Jeff Esposito

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Who do you trust on social media?

Jeff Esposito

With CNN they wanted to be out ahead of a site like Reddit or some dude Tweeting images of bullet holes in his kitchen. In the case of Forbes, they’ve fallen victim to the idiom of Content is King, empowering contributors to produce content for their site to appease the search engines while giving the contributors a credible pulpit.

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Another reason to love Livefyre

Jeff Esposito

Well all that changed when I received the email below from the CEO from Livefyre: Hi Jeff, At roughly 1:00AM PST on Thursday morning, the Amazon EC2 server hosting service that Livefyre uses suffered an outage due to network errors, effectively disabling Livefyre as well other companies such as Foursquare, Quora, Reddit, and Hootsuite.

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Reflecting on last year’s top Tweets

Jeff Esposito

The tweet that wins the Internet for @ tacobell via @ reddit twitter.com/unmarketing/st…. I hate when people point at their wrist and ask for the time. Do I point at my crotch and ask where’s the bathroom? MommyGoggles™ LLC (@mommygoggles) June 11, 2012. Scott Stratten (@unmarketing) June 25, 2012. If you Auto-DM = unfollowed.

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