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6 social media marketers on the future of social messaging

Sprout Social

Ten-cent text messages, AIM chat rooms with your best friends and glittery MySpace pages with bulletin boards are just a few nostalgic elements from the early days of social media. Soon enough, features like direct messages and @-mentions arrived, changing the trajectory of social media forever.

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How One Unhappy Customer Multiplies Across Social Media

Firebelly

The company was arrogant -- all but the social media manager who chimed in on my post. The service was questionable. In my instance the company's policy, which is special to Firestone and not to the industry as a whole, stood in the way.

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Top 10 Powerful Moments That Shaped Social Media History Over the Last 20 Years

Buffer Social

Do you remember your first social media profile? Or, how about your first social media post? My first profile was on Myspace , my first friend was “Tom from Myspace,” and my first post was something like, “Myspace is awesome!” ” The rest is history.

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Myspace: “A place for friends” (2003) Friendster rival Myspace (originally styled as MySpace) quickly became the go-to site for millions of hip teens. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. 2005 marked the apex of Myspace. Unfortunately, the site’s spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise.

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A Brief History of Social Media [Infographic]

Oktopost

In 2003, Myspace launched and took off across the web. While younger people were agonizing over their top 8 on Myspace, LinkedIn slowly grew, acquiring just 20 signups per day. Over 2008 and 2009, Facebook and Myspace continued to soar, earning millions of unique users across the world.

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Social Pros 30 – Eric Schwartzman, Social Media Boot Camp

Convince & Convert

Huge thanks to data-driven social media management software company Argyle Social for their presenting sponsorship, as well as Infusionsoft , Janrain , and Jim Kukral at DigitalBookLaunch. They did some research around media attention and visibility for social media platforms. The RSS feed is: [link].

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55 (of the) Best Social Media Tips, Tactics and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Gordon Plutsky reports on recent research showing that, of companies embracing social media for inbound marketing, 90% are doing the job internally, with an increasing number making social media management a dedicated role rather than just another task for already harried marketing staff. Social Media Trends.