Back in August we heard about the upcoming real time twitter activity streams but, since then, not many of us have seen them. Today, I was lucky to observe this functionality in one of the twitter accounts I admin. See…
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A great filter at last: Facebook Pages Custom Sharing
It’s a little bit over two years since when I wrote about the desirability of a language filter for social media news ‘streams’. But while Facebook has given the world one, probably because I missed its initial introduction, I made the…
Why do we retweet?
What are the primary motivations for retweeting? There are countless of quasi answers out there but very little substantial research. Unfortunately I do not bring you one. I run a little experiment the other day. I said I was running…
Hootsuite can post to a WordPress.com blog
Hootsuite can post to a WordPress.com blog. I am really impressed by this feature. And the reason I am writing this post is to explore the capabilities. Does the twitter character limit apply? Can I upload pictures and videos? Update…
Posted in Social media, Tech News
Groupon: it’s not sales, it’s marketing
“it’s a great marketing tool. just not great with making profit.”. The quote above is from an unnamed business owner and I found it in a recent study by Utpal M. Dholakia, an associate professor of marketing at the Jones…
Categories of suggested facebook pages reduced
Minutes after I had complained about the assortment of categories that facebook used to classify the suggested pages (see here), I noticed that they had been significantly reduced.
Posted in Social media
Retweeting is the best FollowFriday.
The norms of twitter behavior are pretty much user generated. @ Replies, retweets, hashtags to name a few, were all invented by twitter users as a kind of behavior first, and then were turned to application functionality. Such a kind…
A biz social media account should follow back?
I am not adamant on this but I think it is right: a business account in a social medium, should reciprocate friending/following etc wherever possible (in facebook pages it is impossible) as a courtesy to the people engaging with it.…
Posted in Business, Social media
Consumers Trust Their Friends Less
…social networks themselves may be contributing to the decline in trust. Platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have allowed people to maintain larger circles of casual associates, which may be diluting the credibility of peer-to-peer networks. In short, the more…
Posted in Business, Social media
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