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Experiment: Do Other Social Networks Hate YouTube Links?

Hootsuite

There’s a theory going around that social networks (mainly Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter) give preference to posts that use their native video solutions. But unlike that brooding new guy at school with the mysterious scar and sad eyes, the inscrutability of Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and the rest is usually infuriating, not alluring.

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The Average Social Media Privacy Policy Takes an Hour to Read

The Realtime Report

In our haste to snag an online deal, send a tweet, or minimize an annoying “our site has cookies” pop-up, most of us accept privacy policies before we fully understand their terms and conditions. The app is popular among Generation Z (1995-2005), and 30% of GenZ users are 18 or under.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

2005: Flickr. 2010: Twitter. Do I want to use Twitter to tell the world what Stephen Black ate for lunch or do I want to connect with an audience interested in art and creative writing? My first podcast, audio interviews/explorations of Singapore combined with music, appeared on a music site run by Cosa Nostra.

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The Top 3 Social Media iPhone Apps

Firebelly

YouTube was founded in February of 2005 and currently over 6 billion hours of video are watched each month on the site. I was surprised to find Twitter coming in the number eight slot. With over 554,750,000 users I think Twitter is the up and coming platform.

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What Should We Expect from the New MySpace?

Mindjumpers

When Specific Media Executives, the Vanderhook brothers, last June announced to have acquired MySpace with superstar Justin Timberlake for just $35 million (News Corporation with Rupert Murdoch paid $580 million for it back in 2005), the buzz about the new MySpace started to spread.

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Social Networking Stats: Reddit Earns 56 Billion Pageviews in 2013, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Twitter: over 218 million monthly active users. via Twitter. The site saw 56 billion pageviews from 731 million unique visitors, according to the Reddit blog. Posts are then ranked as users vote each submission ‘up’ or ‘down;’ this rank determines where a post appears on the site. Facebook: 1.19

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How I Became the Person Most Mentioned by Digital Marketers on Twitter

Convince & Convert

That happened to me – and you’re damn right I dad-milked that sucker – when it was announced last week that (among digital marketers) I am the most retweeted and most mentioned person on Twitter (PDF). How is Pharrell the #10 most mentioned person on Twitter among digital marketers? That guy is EVERYWHERE!

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