Social media News
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Small business owners are increasingly leveraging social media as a promotion and sales tool. A recent LinkedIn study showed that 81 percent of small to mid-sized businesses are using social media, but how many are using it effectively?
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Modern-day celebrities are subject to voicemail hacking, leaked photography of a personal nature and the persistent presence of paparazzi. Who is responsible for this invasion of privacy? Is the power of social media to blame?
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Twitter is a powerful social media platform, with more than 284 million monthly active users, and more than 500 million tweets sent every day.
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Some computer gurus tell us that social media participation is declining from “participation plateau,” caused by too many demands on time, yet as some sites see numbers reduced, there is more to social media activity than what those numbers show.
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Snapchat released a new update Tuesday which included the new Discover feature, which allows content creators to share information through stories on the Snapchat platform.
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A new study from Washington DC-based think-tank Pew Research Center has concluded that social media use in not associated with higher levels of stress.
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A recent study from Stanford University and the University of Cambridge has found that a computer with data from a person's Facebook “likes” was better able to predict that individual's personality than most of their friends and family.
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2015 will be an interesting year for politics. Whether you love it or hate it, social media is completely changing the landscape of voter participation, one Facebook post at a time.
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Have you ever tried to track down an old Facebook conversation, only to send up lost in your own timeline? What if you could find it by simply typing in a few keywords from the relevant status updates?
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Scientists at two universities have determined that social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are not representative of society in general and should not be used for studies.
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An exhaustive, multi-year study of malware and phishing scams present on Facebook reveals that users often have a hard time distinguishing between real Facebook links and harmful viruses.
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Bangkok -
Thailand’s military junta head Prayuth Chan-ocha has asked the national media to “stop reporting" about former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
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Madrid -
Spain's National Police have been beefing up their social media presence recently. Having already gained a huge following on Twitter, they are now a great hit on Instagram, after posting a photo of a muscular and very attractive anti-riot police officer.
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While social media is undoubtedly most popular with younger generations, Facebook also has an older presence — but some are actually too old for the website to handle.
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As Ello enters the social media world with enough vigor to challenge Facebook for its users, what might happen to the slumbering social giant, Google+?
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Twitter is giving every tweet on its network to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, as well as a $10 million investment, to create a hub to better learn how to understand and use social networks.
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In the past few days, you might have noticed your Facebook community pushing you to join Ello, a new social network best known for being ad-free. But what else should you know about this hot new startup?
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A new social-networking app seeking funding on Indiegogo right now aims to hand total control over security and privacy to its users, creating a much safer site than the heavyweights like Facebook and Twitter. Here we take a quick look at their campaign.
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In life's final days, my childhood friend used Facebook to share the last moments she spent with her grandmother. Increasingly, we see Facebook being used as a memorial tribute for loved ones who pass.
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As Samsung, Apple and Co. are all launching their own takes on the SmartWatches, MOTA, a US company based in the Silicon Valley with its award-winning design team, has designed the next step in the high-tech consumer electronics: the SmartRing!
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In an effort to show how much we manipulate situations on the social media, Zilla van den Born from Amsterdam pretended to take a five-week trip away in southeast Asia, all the while keeping her friends on Facebook updated with photos of her great trip.
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Sydney -
The robots are coming, but not the way you’d expect. They’re about to replace the suits, and perhaps even declutter your home. Spooky? Much more than that. There’s a “vision of excellence," and you know what that means — chaos.
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This innocent photograph of eight kindergarten children in Paris, posted on the Facebook page of the French Ministry of Education last Monday, has since received a storm of insults and racist comments, because of the children’s skin colour.
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A new report argues that algorithms that map social media posts and mobile phone data can help researchers track epidemics.
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It's a question as old as the Internet itself: How do website owners make money from a traditionally free medium? As sites like the Washington Post erect "paywalls" to force readers to subscribe, it is time to re-examine the controversial practice.
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San Francisco -
Even the founder of the citizen journalist site “Allvoices” appears to want to forget what had seemed, at least for awhile, as a noble attempt to empower the analog world.
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Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act, so said George Orwell, author of "1984."
Computers and the Internet have not only made the most significant advances in our lives possible, it has also been an unwitting betrayer.
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Los Angeles -
When Facebook went down last Friday a few people considered it an emergency and called 911. Police officials used other social media tools to tell people they did not know when Facebook will be back up.
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The majority of Americans have little or no trust that social media sites will respect and protect their online privacy.
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A new and disturbing trend has popped up which a few journalists have followed; terrorists using social media to their advantage. Twitter is their favorite platform at the moment.
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Screenshot of Facebook's Graph Search in action Courtesy Facebook
Hosts Persia Tatar of the Social Media Society and Dan Wittmers of the Mobile Leaders Alliance welcome attendees and speakers to the Emerging Media Convergence conference September 12 in New York.
A portion of the Squeeze dashboard showing social media channel data
Social Media apps on iPhone Jason A. Howie
Google Buzz on display on a smartphone YouTube screenshot from Google
BrandYourself founders. Natalie Brasington
"Museum Quality: Collecting and Archiving Across Multiple Platforms" panel (L-R):
Amy Vernon, Frederic Montagnon, Matthew Roche, Steven Rosenbaum, Oliver Starr, Duncan Alney
An illustration picture shows the Twitter logo reflected in the eye of a woman in Berlin With permission by Reuters/Photo by Fabrizio Bensch
An example of the new Timeline profile on Facebook Facebook
Brianna Vance records a tearful plea on Facebook which ultimately saved her father's life. ABC News
Writing a tweet on Twitter MDGovpics
Social media word bubble Sofiaperesoa
Infographic: Facebook and Windows Live Profile Dominate Social Media in Latin America - iCrossing by iCrossing
Facebook and Google logos FindYourSearch
Is being virtually connected causing our children to disconnect from the real world and human interaction?
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