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“The Algorithm,” Explained

Likeable

Algorithms are what make your social feed possible. Every social network uses an algorithm to determine what content shows up in a user’s feed, as well as what ads to serve. From a content perspective, the algorithm used to be simple: It found what was most recently posted, and ordered your feed in reverse chronological order.

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17 Plugins to Improve Your WordPress Blog

Ari Herzog

Feed Pauser halts the syndication of a new blog post for up to 20 minutes to let me ensure there are no typos and that the published appearance is how it was intended. WPTouch provides a mobile-friendly view of this blog for smartphones and other mobile devices. Let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

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23 WordPress Plugins I Use: Part 5

Ari Herzog

Feed Pauser allows me to publish a post but pause its feed publication up to 20 minutes. If you are like me and usually make typos, or don’t like how the final content is displayed, pausing feed publication is useful. You can view it by scrolling to the very bottom of this page. Let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

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20 Important TikTok Stats Marketers Need to Know in 2020

Hootsuite

Figures released from mobile data and analytics company AppAnnie show that TikTok tops the download charts this year. Most credit TikTok’s high usage figures to the algorithm that powers its For You feed, sucking viewers in one video at a time. However, it has already surpassed LinkedIn, Reddit, Snapchat, Twitter, and Pinterest.

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The Ultimate List of Social Media Definitions You Need to Know

Hootsuite

This is a digital file, such as a PDF or EPUB, for reading on a computer, mobile device, or dedicated ebook reader. A feed is an updated list of all the new content posted by the accounts a user follows on social media. Rather than being purely chronological, most social media feeds are controlled by an algorithm. See News feed.

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78 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Tips, Guides, Tools and Strategies of 2010 (So Far)

Webbiquity SMM

Kevin Barenblat presentes a taxonomy of social media failure types, including “canned responders,&# spammers, lurkers and serial re-tweeters. A collection of short summaries and links to a huge list of posts about Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, mobile marketing and business development.