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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Twitter’s role as a conduit for the Zeitgeist is unrivaled, and it has almost single-handedly ushered in the era of real-time search, and social CRM. However, it’s important to recognize that 3 times more people use Facebook from a smart phone every month than use Twitter at all. I love Twitter.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Don’t Treat Fans Like Cattle To me, the key insight is less about who checks what first (although it would be interesting to see the impact of smart phone ownership on the results). August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Is Starbucks the Most Dangerous Competitor to Facebook? | E.

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Might the juniors and seniors with smart phones (in keeping with your article’s point of mobile phone ads) receive messages with offers around 11:15 a.m., August 12, 2010 (766) Twitter Stream © 2008-2010 Convince & Convert, LLC. If you were Starbucks, how would you take advantage of this new network?

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

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Twitter is so 2008 The buzz about location came largely at the expense of Twitter, as most of the social media brigade updated their Twitter status infrequently, if at all. Smart phone-toting attendees could snap a photo of each others’ code, and instantly follow one another within the my.SXSW social network.