Category: Twitter
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FIFA Cracking Down on Twitter Users
FIFA has sent takedown notices to Twitter in relation to Twitter users “abusing” the FIFA trademarks. More details here Related articles FIFA has cracked down on that World Cup Twitter bot (and other people tweeting and Vining and GIFing goals) (niemanlab.org) Twitter removes copyright infringing avatars of FIFA World Cup fans (neowin.net) FIFA Targets Twitter…
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Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations
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…
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Attention Seekers On Twitter
Gary 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: https://www.slideshare.net/vaynerchuk/being-human-ontwitterslidesharev3 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…
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Ryanair Finally Joins Twitter
Economy carrier Ryanair has finally joined twitter Their first tweet was sent nearly two weeks ago and shares the “tongue in cheek” style you’d expect from the brand: #Ryanair has joined Twitter! Follow our official account for the latest Ryanair news & special offers. PS There's no charge for following us — Ryanair (@Ryanair) September…
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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: So if you’re a European Twitter user you shouldn’t…
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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…
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Social Media Revealed
A lot of the companies flogging social media services to businesses probably shouldn’t be in the business at all. A lot of the “advice” they’re giving companies is terrible and yet they charge their clients “top dollar” for it. (Not all of the companies operating in the space are “evil”, but a lot are) The…
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Twitter Blocks Tumblr
Twitter’s API changes announced last week upset quite a few people. But what about its relations with other social networks and services? The Guardian reports that Twitter has blocked Tumblr’s access to its users ie. you won’t be able to search for your Twitter contacts on Tumblr anymore. As the various social networks buy up…
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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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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…