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Social Media News Ticker: Instagram Launches Bolt, Foursquare Debuts New Logo, Facebook Drops Gifts

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Check out all the latest social media news from the last two weeks, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Foursquare: Facebook. Foursquare.

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Social Networking Stats: Twitter’s User Growth Exceeds Expectations, #RLTM Scoreboard

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Foursquare: 50 million users. via Foursquare. million (earlier projections expected this number to be only around $282.8 Instagram: 200 million monthly active users. via Instagram. Vine: 40 million registered users. Tagged: 11 million unique monthly users. via Tagged. Pinterest: 70 million users. via The Next Web.

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Social Media News Ticker: Crowdfunding Coming To YouTube Soon

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YouTube will soon let you crowdfund projects directly on the site – YouTube recently revealed a “Creator Preview” that serves as a teaser for upcoming new features, including a stand-alone mobile app for content creators and a crowd-funding option that allows users to contribute money directly through YouTube (Engadget).

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GLS Update: Americans are not checking in

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Our good friends at the Pew Internet and American Life Project have found that, while your personal newsfeed may be flooded with check-ins and friends adding locations to their statuses, most Americans are not revealing their locals. To be specific, only 28 percent of mobile phone users in the U.S. are using the services.

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Social Networking Stats: Mobile Accounts for 43% of LinkedIn’s Traffic, #RLTM Scoreboard

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Foursquare: 45 million users. LinkedIn recently projected that mobile would account for half of the social networking platform’s traffic ; based on the company’s 1st quarter results, that could be a reality soon. Tumblr: 184 million blogs. via Tumblr. Instagram: 200 million users. via Instagram. via Tagged. via Reddit.

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The Gamification of News

Social Media Marketing

Now, Google is in the news (literally) with a gamification project of their own, and I think it has some potential. You'll probably feel like the badge adoption seems familiar; after all, Foursquare made this a central part of their service. Google plans further developments to this project as they get feedback and observe the usage.

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Social Networking Stats: 8 in 10 U.K. Twitter Users Log In Via Mobile, #RLTM Scoreboard

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Foursquare: 45 million users. In 2014, new estimates from eMarketer project that 82% of U.K. Tumblr: 177 million blogs. via Tumblr. Instagram: 150 million users. via Instagram. Vine: 40 million registered users. Tagged: 20 million unique monthly users. via Tagged. via TechCrunch. Pinterest: 70 million users. via The Next Web.