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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

Hootsuite

Tumblr and the age of the microblog (2007) In 2007, the social network described as “Twitter meets YouTube and WordPress” came a-tumblin’ along when 17-year-old David Karp launched Tumblr from his bedroom. The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr.

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PeopleBrowsr v. Twitter: The Arguments On Each Side — And What’s At Stake

The Realtime Report

Yesterday, a San Francisco court gave PeopleBrowsr, an provider of Twitter analytics services, a temporary restraining order against Twitter. The court ruling forces Twitter to maintains PeopleBrowsr’s full access to Twitter’s firehose of data. Do you think that fits the state of the Twitter developer market?).

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Twitter Changes the Social Data Ecosystem

Net-Savvy Executive

Today''s announcement that Twitter is buying Gnip raises big questions about the market for social media data. Twitter has bought other companies in the social media analysis space— BackType (2011), Bluefin Labs (2013), Trendrr (2013)—but Gnip is a bigger deal. Social media analysis twitter'

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Twitter and Facebook Both Quietly Kill RSS, Completely

Stay N' Alive

Last year I shared how Twitter was moving more and more towards a closed, less-standards oriented model of sharing content as they upgraded their design to bring more people to the Twitter.com website. 1) on the other hand was deliberate, in line with the "keep Twitter simple" principle which we used to approach the product as a whole.

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What New Social Media Management Features Did Agorapulse Release in 2018? [INFOGRAPHIC]

agora pulse

The option to reply in Private Message (Facebook) or Direct Message (Twitter) is perfect for when you want to talk to a user without the whole online world listening in. So, when the Instagram API permitted this functionality, we do everything possible to bring this to our users. (We Agorapulse began in 2011 as a Facebook app.

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Monday’s 5 Social Media Must-Reads

Firebelly

When are your Twitter friends online? By Brad McCarty There’s something magical about Twitter. The State of Community Management in 2011. Using Tools & APIs To Track Your Social Media Strategy. The truth is that there are at least 25 viable metrics you can use to evaluate the success of your social media efforts.

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Memolane’s Success at SXSW

Mindjumpers

You can follow her on Twitter at @ibeniben. They were nominated in the Experimental category at the Interactive Award Show and were positively received as they launched the public beta-version during SXSW 2011. As Eric says: “We want to stay, where our friends are, i.e. Twitter, Foursquare, LastFM etc.&#.

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