Author: Michele Neylon
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IIA Net Visionary Awards Revamps Social Media Category
This year’s Irish Internet Association Net Visionary Awards features a social media category, as it has done for the last few years. However this year is slightly different. Instead of simply having a “best us of” type award they’ve renamed the category to: Most Creative Use of Social Media for compelling customer engagement And they…
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Twitter Goes Offline
Twitter has been offline for the last 30 minutes. It’s not even showing the (in)famous “fail whale” at the moment! So you can expect to see a surge of traffic to Facebook and Google+ 🙂
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Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?
Last weekend the news broke that Facebook was acquiring Instagram for $1 billion. Needless to say the tech news circles were buzzing with this announcement all week. According to an article on TheNextWeb Twitter had also tried to acquire them, but failed. And others suggest that Google may have been trying to acquire them ..…
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Twitter Sells Tweets
With most social networks the users are the product. In the case of Twitter one of the problems the company has been struggling with is how to actually make money from it all .. So selling their content ie. their users’ tweets appears to be one of the solutions. According to an article on RWW…