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Top 10 Brands Killing It on Instagram

Social Media Strategies Summit

In April, the platform saw changes to its API that resulted in the death of Instagram bots, apps that help brands analyze their followers and limitations on the ability to repost UGC. With 400,000+ members around the world, the coworking brand has a global community of users built into their business model. 6 So Worth Loving.

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Sydney Social Media Course – 3 Days with Laptop

Laurel Papworth

Laurel manages massive gaming and online communities including Facebook and forums for reality TV shows such as Junior Masterchef. Since 2005, Laurel has been teaching online community management at the University of Sydney and she has been managing virtual communities since 1989. Laptop hire costs are $50 a day.

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iGoogle Finished – what’s your favourite RSS Dashboard social media monitoring?

Laurel Papworth

It can’t be a purely RSS play as we need gadgets/widgets for API only based services. The mobile version will be retired on July 31, 2012. Really grumpy ! about iGoogle shutting down – if Google can’t find it on the ‘net, nobody can – but I’m sure there are services nearly as good.

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Social Media Training: 3 Day Intensive Advanced Class

Laurel Papworth

Lecture : Laurel was named in 2012 by Forbes magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, and Marketing Magazine named her “Head of Industry, Social Media”. Laurel is the CEO of The Community Crew managing massive gaming and online communities including Facebook and forums for reality TV shows such as Junior Masterchef.

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

The Realtime Report

The uneasy relationship between Twitter and the third-party developer community has been well documented. ” In May of 2012, Williams “advised me that PeopleBrowsr should plan to transition off the Firehose and seek access to a portion of the Firehose data through Twitter’s resale partners Gnip or DataSift.

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Social Pros 30 – Eric Schwartzman, Social Media Boot Camp

Convince & Convert

This crazy API pronouncement and, “You must make everything look the way we make it look,” and, “If you don’t want to do it the way we want to do it, we’re going to revoke your access.” Pinterest has purposefully not published an API precisely because they don’t want to have Twitter’s problems.

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12 Myths Holding You Back From Instagram

Later

So you can rest easy knowing that your posts won’t be banned from Instagram (as long as you follow Instagram’s Community Guidelines of course!). As an Instagram Partner, we have explicit permission to use the API, so your account is always safe and secure! This hoax dates back to 2012, and it’s been rumbling along ever since.