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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Adds Photo Tagging, Facebook Acquires Oculus VR

The Realtime Report

Facebook takes another crack at read-it-later with “Save” button – Facebook is currently testing a new feature; the read-it-later ‘Save’ button on articles in the web News Feed allows users to create a section of bookmarked sites on their profile (TechCrunch). Foursquare. Any social media updates that we missed?

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Why a Social Credit Score is an Empty and Dangerous Notion

Waxing UnLyrical

I’m being challenged to a battle of egos by a stranger on Twitter: “@pierreloic your Klout Score is 33 (I’m a 51). Check out your @klout profile today.”. She’s after all “a 63″ and the Klout resident expert on all things bacon and Kim Kardashian. Guest post by Pierre-Loic Assayag. I’m glad we didn’t let it.

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

SocMed Sean

If you ask me what my Klout score is …I’ll likely vomit. They use numbers like “friends”, “followers” and…ewww…”Klout” to determine whether they are doing social right. I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. So, should you ignore the numbers? To what avail?

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Klout and Peerindex – social network loyalty cards?

The Way of the Web

Like a lot of people, I’m registered on both Klout and Peerindex , which both attempt to track my online influence in slightly different ways to give one overall score which can be compared to others in my areas of interest. Tancredi, headphones and promo information all via Peerindex. Measuring influence or just tracking loyalty?

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Will You Abandon Your Friends to Seek Real Relevance

Convince & Convert

Now your Google+, your Foursquare. There’s a lot of conversation these days about influence or outreach and Klout , with Klout’s new algorithm change recently. You know what I’m talking about. You’ve got to write a book. You have to keep up your blog. You have to keep up your Twitter stream.

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BrainDump: 101+ Things You MUST Know About Social Media For Business

SocMed Sean

Twitter 27) Twitter is not just about people eating oatmeal and sharing where they checked in on FourSquare. If you doubt that, read my Twitter feed …not an oatmeal tweet to be found. FourSquare 70) Please don’t publish every check-in to Twitter and Facebook. Klout/Kred 73) Klout and Kred are games.

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Fetching Friday – Resources Mashup and a Little Something Personal

Kikolani

Influencing the influencer – learn about the new social media influencer, plus look at how tools like Klout measure influence. Foursquare marketing guide – 14 tips on how to effectively market your business through Foursquare with examples of successful Foursquare marketing campaigns.

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