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Growing Privacy Concerns Put Social Networks’ Targeting at Risk

Ignite Social Media

Currently, most social networks use web browser information to power a pixel or tag (Facebook Pixel, Twitter Tag, Pinterest Tag, LinkedIn Insight Tag ), which is a snippet of code that is placed on a brand’s site. Without cookie data, social networks lose access to valuable information.

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Five Upcoming Social Networks To Look Out For In 2021

Ignite Social Media

Social media marketers constantly try to balance the proven practices on established social networks with strategic bets on the up and comers. When I started Ignite Social Media in 2007, the battle between MySpace and Facebook still raged and Friendster was hanging on for dear life.

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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. Glad to see these priorities. — SS .

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Embarrassing updates in social media

Sherrilynne Starkie

No information is posted that hasn’t been published by the social media users themselves. When you consider that social networks started gaining popularity more than five years ago, it’s surprising that so many people still don’t understand how to or fail to use the privacy settings.

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Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

Mindjumpers

During the last couple of years, Facebook’s default privacy settings have become more and more permissive – and often with great confusion to the users. I have found this chart that illustrates Facebook’s evolution of privacy from the early days in 2005 up until recently.

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GDPR and social media: What marketers need to know

Sprout Social

Is there a link between GDPR and social media? ” Chances are you’ve heard of GDPR or perhaps recall EU companies scrambling to become compliant with data and privacy regulations in May 2018. How does GDPR affect marketing on social media? Restrictions on social media ads and remarketing.

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Top Five: What’s your (Instagram) story?

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s top 5 social media news for marketing and communications professionals! People want to know about Facebook’s efforts to stop the spread of misinformation, prevent election interference, and protect people’s privacy. Get our weekly Top Five delivered directly to your inbox with my free weekly newsletter.

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