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How We Connect Our Engineers Directly To Buffer Customers with Customer Engineering Days

Buffer Social

It was an awesome bonding experience and a great way to bring everyone across the company–from the People Team, to Engineers, Designers, and Finance–closer to customers. Each team member had at least one Customer Quality Time session scheduled during the year, but our Design, Engineering, and Product Teams had three to four.

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How We’ve Changed Our Engineering Mindset to Become Builders Again

Buffer Social

I've been working at Buffer since 2014, and even before I joined, I was always impressed by the Buffer team's product and engineering culture: how quick they shipped improvements and how close everyone was to the users (not uncommon to see engineers responding to comments on Twitter!).

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Search Engine Optimization THEN Blogging THEN Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

Nonetheless, as I was identifying their needs; talking about where they are now; and what they’re goals and challenges are, one of the partners was skeptical about search engine optimization (SEO). And links are a critical part of rising in the search engine rankings. Yes, I’m tragically connected . ” Why?

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Twitter Engineer Fired On Twitter Calls Musk’s Team “A Bunch Of Cowards”

Forbes Social Media

The Android developer frets over Twitter’s near-future: “No one trusts anyone within the company anymore.”.

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Elon Musk, Bill Gates, And Joe Biden Hacked On Twitter, Likely Using Social Engineering Tactics

Forbes Social Media

Recently, Twitter representatives explained how social engineering was likely how hackers gained access to the Twitter back-end and compromised the accounts of high-profile figures, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and even presidential hopeful Joe Biden.

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An Honest Look into our Engineering Team Engagement Survey

Buffer Social

It’s been a busy season for our engineering, product, and design teams at Buffer — what we collectively refer to as EPD. A few key takeaways: Engineering teammates have very distinct and differing needs depending on their tenure at Buffer (6+ years, 2-6 years, less than 2 years). That’s a lot of change.

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Does Buying Facebook Likes Help Search Engine Rankings?

Bill Hartzer

According to this unsolicited commercial email (spam), getting more Facebook Likes will increase your search engine rankings. Googles software engineer, Matt Cutts, has confirmed reports that Google uses social signals, such as links from Facebook and Twitter, as a ranking factor. Search Engine Marketing Social Media'