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Top Five: Social Networks Take Action on Politics

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top Five: Social Networks Take Action on Politics. This week's top five social media must-know news features Facebook & Twitter's new rules for political content, Google's action on scammers, new features from Snapchat & LinkedIn. Twitter introduces new candidate labels. Sherrilynne Starkie. followers .

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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. — SS. — SS . Photo by Sam Shavers.

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How to be smart on Twitter

Sherrilynne Starkie

Twitter has gone mainstream as people, brands and organizations flock to the social network. Maybe there is no real value in Twitter, or at least, no value in the way a brand is using Twitter. Start by taking a good look the Twitter community. This is an indication of how these followers tend to use Twitter.

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Infographic: Twitter facts

Sherrilynne Starkie

Twitter is now truely mainstream; it’s not just for the cool kids anymore. Here’s a round up of some recent facts and figures about one of the world’s most popular social networks from the folks at Infographics Archive. Email marketing goes social. Email marketing goes social. Related articles.

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Boosting Twitter ads reach

Sherrilynne Starkie

Twitter is taking promoted tweets to 500 million users, many of whom aren’t even logged into the social network, as part of a pilot program announced by Deepak Rao on the Twitter blog. The reach expansion sums up a year of advertising innovation for Twitter.

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Top five: social networks are cleaning up their acts

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top five: social networks are cleaning up their acts. In this week's top 5 must-know social media news, we see major social networks rolling out initiatives to protect privacy and increase transparency. Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Pinterest are all featured. Twitter has suspended 1.2 followers .

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Will private conversations change Twitter?

Sherrilynne Starkie

Social network Twitter has introduced a new feature: Private Conversations and it just might be a game changer. Twitter says that users can create groups in just a few taps and when someone is added to a group, he or she will receive a notification. Twitter’s official blog offers few answers. unfinishedbusiness.