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14 types of social media every marketer should know

Sprout Social

Examples: YouTube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch and UStream. Examples: Instagram Stories, Snapchat, TikTok, Tumblr and Weibo. While microblogging was once dominated by Twitter, platforms like LinkedIn and Tumblr have also become popular microblogging sites. Examples: Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest and LinkedIn.

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10 Social Media Tools To Help With Your Crowdsourcing Efforts

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Ustream and YouTube Video blogging is becoming increasingly popular, especially now that smartphones have better video cameras, and there are apps to upload them to video services, such as Ustream and YouTube. Ustream gives you a way to host a live show and have your Twitter followers chat with you while you are on the show.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Using Digg as an instrument to get Digg’s attention has never clearly had an impact until last week’s “revolt,&# and the only reason why it had an impact then was because it was done off Digg’s site (in this case, Ustream ) and had plenty of press people standing behind it.

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Facebook Live Will Dominate Video Streaming

The Social Media Hat

Livestream and Ustream have been around for years, and Google+ Hangouts On Air were an incredible innovation. Tumblr and YouTube integrated live streaming options, and even Microsoft may be getting into the game now that they've purchased LinkedIn and could marry it with their previous acquisition, Skype. How Did We Get Here?

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Twitter is the new chat room, but IRC still remains a popular choice behind services like Ustream and Y! (It was faster for me, anyway.) Old technologies aren’t dying down; they’re just expanding. Email is still email (but doesn’t cost $0.25 Accelerated by MaxCDN Content Delivery Network.

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