Janet Fouts

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Hashtags, the Good the Bad, the Oh So Ugly

Janet Fouts

I stuck to Twitter posts simply because they’re easier to embed, but most or all of these hashtags appear across social platforms. Probably the most recent oops was #AskThicke which was intended to be a Twitter style Q&A but quickly became a platform to call him out about misogyny, divorce, his hair and his music among other things.

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Are you using old skool strategies with new media tools?

Janet Fouts

A mindless auto response directing me to take the issue customer service might have resulted in me feeling a bit resentful which might have carried over to my going to the store with a complaint or whining more loudly on Twitter. mindful social social business mindfulsocial Social Media Twitter'

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Who will win the video app wars?

Janet Fouts

Then, just in time for Social Media Marketing World in San Diego, Twitter re-launched Periscope , another real time video app that streams directly to Twitter which they just acquired. Problem with the latter is people on Twitter just troll through streams. It certainly has an advantage with Twitter on it’s side.

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Who will win the video app wars?

Janet Fouts

Then, just in time for Social Media Marketing World in San Diego, Twitter re-launched Periscope , another real time video app that streams directly to Twitter which they just acquired. Problem with the latter is people on Twitter just troll through streams. It certainly has an advantage with Twitter on it’s side.

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Quitting or not, here’s what you can do to be safer with your personal info on #Facebook

Janet Fouts

A company called Cambridge Analytica used Facebook’s API in 2014 to collect personal information from over 50 million Facebook users. Back in 2014 it was perfectly legal for them to do this , and even within the terms of use for Facebook. Here’s more on that. Read the story, it’s pretty mindblowing.