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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #257

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Simulated Worlds Will Soon Be Indistinguishable From Reality - Motherboard. What if virtual worlds are indistinguishable from real ones? That has some pretty significant ethical and social consequences--most simulations could be better than our real worlds. Alistair for Hugh). Hugh for Mitch).

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5 Social Marketing Stories You Need To Read

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80+% of Twitter Accounts Inactive, But Core Users More Committed By Dirk Singer Though Twitter won’t be heading into obscurity like the virtual world (this New York Times article gives some good reasons why), it’s still the case that Twitter’s actual user base is small compared to the number of registrations as some new stats from RJMetrics show.

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Twitter and Guinea Pig Worry

Waxing UnLyrical

If they feel badly about abandoning Twitter, you may ease their conscience by letting them know that Tweetdeck was just purchased by Twitter for a metric buttload of money. Image: WOAW – the world of animal welfare via Flickr, CC 2.0. Use Tweetdeck and join the fun.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Keep Score Social media metrics are widely available, but require effort and integration to be gathered and analyzed successfully. Allowing clients to treat number of Facebook fans as the core success metric is a dereliction of duty. As a relative newbie to the “virtual&# world, our business model is being very successful.

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Best Social Media and Digital Marketing Research and Statistics of 2011, Part 2

Webbiquity SMM

Website traffic is the most commonly measured social media metric, followed by conversions, positive mentions and number of fans/followers. Meanwhile, dating websites and virtual worlds (e.g. So you can expect, on average, an extra 24 minutes of attention if you post on facebook than if you post on twitter.”

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Is Social Media Too Big For Its Britches?

Convince & Convert

Twitter is walking into a huge room full of different people meeting together just to get to know each other, socialize, have a few virtual drinks, and relax. Twitter is walking into a huge room full of different people meeting together just to get to know each other, socialize, have a few virtual drinks, and relax. link] jaybaer Wow.

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The Ultimate Social Media Etiquette Handbook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Then, you use that number as a success metric for influence. Don’t do in the virtual world what you would not do in the real world. Before entering social media world people must know the etiquette. Twitter Following a user and then unfollowing them before they have a chance to follow back.

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