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What Twitter could learn from Facebook Deals

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I know that the comparisons between Facebook and Twitter are not justified. Facebook is really about developing deeper relationships with friends and family whereas Twitter is more about sharing and consuming information with people in a quick and easy fashion. And now Facebook has created Deals … What has Twitter done ?

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Is Twitter really working for you? 10 questions

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How much, was I shaping my Twitter feed, and how much was Twitter shaping me? Does this mean that although we talk about Twitter being about quality, it is truly driven by quantity to be effective? Do we need to define or redefine what being “effective&# on Twitter really means?

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Conversation Gained-How to Determine Influence in B2B Social Media

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particularly Twitter. By the way, that’s the description of an actual person on Twitter that brands and sells themselves as an influencer. Do you get the sense that they don’t even pay attention to their feed? You will be and are the master of your social domain and you’ll know who the influencers are.

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The Relevance of my Online Relationships has Risen.

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Case in point, I use my Twitter followers and also the people I follow on Twitter as a de facto RSS feed for information about the work I do and the research I need to do my job. So tying that information literally into a search feed, is essentially the same thing.

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How are Those 2022 Predictions Working Out?

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It’s not just Twitter and Facebook anymore either. In fact, chances are, on any given day, a headline that you see in your email, or online, or in ‘your feed”, was fueled by social and you may not even know it. It is virtually impossible to avoid rubbing bumpers with social media on a day-in and day-out basis.

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Five Simple Rules for Better Tweeting [Infographic]

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Often times reading Twitter feeds can seem almost post-apocalyptic. You scroll through your feed and you see nothing redeeming. never fear, there’s always Twitter. never fear, there’s always Twitter. A vast wasteland of nothing. Fun fact, we used to refer to the World Wide Web with the same disdain.

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