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Top Five: Google is shuttering G+

Sherrilynne Starkie

Top stories this week include Facebook’s crackdown, Google’s continuing investment in quality news, another new Instagram feature, the final throes of Google’s G+ and how all emoji are being treated equal on Twitter. Google supports quality news publishers in digital transformation. Google is shuttering G+.

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RIP Google Plus: The Highs and Lows of the Once Popular Social Network

WebInKnow

Google Plus launched in mid-2011 to great excitement. Initially by invitation only, a clever ploy to get early adopters to sign on, Google Plus became the fastest growing social network in history when it opened to everybody in September 2011.

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2011 Round-Up Of My Social Media Cartoons And Comics

SocMed Sean

2011 was a great year for my blog and I appreciate everyone who stopped by to check it out. The biggest category of content that attracted visitors to SocMedSean.com in 2011 was definitely my social media comic strips. In case you missed them, here are links to all my 2011 social media comics in one post.

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The 10 Key Mobile Trends for 2011

Mindjumpers

hours/week on social networks and 2.2 Juniper Research has released its top ten wireless predictions for 2011, let’s step through and take a look at where they think mobile is going in the coming year. More mobile traffic will make even greater demands on 3G networks. Buyouts and social purchasing power.

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Social Networking Stats: The Skinny on Whisper, Secret & Snapchat, plus #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Google Plus: 343 million monthly active users. if you have additional updates, or a social network that you feel should be on the list. . Snapchat debuted back in September 2011, and has been a fairly big deal for the last year or so.

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Social Networking Stats: 80% of World Leaders on Twitter, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

The #RLTM Scoreboard: Social Networking Stats for the Week. Google Plus: 343 million monthly active users. if you have additional updates, or a social network that you feel should be on the list. . Social Networking Stats: Reddit Earns 56 Billion Pageviews in 2013, #RLTM Scoreboard. Facebook: 1.19

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My Social Networking Primer in 2014

Ari Herzog

I wanted to create new social networking channels on some of the leading platforms and watch them grow. Those LinkedIn and Google+ groups? I already had a Google+ profile and I’ve begun using it more frequently. That Pinterest page I created? — Kneale Mann (@knealemann) March 1, 2011.