has become a crucial channel for marketers in the travel business. Social media in... Read More The post Social Media For Tourism: Vancouver Is...
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Secret, the hot anonymous app that reached a $100 million valuation in nine months, isn't really growing. At least, nothing indicates that it is. Its app store rankings fluctuate wildly and often don't register in the top 1,500 overall -...
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If You Find Hidden Cash or Hidden Bitcoin, Guess Who Is Entitled to a Big Slice? Uncle Sam.
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Japanese messaging app Line is in the process of filing for an initial public offering valued at over $10 billion or 9 trillion yen, according to Bloomberg News. The company reportedly submitted an application to the Tokyo Stock Exchange...
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Young women and girls who post revealing pictures on social media are seen as less competent and less attractive by their peers, a new study shows
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Young women and girls who post revealing pictures on social media are seen as less competent and less attractive by their peers, a new study shows
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It forces people to follow two of the most important principles of good business writing: get to the point quickly. And keep it short.
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Click here to receive the Morning Social Media Newsfeed via email. LinkedIn Acquires Newsle, a Google Alerts-Style Service for You and Your Network (The Next Web) LinkedIn’s has announced it has acquired Newsle, a service that lets...
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We’re fortunate to have dozens of new posts to choose from on a daily basis, but this unfortunately means that we can publish only a fraction of the articles that are submitted. And while we can’t respond to individual requests for feedb...
