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Praying and piggybacking: Who is Nesamani and why are brands talking about him?

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The world yesterday realized that meme culture is well and truly alive in South India, for all of a sudden, social users everywhere were praying for a fictional South Asian character. A user on a Facebook memes page asked a harmless question about hammers, leading to a Tamil user making a reference to Nesamani. interactions.

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Social Networking Stats: Tumblr Serves 20 Billion Page Views Per Month, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

Facebook: 1 billion active users. via Facebook. Posterous: 15 million monthly users. via Posterous. With over 80 million blogs and tens of millions of users ( GigaOM ), the platform has grown popular for sharing pictures, stories and memes without losing its “intimate, community feel.” via LinkedIn.

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What is Reddit, and Should Your Brand Be Using It?

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Every thread has an OP (original poster) who started it. For entertainment via memes, humor subreddits, or to discuss TV or movies. Subreddits serve as mini-communities within the site — like Facebook Groups, but public — and foster user interaction around common interests. Connecting with others who share their interests.

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Three Creative Ways to Use Social Media to Promote your Event

Webbiquity SMM

User numbers are steadily rising year-on-year across all platforms, and this upward trend shows no sign of stopping: a staggering 67% of online adults now have a Facebook account. On average, only 2-6% of your Facebook followers are now likely to see updates published on your event page. The statistics are disheartening.

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What Are You Looking Forward to in Social Media in 2020?: Experts Round-Up

agora pulse

Unless you catch lightning in a bottle with some sort of meme-worthy one-off, it is very, very difficult to sustain social media reach and engagement with a content approach that is non-episodic. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and even LinkedIn have all updated their brand color palettes to be brighter.

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23 Simple Ways to Increase Facebook Engagement (Free Calculator)

Hootsuite

For commitmentphobes, the word “engagement” might be a terrifying and loaded one — but for social media marketers, Facebook engagement is the holy grail. Of course, we’re not talking about popping the big Q: we’re talking about growing your interactions (reactions, shares, comments) and audience for your Facebook Page. Keep it short.

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“I want a Twitter for All the Various Parts of the Government”

Social Media Strategery

Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0 Blogroll Andrea DiMaio Andrew Wilson's Posterous BlogWrite for CEOs Business As I See It Buzz Bin Chris Brogan Clay Shirky Common Craft Corporate Hallucinations Digiphile Dion Hinchcliffe DorobekINSIDER Enterprise 2.0 Facebook firewall gov20 government government 2.0

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