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Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Opinion , Social Media > Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators Content Aggregators are Killing Content Creators by Tamar Weinberg on September 23, 2009 Share This is a guest post from Josh Schnell, founder of Macgasm.net and web developer.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

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22 Best Places for Finding Content to Share on Social Media

Social Media Strategies Summit

Content Tool for Social Media – Tumblr. Packed full of quality visuals and links to interesting articles and other media, Tumblr is a content curator’s dream — particularly if you’re focused on trending topics that appeal to a younger audience , like fashion and travel. Content Tool for Social Media – Feedly.

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How To Be A Hashtag Hacker

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It has evolved from being just a symbol into allowing people to easily aggregate and organize tweets, status updates, and photos that all have something in common throughout Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google +, Tumblr, and Pinterest. For brands, hashtags can be a great way to get costumers interacting with a product or promotion.

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Think Twice About Automating Your Social Media Efforts

SocMed Sean

Personally, I do leverage tools like Paper.li, but as an aggregation tool, not for the purpose of filler tweets. Share this on LinkedIn Share this on Tumblr Share this on del.icio.us Other, more controversial suggestions included allowing automated services to generate tweets for your or using filler tweets like paper.li

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It’s All About.SOCIAL

The Realtime Report

For brands that find it difficult to pick a single social media channel, there’s the option of pointing a.SOCIAL domain to a social media aggregation site. Social media aggregation is beneficial for customers who don’t have the time to follow your brand across a handful of third-party platforms. – Tumblr. – Twitter.

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The New Dilemma: Social Media Exposes Us to Too Much, Too Often

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I will also cover some of the popular ways that power users use useful services and features to better organize and aggregate the constant flow of high quality, popular content. Popular blogging platforms like WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr have make it possible for anyone to publish content on the Internet in a matter of minutes.