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Social Media Briefs: Facebook Wants Your Money, Tumblr's Sponsored Trends
Social media was once considered a free medium where brands could organically build their networks of fans and followers. But it has become a competitive marketplace where sponsored content reigns supreme. Will it pay off? Facebook Charges for Reach This week, Facebook announced it would adjust the way posts are
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Social Media Briefs: YouTube Outage, Twitter Pulls a Plug, the Secret Lives of Pins
This week: More social media outages, LinkedIn revealed Showcase Pages and new insight into the value and lifespan of a Pinterest pin.
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Social Media Briefs: SnapChat Snubs Facebook, Tweets with Images Engage More
This week, social media is like a Bravo TV show — one day a billionaire tycoon wants to own you; the next, you're caught up in a sex scandal. SnapChat: Scandals & Acquisitions This week, SnapChat's founders turned down Facebook's $3 billion offer to buy the photo messaging application.
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Social Media Briefs: #FacebookDown, Twitter Goes Public
Some Facebook profiles and pages were down for a while this morning. Downrightnow.com, a site created to tell you when popular web services are experiencing trouble, reported a widespread service disruption, likely from a server issue.
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Social Media Briefs: Snapchat Wins, Facebook Loses, Instagram Gains
Snapchat is worth billions. Facebook loses teens. Instagram gains brands. Thinkr uses only #hashtags.
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Social Media Briefs: Shared Endorsements, Global Tweets, Facebook Privacy for Teens
If you value your privacy on Facebook or Google, take heed of new updates that could affect how the social networks use your information. Google's Shared Ads At the end of last week, Google announced that it had updated its terms of service. The changes give Google the rights to
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Social Media Briefs: Facebook Offers Free WiFi, Instagram Gets Ads, Social Media Careers Soar
Social media can bring us so much. This week, it brings ads to Instagram, free WiFi to Facebook and Sticky Hashtags to Nestivity. Instagram Ad Nauseam? Only recently did we tell you that Instagram "could start selling ad space sometime next year." This week, however, in a blog post,
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Social Media Briefs: Searchable Hashtags, Twitter Alerts and Engagor Chats
It's not entirely clear if humans are changing social media or if social media is changing humans. Perhaps a little of both. Hashtags have permeated the way we find information, while Twitter leverages the power of their ability to deliver real-time updates in times of crisis.
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Social Media Briefs: Ads on Instagram, Filtered Views for Verified Twitter Users
Friday the 13th might be unlucky for some, but it doesn’t seem to be slowing down social media any. This week, speculation about advertisements on Instagram abounds, while studies show that women dominate visual formats on social media. For Verified Users Only Twitter is in the process of rolling out a new feature aimed at
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Social Media Briefs: Twitter Conversations, Facebook Albums, Google Hangouts in HD
It seems like there was a little bit of everything for all the social networks. Let's take a look at what made headlines. Tweet Better Twitter made it easier to keep track of conversations that take place within the microblogging platform.
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Social Media Briefs: Facebook Apps, Social Ads, and Hashtag Help
Social media is a work in progress. This week, Facebook shows us that there's always room for improvement, while Yahoo makes a play for video and Twitter teaches us how to choose the right hashtag. Facebook Changes Third Party App Permissions Facebook rolled out changes to the way third-party apps
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Social Media Briefs: TweetDeck, Google+ Android Updates, PinLeague Top Pinners
Creating a better customer experience and meeting customer demand are two important parts of any social media strategy. Many of this week’s new releases concentrate on oner both of these ideas. A Better TweetDeck Twitter’s chat management tool TweetDeck, which recently received ‘a lighter and simpler design ’
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Social Media Briefs: Social Flows Internally, EveryoneSocial Focuses on Employees
Social media doesn’t go on vacation. Here are a few updates some of our favorite social media management tools received this week. Measuring Your Internal SocialFlow SocialFlow, best known for taking a mathematical approach to measuring social engagement has launched Tally, a new feature that helps companies track external social
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Social Media Briefs: LinkedIn Content Gets Sponsored, Google Gets a Social Search Patent
Social media never takes a break, not even as we enter the dog days of summer. Be it LinkedIn, Google or Facebook, this week provided some engaging updates and gives us something to ponder about the future of social search. Get Sponsored LinkedIn announced that Sponsored Updates, which allow
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