Make Twitter Great Again With This Donald Trump Chrome Plugin

The US President Donald Trump has a tendency to issue quite contentious statements via Twitter. Some of those statements might appear to be a little lacking in gravitas. This plugin for Chrome will give them the gravitas they deserve by converting them all to Comic Sans.

You can see it “in action” on one of President Trump’s recent tweets in the screenshot below:

Want it? You can grab it here.

Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations

socialmedia-awards-2014 The Irish Social Media Awards are being held in June in Dublin and nominations opened today.

As with other years nominations are 100% free.

This year’s categories are:

Facebook categories:

Facebook Page for a Business (Non Campaign)
Facebook Page for a Non-Profit/Organisation
Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed)
Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App, Ads

Twitter categories

Best Business Twitter account – marketing, sales
Best Business Twitter account – support, CRM
Best Business Twitter Campaign

Mobile categories

Best Mobile App (Marketing)
Best Mobile App (Events)
Best Mobile Campaign Using Social Media

SME Categories

Best Use of Social Media by an SME (new)
Best Blog of an SME

Other Categories

Best Experimental Format (Vine, Instagram, Snapchat)
Best Social Media Only Campaign (not linked to any other media)
Most Innovative Use of Social Media
Best Use of Social Media by State Body
Customer Care using Social Media (Integrated)
Best Video/Video Campaign (non broadcast)
Best Online PR Campaign
Best Use of Social Media for a Sponsorship Campaign
Social Media Effectiveness – conversions, metrics etc
Best Integrated Social Media Campaign

Full details on the event site.

Attention Seekers On Twitter

The original VayniacGary Vaynerchuk posted this deck yesterday.

It’s well worth reviewing and sharing, as it highlights one of the worst things that people and businesses do on Twitter:

I’ve seen a LOT of businesses abusing Twitter this way. Sure, if someone pays you or your business a compliment you might want to share it. But if the bulk of your tweets and retweets are just this kind of junk then it’s really quite pathetic

Twitter To Target Users Based On Browsing Activity

Twitter is experimenting with new advertising techniques and formats.

In a recent announcement the company announced their plans to start targetting their US users based on their web browsing activity.

The new “service” is aimed at US based Twitter users so Europeans should not be impacted:

Twitter "personalisation" setting options

So if you’re a European Twitter user you shouldn’t have to do anything..

But if you are in the US it’s quite easy to disable this new form of targetting.

  1. Login to your Twitter account via the web interface.
  2. Go to your account settings
  3. Uncheck the box labelled “Tailor Twitter based on my recent website visits”
  4. Click on the “Save changes” button at the bottom of the page

 

Social Network Wars Explained

Social media networks want more users. Of course if you’re trying to grow your social network then it makes sense that you use your users’ existing connections .. So a lot of social networks tap into the data available via Twitter, Facebook and other services.

Of course by doing this they can upset each other .. end result you see social networks blocking access to each other. Sometimes it’s pretty petty, but it’s still fascinating to watch.

The guys over at Hootsuite used a Game of Thrones style analogy to visually represent what’s been going on:

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Pinterest Engagement Graphic

Pinterest has made changes to their systems in the last couple of months that make it easier for brands and businesses to use the social network.

But what’s actually going on?

This graphic from Curalate gives some interesting insights:

pinterest-infographic

Do you use Pinterest? Why? Do you like it? Hate it? Let us know in the comments!

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