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Why Reddit Continues to be Relevant

Idaconcpts

Way back in August 2010, the social news website Digg.com updated to version 4 – more or less sealing its doom. Reddit is (was?) So why did these Digg users embrace Reddit as their new social news website home? Digg’s main competition. An Example.

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Digg vs. Reddit: Reddit's Staff is Better » Techipedia | Tamar.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The story did quite well on Digg and on Reddit, with Reddit users noticing that one of the fish forms actually looked very much like the Reddit logo. The story did quite well on Digg and on Reddit, with Reddit users noticing that one of the fish forms actually looked very much like the Reddit logo.

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Measuring your Social Media Impact? Meet your new Best Friend!

Harp Interactive

Backlinks, mentions and results for social news services such as Digg, Reddit, Newsvine & more, Mentions and backlink count from popular social bookmarking services including Delicious, StumbleUpon and Tweetmeme to name a few, Backlinks and search results on Micro-blogging sites, Answer Services like Yahoo Answers and.

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This Week in Social Media – 4/3/2013

Social Media Marketing

One particular favorite was YouTube, which announced that as of this month, they had received the maximum number of submissions and would be shutting down for a decade , after which time they would reopen and announce the best video on YouTube. Commentary It's not always easy to get your brand loved on some sites like Reddit.

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Digital PR: Finding Brand Ambassadors

Proactive Report

But in most cases a brand ambassador is likely to be someone with a decent following online, either on their blog, Facebook, Twitter or other social news sites like Digg , Reddit or StumbleUpon. Do a social audit and locate everyone who speaks positively about your brand.

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Book Review: Social Media Marketing

Webbiquity SMM

She provides an excellent taxonomy of the social media landscape, categorizing the different types of social media tools into: • Social News Sites (Digg, Reddit, Kirtsy, etc.). Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc.). Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). Tweet This!

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The Pork and Beans video enlisted in familiar faces across the YouTube culture. With over 1 billion video views on YouTube per day, if you have a great video that shows your passion for the product and the right audience comes along, you can find your video in the spotlight. The video above is one of the first iPod touch commercials.

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