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Why Twitter Hashtag Infographic Fails

Ari Herzog

Who spends so much time creating a hashtag? Let me simplify this monstrosity of a flowchart: Create your own hashtag if it doesn’t exist and if it is unique both for people to remember and for people to use to amplify your reach. If you are creating a new product then create a hashtag for it. Be obvious about it.

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Best Practices and How to for a Twitter Hashtag Chat

Bare Feet Studios

Hashtag chats on Twitter are one of the best ways to meet new people, learn new things (it’s a very dynamic form of crowd-sourcing!), Plus, it automatically adds the hashtag for you – so less typing. I find it nearly impossible to attend a Twitter chat on my iPhone – though an iPad works fine.

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Social Media News Ticker: Instagram Launches Bolt, Foursquare Debuts New Logo, Facebook Drops Gifts

The Realtime Report

Mobile web, iPad, feature phone, Windows Phone, Paper, and desktop users can still message in their main Facebook apps or sites like before. Social Media News Ticker Bolt deep learning Facebook Facebook Gifts Facebook Messenger Foursquare hashtags Instagram LinkedIn Mitro social media news Swarm Twitter' TechCrunch).

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Social Media During Emergencies

Akamai Marketing

Since I was evacuated last night, as I listened to tsunami sirens wail, huddled in my car with blankets, pillows, dog, husband and a battery charger for phone and Ipad, the glow coming off my personal devices was my outside connection with the world. Meanwhile the #tsunami hashtag was infiltrated with spam.

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Nominate Your Favorite Technology Twitterer(s) for the 2012 #Nifty50 Awards

Webbiquity SMM

The posts were a huge hit on Twitter, with the #Nifty50 hashtag reaching nearly 70,000 people through more than 140,000 tweets and retweets, according to TweetReach. We are working with a potential corporate sponsor to provide Apple iPads to 50 low-income children—the #Nifty50 Kids—somewhere in the U.S.

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How to Successfully Tweet a Call to Action

Kikolani

Say you have the opportunity to give away an iPad that you either bought specifically for this call to action or someone donated to you, here is the chance to alter your tweet with the call to action and the incentive to look something like this: “Retweet this website (link) for a chance to win a new iPad!”

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How 2nd Screen Apps killed off Television Advertising – Social Media TV

Laurel Papworth

If you are a company looking to advertise would you advertise on the TV during the show’s ad break or on the iPad, smart device during the ad break? Everyone on Twitter and Facebook and Zeebox are shouting at the players, the contestants, through smart device 2nd Screen Apps on their iPads, Androids. Then the Ads come on.