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Animals in the Wild ‘Tweet’ Via GPS Trackers

The Realtime Report

In Central Kenya, four GPS-tagged bull elephants are “tweeting” through the hashtag #ElephantsLive. GPS trackers on each elephant allow scouts to follow their location via mobile phone app. Lately wild animals have been joining the fray; two recent examples include sharks off the Australian coast and African elephants.

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An Introduction to Vertical Social Networks

Buffer Social

Rule of thumb: If there is a subreddit about it, there is a vertical social network opportunity — GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) May 25, 2020. In this article, we’ll go through what vertical networks are and the opportunities for businesses to adopt them in their marketing strategy. What are vertical networks?

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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

After having read the immensely resourceful book, The Facebook Effect , I’m starting to understand how our world is changing thanks to social networks. This gave the social network a true exclusive feel and made people long for access. Facebook, for most, was a permanent fixture in the lives of its users.

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Kuwait Has Most Twitter Users Per Capita

The Realtime Report

Only tweets sent by smartphones that included GPS location data were used for the study. Related Stories Social Networking Stats: 80% of World Leaders on Twitter, #RLTM Scoreboard LinkedIn Grows 53% Year-Over-Year in New Zealand Most Popular Newspapers on Twitter: Guess Who’s #1? Click here to read the full paper.

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How Social Media Has Become a Tool For Clinical Research

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Social networking gives sponsors and clinical trial coordinators the ability to target a vast group of e-patients. An isolated patient population still will have a wide range of influences that affects the type of information they’ll likely engage with on social platforms.

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10 Tips For Taking A Vacation From Social Media

SocMed Sean

In fact, I kinda failed which is what prompted me to write down my tips for taking a vacation from social media, both for myself and anyone else that might benefit. So, here we go: 1) Turn off the email sync to your phone – If you’re like me, you get bombarded with emails from different social networks.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

Most location-based services have a few basic social networking features like finding and adding friends, and communicating with friends via private messages. The most widely understood method is through Global Positioning System (GPS) data obtained from navigational satellites in geosynchronous orbit.