In a partnership with Portland-based Vizify, Twitter has launched a fun tool that lets its users create a highlight reel based on statistics around their tweets. Search and Social Group members tried out #FollowMe and, in less than 2 minutes apiece, had four videos up and running – and socially shared. Read more →
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Pew Teen Study Points To The Future of Social Media
Pew Research just released a new study looking at how teens use social media, and the findings point to some major potential shifts coming. Obviously, studying younger generations can often be an indicator of where things are going– for example it was the swift adoption of Facebook by the 18-22 crowd 10 years ago that predicted the later rapid rise of that network across all age groups.
High Profile News Org Twitter Hacks Remind Users to Stay Vigilant
Over the last few months a rash of social account hacks of major media outlets have been generating headlines across the industry. In just the month of April alone, the accounts of the Associated Press, NPR, The Guardian and CBS were all breached, with the AP incident causing the biggest stir. The hackers of the AP’s Twitter account posted a fake Read more →
Social Media Security: How To Secure Your Social Presence
Over the past several months there has been an increase in malicious activity by unauthorized users attempting to take control of major news organizations’ social media accounts. Numerous social media accounts have been hijacked to display false information to the organizations’ followers. Read more →
Facebook Home: First Look and Thoughts
As Facebook’s big announcement was approaching all of my friends on my newsfeed were pretty adamant that Facebook would reveal a phone. Instead, Facebook announced Facebook Home. A new mobile experience that makes it easier to connect with your community on Facebook, or just another way to force you to spend more time on Facebook. Read more →
Pinterest Launches Analytics For Business Pages
Pinterest recently launched a new insights section on their platform that will now assist businesses in seeing what has been most pinned from their sites. The insights section is relatively basic but provids some great data to learn about your audience and what they are most interested in. Read more →
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