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Social Media News Ticker: Facebook Tests ‘Buy’ Button, Twitter Acquires CardSpring

The Realtime Report

Check out all the latest social media news from the last two weeks, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, YouTube and Vine: Facebook. Facebook tests new ‘buy’ button for online purchases in U.S. Foursquare.

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Realtime Restaurant Deals: Can LiveDeal Succeed Where Groupon, LivingSocial Failed?

The Realtime Report

There are daily deals from the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial, or the ability to offer deals to consumers checking in or using Foursquare, the location-based social platform. Once diners choose a deal, they transact directly with the restaurant — no middleman, no emails, and nothing to buy ahead of time.

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Social Media Isn’t About The Numbers! Or Is It?

SocMed Sean

The problem is, you can buy friends and followers online through your local black hat shopping cart and no one really knows what a Klout score actually means. Is he one of those annoying Twitter Noobs who simply tweets what he’s eating, where he checked-in on Foursquare, and quotes from popular authors/politicians? To what avail?

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What Twitter could learn from Facebook Deals

Direct Marketing Observations

Users can buy the deal with a credit card, or share it or like it. To adress and fold in what Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt and others had accomplished. I realize that Twitter and Facebook are different but Twitter had had just as much of an opportunity to change the lanscape of social platforms and communications as Facebook has.

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The Rise Of Hispanics On Social Media

Idaconcpts

They predominantly use platforms like Facebook and Twitter, and they often do so from their smartphones. And apps like Facebook and Foursquare and helping them do just that. A coffee shop, for instance, can use Foursquare to promote a free shot of espresso with every large coffee drink. In fact, it should be catered to.

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Danish Startup ‘Podio’ Keeps Store in San Francisco [interview]

Mindjumpers

However, the platform also gives users the ability to build their own ‘apps’ in order to adapt the space to your own needs, which makes Podio stand out from competitors. At Mindjumpers, we are users of the Podio platform and we find the history of the company very exciting. Founder Jon Froda about Podio. > Visit Podio here.

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Is Twitter Crossing the Line Between Useful and Creepy

Convince & Convert

Thus, Twitter is following its now- familiar playbook of watching other companies innovate on its platform, and then either buying that technology, or copying it. Interestingly, this would put Twitter squarely on the turf of Foursquare, as pointed out by Brent Carnduff on Business 2 Community.

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