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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

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An avatar is a visual representation of a person for use in digital contexts. On social media, the term “avatar” also refers to your profile picture—the image that represents you on the platform. Most individual users choose a photo as their social media avatar, sometimes supplemented by a digital frame or filter. Microblogging.

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13 Social Networks That Are a Big Deal in Non-English Speaking Regions

Hootsuite

Sina Weibo is an app for personal microblogging. The makers of Line offer a collection of associated gaming apps, as well as an online avatar community called Line Play. Baidu is China’s number one search engine. Source: WeChat. Marketers can send or schedule messages in WeChat with the WeChat App for Hootsuite. Sina Weibo.

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How to Audit Your Social Media Efforts: 20+ Questions to Ask Yourself

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

If you are AT&T and your avatar was the face of your CEO, you’re doing it wrong. If you are building your *personal* brand, by all means, use your avatar (and face!). People are following AT&T because they care about AT&T, not about some no-name behind the company. Yes, I did just say that.

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How Spying On Your Friends Causes Reevaluation of Endorsed Content

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Some people have avoided making that call on the Internet thus far through avatars, but that won’t fly with FriendFeed. In a way, FriendFeed makes the Internet more like the “real world&# where you have to think about what your actions say about you. Reply Tamar Weinberg May 1, 2008 at 6:47 pm Brilliantly stated, Jacob.

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How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are some tips you can apply to your Facebook marketing strategy that will put your Facebook Page leaps and bounds ahead of the competition: Maximize Your Avatar Visibility Profile pictures on Facebook can have a maximum size of 200×600 pixels. SEO for Facebook Pages Your Page is visible to search engines!

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How I Network on Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter, Pownce, and other “microblogging&# platforms really don’t fit in the type of social networks that I intend to illustrate here. But how would you count how often you “visit&# Twitter? Reply Tamar Weinberg December 19, 2007 at 3:46 pm Miriam – that was intentional. The jury is still out for me on Twitter.

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Tweet Spinner Review: A Powerful Application to Manage Your Tweets

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

You can save your profile (bio, URL avatar, background color scheme, and background graphic) to the server and upload a custom one at will. Profile Rotator Here’s another great feature of Tweet Spinner. You can even test to see if one performs better than another. Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.