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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. Let’s envision this scenario: a user has a support issue about an Apple product. Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. I’m going to stop there, though.

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This Week in Social Media – 6/26/13

Social Media Marketing

And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in the This Week in Social Media Magazine. Apple and Android seem to be struggling for dominance. Facebook is working on a news reader. Facebook continues to have a strong foothold in Southeast Asia. Here are 8 sources of Facebook content for brands.

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13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But over the past few months, the Facebook community has become a huge success and is continuing to flourish, and my classmates are slowly beginning to join the network. I look back at Facebook’s emergence as a truly popular and desirable network that has simply gone from good to better. Facebook is clean and usable.

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This Week in Social Media – 6/19/2013

Social Media Marketing

International protests documented on social media, when employees – and customers – go bad, worldwide media spending statistics, the 5 questions that nag social media marketers, why your fans don’t like your Facebook updates, what Bing has in store, video, video, video and more - it''s This Week in Social Media.

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This Week in Social Media – 4/17/2013

Social Media Marketing

Speaking of changing media models, MWW News Discovery Report found that 44% of people get their morning news from Facebook and 29% from Twitter. Just who uses social media? Facebook''s algorithm for sorting your News Feed is perennially misunderstood. Here''s a rundown of what you need to know.

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Every Social Network is Different: Here's What You Need to Know

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you use Twitter regularly, you’d see that it wins as a social news site that provides instantaneous news — at least of that caliber. As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. The right news will hit the front page of Digg quickly.

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Blogging: Social Media is Not Only About Social Media Sites

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Well, for one, social media users — that is, users on social news sites such as Digg, Mixx, Reddit — are not particularly enthusiastic about the proliferation of marketers in their community. This is a huge challenge for someone who wants to sell their product using social media.

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