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Here We Go Again: The Gray Market in Twitter and Facebook
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So, casually reading through this Fast Company story about sexy femle Twitter bots, I come across this astounding, unsubstantiated claim: My goal was to draw a straight line from a Twitter bot to the real, live person whose face the bot had stolen. In the daily bot wars–the one Twitter...
Twitter's favorite spambot, @Horse_ebooks, hits 100k followers
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If you're a Twitter user, you've likely come in contact with the spam account @Horse_ebooks at least once or twice, probably when someone you follow discovers him and loses all self control, retweeting every one of his many gems. If, however, you're unfamiliar with the Twittering world's most beloved...
Dear Klout, This Is How You Measure Influence
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“Up until now, we’ve thought a lot about influence in terms of how big someone’s microphone is,” NYU Professor of Business Sinan Aral, tells TechCrunch, “A more important question is, how much does someone’s influence, or their messages, or the things they have to say to us, change our behavior?”...
Location App Highlight Gets Clever Update That Features… Highlights
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There are a few use cases for using hot background location app Highlight, cofounder Paul Davison explains to me. You just met someone and you want them to find out more about you. You want to note that someone is particularly interesting for future reference. And, you want to see...
Twitter acknowledges 'unfollowing' bug, is working on fix
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Twitter often has occasional bouts of flakiness, with accounts occasionally dropping followers at random, but the company has finally acknowledged this bug and claims it is working on a fix. TechCrunch reached out to Twitter, who responded by saying "This is a bug, and our team is working to...
Do You Want 500,000 Twitter Followers? This Game Will Make It Happen
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Do you want 500,000 followers on Twitter? How about 1 million? What about 22 million? Adam Ludwin, an associate at RRE Ventures, along with some developers built a side project called "Fame" to make that happen. Fame is a viral Twitter game that's supposed to give a random user...
SEC: Companies can share business data on social media
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When Netflix CEO Reed Hastings took to Facebook last year to announce that the service had exceeded one billion viewing hours in a month for the first time, the financial world was in uproar. After all, there are rules and regulations concerning when sensitive data about a company's successes...
Exclusive: Buffer partners with "#1 Twitter client" TweetCaster to make you more popular
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Social engagement tool Buffer will be announcing an integration with top Twitter web and mobile client TweetCaster tonight. If you haven’t heard of the tool, Buffer saves your tweets, posts, and shares in order to automatically publish them at times that maximize retweets, likes, and comments. That allows social media users to...
As Instagram hits 80 million users, Twitter cuts off their "find friends" API access
9to5mac.com
Instagram announced earlier today that the popular Facebook-owned photo sharing service had reached a whopping 80 million users who had shared a total of over four billion photos. These are impressive statistics, but it seems those 80 million users will have a more difficult time finding their Twitter friends’ Instagram...
Facebook Admits Likes Are Down For Some Celebrities' Posts, But Claims Up 34% For Most
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Facebook today confirmed dwindling engagement with public posts to subscribers cited by The New York Times’ Nick Bilton, other journalists, and I, but calls us isolated cases, noting public figures with more than 10,000 fans are now getting 34% more Likes and comments than a year ago. While Facebook often...
Twitter will honor Do Not Track in all supported browsers including IE9, Safari 5.1 and Firefox
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Earlier today, Twitter announced that it would be supporting Mozilla Firefox’s Do Not Track mode in an effort to honor users privacy. Now, it has posted a new help document that clarifies its position: it supports DNT in all browsers that feature the mode. This is important in light of the...
"Like" Shortcuts? These Will Cost You Money And More
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Buying follower views and likes on social networks is a bad idea. Everyone knows that. But how, exactly, does it harm a business? Let us count the nasty ways. Prices vary, but we've seen a rough average of $25 for 1,000 likes on Facebook. The more likes, the more global...
Science launches HelloInsights to identify and optimize influence on Pinterest
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As companies increasingly turn to Pinterest as a digital marketing channel, there’s a tremendous need to quantify and optimize its use. After ten months of development and behind the scenes deployment, HelloInsights launches publicly today out of Santa Monica’s Science, Inc. technology studio to measure effectiveness and influence on...
Prismatic Gets $15M From Jim Breyer And Yuri Milner To Attack The Really Hard Problem Of Bringing You Relevant News
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News aggregation is a glory-less pursuit, where even the companies that do succeed have to grapple with the fact that no algorithm is ever going to be as good as the human brain at judging what news/content will appeal to said brain. It’s an AI-hard problem. So when Prismatic founder Bradford Cross...
Prismatic Gets $15M From Jim Breyer And Yuri Milner To Attack The Really Hard Problem Of Bringing You Relevant News
Here's What LinkedIn's Newly Redesigned Company Pages Look Like
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LinkedIn is changing the design of its company pages so that they're more visually appealing. We've got a screengrab of the new beta launch, below. LinkedIn clients Philips, Citi, Dell, and HP are among a handful of companies the career networking site chose to test-drive the new pages. The early...
