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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. No acknowledgment.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Once online, it caught the attention of executives at Apple who flew him into California to make it a commercial reality. Informational Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime. Would you have known that it was created by an 18-year-old student in his spare time?

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

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

As Chris Garrett explains in his post, if you follow numerous feed bots, you can get the news all the time. For example, just the other day I stumbled upon an Apple press release from 2003. 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.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I contacted the agency handling Justin Nozuka yesterday – fans were spammed for over 15 hrs with the same message both on Facbook and Twitter, with dates for a gig that had already happened and many were so cheesed off like me, that they hid his feed.

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An Introduction to Tumblr

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It’s a microblogging social platform that allows its users to post various types of content, from text and photos to music and videos. In addition to functioning in the traditional blog format, Tumblr also displays content as a stream, much like the news feeds of popular social networks. What is Tumblr?

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The History of Social Media in 33 Key Moments

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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. It was so popular that Apple awarded the app the iOS app of the year in 2015. RIP to Periscope, 2015-2021.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You may as well just subscribe to about 50 feeds and you have digg. Reply BrettFromTibet February 2, 2008 at 4:20 pm I knew the shark had been jumped when they made Microsoft their ad partner and displayed crappy banners for M$ products alongside stories about Ubuntu’s domination and Apple’s PWNing.

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