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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Debuts New Ad Types, Vine Gets Direct Video Messaging

The Realtime Report

Coming to your Twitter feed: 15 new types of ads – Twitter is debuting 15 new types of ad products, including ‘app install’ ads, which have proven successful for Facebook; the ads are designed to appeal to e-commerce companies and mobile-game developers (WSJ, re/code ). Any social media updates that we missed?

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Facebook Updates that May Warrant a Marketing Plan Tweak!

Harp Interactive

They are most likely to interact with brands and each other on social networks…especially Facebook where they spend hours on end. Nielsen reported that in January, U.S. It is hard for marketers to keep up with all the developments on Facebook, let alone in the social universe.

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This Week in Social Media – 8/7/2013

Social Media Marketing

Industry Social network usage rates for seniors ages 65 and older have tripled since 2009, one in every five Internet users is now on Twitter and 72% of online adults are social networking users, according to the Pew Research Center''s Internet & American Life Project''s latest report.

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What Pinterest’s E-Commerce Push Means for Brands

Likeable

In fact, the company’s co-founder and CEO is adamant that Pinterest is not a social network , but in fact “a catalog of ideas.” The platform also opened up access to its Shopping Ads by adding them to its self-serve Ads Manager tool, allowing brands to easily promote items from their existing product feed.

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5 Alternatives to LinkedIn Elevate for Superior Employee Advocacy

Socialmedia.biz

Over the years LinkedIn has released several useful features and tools that have helped distinguish the platform as the go-to social network for business. While the other popular social networks only seem to be copying each other ’s latest top functionalities, LinkedIn stands apart in this regard.

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5 Alternatives to LinkedIn Elevate for Superior Employee Advocacy

Socialmedia.biz

Over the years LinkedIn has released several useful features and tools that have helped distinguish the platform as the go-to social network for business. While the other popular social networks only seem to be copying each other ’s latest top functionalities, LinkedIn stands apart in this regard. Image source: [link].

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Why Critics of Klout Are Missing the Big Picture

Convince & Convert

The most recent example was from B2B social media thinker Paul Gillin who wrote a post unveiling the flaws in Klout’s ranking scheme. While we’re on the topic of crimes against math, let’s examine Nielsen ratings, which are used to set prices for billions of dollars of television advertising in this country.

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