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January 23rd, 2012 by Ann Smarty
You love Twitter, but are you taking advantage of all the tools out there that can enhance your tweeting experience?
Here’s a look at the five tools we use to enhance the Twitter experience.
TwitterFox
Firefox users will love TwitterFox, a plugin that lets you see tweets in a popup menu from your web browser. TwitterFox prevents you from always…
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January 19th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
The Presidential election of 2008 has been dubbed by some as being “the Facebook election” – and as more and more political candidates pick up fans on Facebook and followers on Twitter, campaign consultants are predicting that social media will drastically change the way elections are determined – from the presidential race to local elections. In fact, it has been…
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January 11th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
When you are trying to promote your business such as dental practice through the World Wide Web, you will definitely want to make use of Twitter. This social networking website’s microblogging platform allows dentists to communicate easily with their patients. Because of how convenient Twitter is, many businesses have integrated this platform into their own websites.
However, using Twitter alone…
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January 5th, 2012 by SEM Contributor
It would seem that Twitter, Facebook and Google+ are copying features from each other that it is getting to be difficult to differentiate one social network from the other.
For instance, Google has made sure that its user profiles look and feel like it is similar to Facebook, only simplified down to the basics. Facebook, on the other hand, has…
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December 29th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
There’s no denying that Twitter is getting bigger and better every year. 2011 has been no different, and has been a landmark year, seeing the site reach the 250 million members mark. Although this is a long way from challenging the Social Networking giant Facebook, it’s still pretty damn impressive.
The great thing about Twitter is that is leads the…
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December 21st, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Twitter has been gaining a lot of headway lately and with the new user interface you can be sure to see an increase in usage. You are going to want to get a hold of some followers along the way to build your social network. It isn’t always easy to gain followers and some people do not know who to…
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December 20th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Tweens
There is a particular age when children may not be little kids anymore but are not yet considered teenagers. This in-between age group is known as tweens. Tweens can also be called a tweenager. More specifically a tween is a child between the ages of eight and 12. A tweenager is a more specific age group consisting of 10…
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December 14th, 2011 by Damian Davila
Founded by Nick Halstead back in 2008 in the U.K., Datasift is (as of the time this article was written) only one of the 2 companies in the world that Twitter has allowed to re-syndicate its content.
Nick is well known in social media circles because he founded TweetMeme, a leading platform in providing social news via Twitter available in…
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December 14th, 2011 by SEM Contributor
With the advent of social media it seems that actors have a whole new way to ruin their public images. The problem with these publicity outlets is that it’s all too easy to say something off-the-cuff and have no way to take it back.
Ashton Kutcher and the Penn State Scandal
When Ashton Kutcher heard that Penn State Coach Jo…
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November 22nd, 2011 by SEM Contributor
Note: see our other articles from social media history series: Before Social Media – The History of Social Media Series, The Rise of Media Sharing – History of Social Media, The Advancement of Social Media, The History of Facebook, and the History of the Internet
Twitter has grown into one of the most popular and busy social media sites on…
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