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Recurring Tweets Outlawed By Twitter Rules

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There have been many reports that Twitter has “announced&# that recurring tweets would become a Terms of Service Violation. We don’t want to see any duplicate tweets whatsoever- They pollute Twitter, and tools shouldn’t be given to enable people to break the rules. Update: Bill Barnett pointed out in a comment Oct.

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Craigslist Isn’t Facebook - And That’s Good

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Considered within the narrow definition of high growth social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, it's easy to see why some wonder why Craigslist hasn't joined the social revolution, and why the site hasn't undergone significant changes to its features and user interface to remain "competitive." But to look at.

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Under the Social Media Influence

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The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size Doesn’t Prove Influence on Twitter, on Read Write Web , cites a recent survey that found “Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to determining influence.&# “Retweet influence&# ? “Mention influence&# ? of others.&# of others.&#

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BP Destroyed the Gulf, So Forget Your Brand. Huh?

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That seems to be the basic premise of a recent post by Leroy Stick , the creator of the wildly popular Twitter account @BPGlobalPR , a biting satire of British Petroleum’s feeble PR (and clean-up) efforts in one of the worst toxic incidents in world history. The brand, by a modern definition, is EVERYTHING. Italics mine.)

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Witness Google, with Google Buzz, which has generated some interest but doesn’t really seem poised to destroy Twitter. This is definitely the year of location-based social media, and a lot of interesting things are going to happen in the next nine months. Once an entity gets enough momentum, it will always be what it has become.

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Live Tweeting Requires Ethical and Legal Considerations

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On the other hand, the art of critical commentary goes back to at least Shakespeare’s time, so it’s definitely established both in common practice and in the law that reproducing information, even copyrighted information, is acceptable under certain circumstances.

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Social Media and Your Ever-Expanding Brand

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These definitions were fairly accurate until quite recently. If you accept that customer experience is an important component of your brand, then everything posted about your company on Twitter, Facebook, a blog, or anywhere else online is a tiny part of your brand. So what does this mean in the social media world?