The Realtime Report

AUGUST 27, 2012

As a mobile-friendly platform, Twitter has been used by farmers to share information, check realtime conditions, and connect with customers from its earliest days – CNN reported on this as early as 2009. Now, with the drought of 2012 creating extreme conditions for farmers across a great swath of the U.S.,

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

The hashtag arrives (2007) The strict 140-character limit for tweets set Twitter apart from rivals, including Facebook and Tumblr. But Twitter’s significance was really defined by the hashtag , a symbol that’s helped political organizers and average citizens mobilize, promote, and create awareness.

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Later

OCTOBER 29, 2019

According to the rumor mill, your posts could be “shadowbanned” (blocked from the Instagram feed) for using the same hashtags over and over, or liking too many posts. . And when asked about the shadowban conspiracy, Instagram stated that “it doesn’t hide people’s content for posting too many hashtags or taking other actions”. .

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 24, 2012

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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