The interesting thing that happened is that by sharing the check-in on Twitter, Foursquare automatically tagged me as being at airport with a certain @TylerJanderson. We haven’t had the pleasure to meet yet, nevertheless if you look at the resulting tweet, it does look like I am purposefully mentioning him as in his company.
Links are very useful and constitute the raison d’être of the internet. Problem is they look ugly, gibberish and often relay a spamy smell; especially on Facebook. Take a look at the picture below, how ugly is that?!
Any story culminating in a group hug is always great. The path to Twitter ‘addiction’ is one of those stories.
Violence, media black out and watered down stories due to pressures from drug cartels and dozens of case of journalists murdered in Mexico; have caused many residents to turn to blogs and social media — such as YouTube and Twitter — for their news.
Blogging has won! It wasn’t killed, but actually emboldened, by social media. The latter is alive, well and here to stay as are SEO and search engines: Not a simpler landscape to deal with. So what are businesses looking to use the web for growth to do? Three things: Create even better engaging content, feed it through social networks to engage their communities on it and… make sure that content loads super extra fast on their screen.
The “talkative” 20% just needs to get their heads out of their bubble, look around and find a better way to engage non-peers in participating (it can be intimidating y’all!); i.e. potential customers. 180 million unique visitors come to the site every month and new users are signing up at the rate of 300,000 per day or over 3 per second.
How likely would you be to start stalking your Facebook friends if it were to save you time and allow for a more meaningful experience on the social network? So Facebook is twiterizing… again. Mashable and AllFacebook are both calling it “HUGE”. Although the new feature offers some interesting engagement opportunities, it’s actually not that [...]
Both Brian Solis‘ statements are very true but what is this rarity really? ‘Influence’ is one of, if not THE holy grail of social media. In plain English, social influence: it is the ability for a brand to make people do things they want them to do through using social tools. It is defined in the same [...]
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