Category: SocialMedia
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CoTweet Standard Being Pulled
CoTweet Standard, which is used by a lot of companies to manage Twitter for teams, is being withdrawn on February 15th From then on CoTweet will only be offered as a paid service under a new name “SocialEngage” There aren’t much details about SocialEngage on the CoTweet / Exact Target site unfortunately, nor is there…
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Gathering Social Media Metrics With TwitSprout
TwitSprout recently launched their beta, or at least let me access it, and while the name suggests that it’s a Twitter related service it also works with Facebook. What does it do? The basic plan, which is free, gathers a number of metrics related to your social media activities into an easy to use and…
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Gowalla To Go The Way Of The Dodo
Gowalla is to be shutdown. After being acquired by Facebook the “also ran” to FourSquare will be shutting down early in 2012, according to Techcrunch. So while Facebook may have acquired the skills and experience of the FourSquare team, they’re not taking over all the data. So will Facebook use some of the technology to…
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Facebook Acquires Gowalla
Facebook has acquired Gowalla according to reports. Gowalla, which offers very similar functionality to FourSquare, never quite seemed to be as popular as its rival. Facebook had been offering a location based service for its mobile users, but they were reportedly going to be phasing it out, but with the addition of Gowalla that will…
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Guinness Try To Force Age Restrictions On Twitter
Guinness Ireland’s Twitter account is a bit odd. They want to restrict their followers to people over the age of 18! Of course I’m not “following” their account, but I can still see all their content! And here’s the screenshot to prove it: I think the word I’m looking for is “fail” They’ve posted a…
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Google+ Gets Games
It was only a matter of time before Google+ would start expanding its offering to users. The first addition being rolled out to users is games, which are accessible via the subtle new button in the interface: So what’s on offer? On my own account I’m seeing a range of 16 games including a couple…