article thumbnail

Social Media On The Farm: Crisis Management, Market Research, Education And APIs

The Realtime Report

Now, with the drought of 2012 creating extreme conditions for farmers across a great swath of the U.S., For example, the owners of Harvest Moon Farms, a 35-acre organic operation in southwest Wisconsin, are staging a string of fundraisers called “ Drought Aid 2012.” Thinking why am I harvesting this stuff but moisture is 15%.

API 178
article thumbnail

2012 Google I/O - Is This the 2007 Facebook F8?

Stay N' Alive

As the first Google I/O with the Google+ Team, and a serious read/write API yet to launch, I predict we are about to see an explosion of social apps at a level we haven't seen since Facebook's F8 Conference in 2007 when they launched their platform to the world. Let's look first at the original APIs for both.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

What Twitter could learn from Facebook Deals

Direct Marketing Observations

But in 2012 you cannot mention social media without a reference to 1) Facebook and 2) Twitter. The deals may show up on a users’ news feed, or in ads on the dashboard on the left. Remember when Facebook changed it’s wall into a virtual Twitter feed of your Friend’s activities? Why did Facebook create Places?

Twitter 183
article thumbnail

10 Search and Social Posts You Don’t Want to Miss (1.7)

Josh S Peters

My Facebook feed (a free service I use from time to time, which you may be aware allows me to maintain social contact with my friends – with, of course, a backdrop of adverts that I can choose not to click on…) has been awash with rampant anger regarding Instagram’s now aborted plan to sell your family album.

article thumbnail

Top 10 Brands Killing It on Instagram

Social Media Strategies Summit

In April, the platform saw changes to its API that resulted in the death of Instagram bots, apps that help brands analyze their followers and limitations on the ability to repost UGC. They also quickly adapt new features on Instagram, working to stay present in their followers feeds and maintaining engagement. 5 Glossier. glossier / 1.6

Instagram 139
article thumbnail

The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Foursquare’s geolocation API was used for geofilters and location tagging in apps like Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram. Facebook celebrates one billion and acquires Instagram (2012) Eight years after its launch (from Zuck’s Harvard dorm room), Facebook announced its user base had reached one billion users. “If

article thumbnail

12 Myths Holding You Back From Instagram

Later

According to the rumor mill, your posts could be “shadowbanned” (blocked from the Instagram feed) for using the same hashtags over and over, or liking too many posts. . As an Instagram Partner, we have explicit permission to use the API, so your account is always safe and secure! Thankfully, shadowbanning is not a real thing. .