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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Microblogging platforms. Users can like, share, comment on posts and follow other users and businesses. Form communities and discuss relevant news within them. Stay active in the comment section of Weibo Stories. Microblogging platforms. Share news, articles and other content relevant to your followers.

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Social Media Citizens Hate BP + 4 Other Social Media News Items

Firebelly

Twitter to Change Links and How They Are Displayed By Ben Parr In an effort to bypass the obscurity of shortened links and to prevent malware and phishing attacks, Twitter has begun the rollout of t.co, its official URL shortener, along with some major changes to how the microblogging platform handles links. Your comment could not be posted.

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

Other than your company’s website, most mentions were likely in well-known online news sites or trade industry publication sites. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.). Vocus provides a rich set of tools for traditional and social media monitoring, media outreach and news distribution.

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Jenn Herman’s Three Favorite Not-So-Secret Instagram Tips for You

agora pulse

“If you mention a busy username in a comment, that person or brand might not see the notification. ’ “And, yes, Agorapulse gives you a way to add a location tag to your news feed posts. “We always talk about hashtags as, you know, the search mechanism to get found by new people. Then read on!

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How companies use video content on social media

Visually SM

On the other hand, for the Q&A, you can use questions that show up in comments or publish a post a few days before the shooting, asking users to send you questions about a specific theme. Launching products or announcing news on social media is an excellent way to generate engagement in your channels and increase SEO relevance.

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Journalist Social Media Usage Increases, Concerns About.

Adam Sherk

So it’s not surprising that 84% of the journalists indicated that news and information delivered via social media was “slightly less” or “much less” reliable/vetted than news delivered via traditional media. A similar difference exists for microblogging sites like Twitter. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Twitter's Retweet feature (beta)

The Marketing Blog

19 am Twitter’s Retweet feature (beta) Jump to Comments Many of you might have already seen this, but just-incase you haven’t here is the update. Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 1 Comment Filed under Web 2.0 Home About In the Media Basics of Search engine optimization (SEO) Entrepreneurial resources November 11, 2009.7:19

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