National Geographic is documenting one team’s ascent of Mount Everest using Instagram
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National Geographic was Instagram’s very first big brand partner and so it seems quite fitting that the media giant is using the photo sharing app for the very first time to let viewers in on an Everest expedition. With a National Geographic expedition team expected to reach the summit tomorrow...
Twitter Launches Reporting And Promoted Tweets Self-Service Features
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Twitter is moving the bus forward on monetizing itself and allowing brands to handle all of their advertising on the site. Today, the company announced two new self-service features that companies have been asking for. Here’s what the team had to say: In March, we announced our self-service advertising solution, giving small...
Shatner takes his millionth Twitter follower to dinner
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Troy Pound sounds like someone who might have made a brief appearance in "Star Trek." However, he and his wife were treated to dinner by Kirk himself for being the 1 millionth follower. [Read more]...
Twitter Launches Its Own Political Barometer To Track U.S. Presidential Elections
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Twitter just announced the launch of its Twitter Political Index. This index, says Twitter, is “a daily measurement of Twitter users’ feelings towards the candidates as expressed in nearly two million Tweets each week.” Every day, twitter will evaluate and weigh the sentiment of tweets mentioning both Barack Obama and...
AP Twitter feed returns, minus many followers, after being hacked
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The Associated Press account is back up and tweeting after being offline for almost a whole day and having to reset its follower count. [Read more]...
Software: Java Judge Ends Search For Alleged Google Sock Puppets
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Photo: Flickr/Peter Merholz The search for America’s next top sockpuppet is over. On Tuesday, the judge in Oracle and Google’s widely watched Java lawsuit said that he wasn’t going to ask Google or Oracle for any more information on journalists or expert commentors that they might be paying on...
Lady Gaga To Be The First Person To Hit 30M Followers On Twitter (Not That @Ev-eryone Cares)
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As the world of technology gets more and more mainstream, and some of us ponder how the story of startups and tech is namely one of scale and fast growth, the folks at Twitter Counter have been in touch to alert us to yet another milestone: Twitter’s very close to...
Report: Twitter to launch iOS music discovery app that offers recommendations based on who you follow
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According to a report from CNET, Twitter might be preparing to launch a new standalone iOS music app as early as the end of this month. The report cites “a person familiar with the matter” and claimed Twitter would use technology it acquired through its purchase of music discovery service...
Report: Twitter to launch iOS music discovery app that offers recommendations based on who you follow
A Look At The Dark Side Of Twitter Popularity: The Paid Follower Economy
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The sad reality of Twitter is that the majority of users believe that a user’s number of Twitter followers is a metric of affluence. Of course, this perception as opened up a market of purchasing popularity, or buying Twitter followers. Presidential candidates, national journalists and TV... Please visit Marketing Land for the full article....
Brandbuddee raises cash to reward consumers for sharing stories
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A number of startups are building their businesses around the concept of rewarding consumers for their comments about companies on social media, but Brandbuddee says it’s taking a different approach to the issue. “Our company is about sharing any type of story from a brand,” says co-founder Andy Karuza. “We’re also...
Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns Now Let Advertisers Highlight Their Google+ Follower Count, Get Improved In-App Targeting
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Google+ is finding its way into every Google product and AdWords is no exception. Starting today, AdWords advertisers can easily highlight their Google+ follower counts in their enhanced campaigns. On average, Google says, ads with these follower counts have “a 5-10% higher click-through rate” than regular ads. The company, is...
Google AdWords Enhanced Campaigns Now Let Advertisers Highlight Their Google+ Follower Count, Get Improved In-App Targeting
Oops: Google backtracks and revokes some Glass Explorer invitations due to non-compliance
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Google has announced that some of the invitations it sent out for its Glass Explorer test group will be revoked because not all accepted applicants meet the terms of the contest. The company put out a call for applications in February, allowing Google+ and Twitter users to express interest in...
FACEBOOK: Please Don't Start Using Twitter's Annoying Hashtags
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Facebook is considering adopting hashtags, those keywords preceded by a hash or pound mark--"#"--that are sometimes used on Twitter, the Wall Street Journal reports. Let's just say this: That's a horrible idea. Chris Messina, an open-source advocate who now works at Google, first proposed using hashtags in 2007. At the...
Rdio launches 'Protected Accounts,' letting you Limp Bizkit it up in peace
thenextweb.com
Listen up Rdio users, do you have terrible tastes in music? Do your friends laugh at your preference for Fear Factory over Dream Theater? Or, have you simply missed the entire social transition over the past few years to being utterly transparent about every element of your life? If so,...
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