Twitter is one of the most powerful micro blogging and social media site, which is having a large number of users as of present. Twitter is being used for a large number of purposes and is one of the most easy to use social media site. Twitter has finally decided to take off its old version and to migrate completely to the new one. The old version of Twitter would be killed off this week, which has been revealed in an official tweet. All the users using the old version of Twitter would be migrated automatically to the newer version.
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How Law Officials are Utilizing Social Media
The current technology driven world has forced local law enforcement agencies to turn more into social media tools to keep the public informed and even solve various crimes. County Sheriff’s Office in Washington has been using and utilizing a Facebook page for about a year which has around 1,000 followers. The major job of the page includes up-to-date information about crime, information about wanted suspects and significant arrests. The County Sheriff’s office posts alerts about robberies, suspects, flooding, drugg arrests and all type of crime activities that is happening around. Photos of the most wanted criminals and suspects are also posted on the Facebook page, so that the public would be kept more aware about the crime activities in their localities.
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IZEA Acquires Magpie
IZEA, the leaders in sponsored conversations has acquired German based Twitter advertising network Magpie. IZEA have built various platforms that is aimed at connecting brands and advertisers on various social media networks. The 3 year old Magpie ( be-a-magpie.com ), is one of the first company of its kind that offered in-stream ads on Twitter. Both advertisers and publishers have benefited from Magpie in these years.
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How Social Media Marketing Benefits Your SEO Campaign
Social Media Marketing is one of the hottest thing in the area of online marketing and is also considered as one of the best viral marketing strategy that exist on the internet. Social Media Marketing have always complemented the traditional SEO activities and if you are really serious about your online marketing campaigns, then both of them should go hand in hand. Most of the internet marketing professionals make the serious mistake of excluding social media marketing from their SEO activities. Some online marketing guys also interpret social media marketing and social media optimization as the same, but the fact is that both are entirely different.
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It is not the about the Twitter Follower Quantity, but Quality
Twitter is one of the most popular micro blogging and social media platform which is being used by a large number of users. This is one of the most amazing social media platform to share your ideas to a large number of fellow Twitter users. Different people use Twitter for different purpose such as business, information sharing, chit chat etc. [Read more…]
Propeller.com to Stop it activities from October
Propeller.com, another small social bookmarking and news aggregating site is set to stop it activities from October 2010 onwards. Propeller.com is owned by AOL- Netscape and works very much similar to the way the old Digg did. Users can share stories / news, vote for other stories and also comment on stories. Based on the number of votes the stories would be displayed on the front page.
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Finally My Mixx Account Got Reinstated!!
I was an active member on Mixx for the last few years and I used it to submit interesting topics that I find on the net. I also used to submit my personal blog post and I used to get some traffic from the submitted stories. As compared with Digg, the traffic from Mixx is minimal, but has a much decent bounce rate when compared with Digg.
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10 Essential Characteristics of a Successful Social Media Professional
A Social Media Professional or consultant is usually entrusted with the strong reponsibility of enhancing the online presence of a website through various social media channels. Social Media Marketing is an interesting job once you have hit the right track and are in full flow. Social Media Marketing has also become one of the best career opportunities for those interested in online marketing and actually there is a shortage of quality social media consultants world wide.
To be a successful social media professional, there are many things that you need to work on. Here I would like to provide 10 points that I think is essential for anyone aspiring to become a successful social media marketing professional.
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My Tweets Have Disappeared…What is going on with Twitter?
Twitter was down for a some hours few days back and this is considered one of the longest outage time for Twitter. I am not sure why this is happening with Twitter on a regular frequency. Just few minutes before writing this post Twitter was down and created discomfort for regular Tweeters.
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Is This Another Set-back for Twitter Monetization?
In another shocking announcement, Twitter has revealed its plan to ban the third party paid Tweets via its API. This would be a huge setback for companies such as Ad.ly, SponsoredTweets, Mylikes etc, which has been a strong force among the companies offering sponsored Tweets.
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