Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Facebookâs Like button evolves into Reactions [http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-facebook-reactions-chris-cox/] The Like button is about to get a whole lot more nuanced, with a new range of emotions available to react to posts. The change is rolling out in the coming weeks. But how to implement it
audioboo
When Audioboo became Audioboom, it dropped the social content creator [http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/413205%2Caudioboom-the-internet-radio-company-doing-something-different.aspx] The shift from Audioboo to Audioboom was more than a name change â it was an abandonment of the original users: > âThe issue was probably quite fundamental,â Proctor says when asked
Social Media
The Twitter weâve lost [https://www.imperica.com/en/viewpoint/twitters-pantomime-jon-bounds] > This era, is sadly over. Could the now deputy leader of the Labour Party play Barron Tweetup today? The swashbuckling, experimental era of any new medium is not destined to last. But that doesnât mean we
Social Media
The end of Twitter share counts is hitting sharing [https://blog.shareaholic.com/sharing-to-twitter-declines-11-after-twitter-kills-share-counts/] > Sharing activity to Twitter has declined by 11.28% since November 20th. The âsocial proofâ theory of the impact of sharing buttons proved by its withdrawalâŚ
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ISIS
Inside the Islamic State propaganda machine [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-the-islamic-states-propaganda-machine/2015/11/20/051e997a-8ce6-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html] : > Senior media operatives are treated as âemirsâ of equal rank to their military counterparts. They are directly involved in decisions on strategy and territory. They preside over hundreds of videographers,
Mark Little
Smart move by Twitter [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/10/twitter-hires-storyful-founder-for-senior-international-role] : > Mark Little, the founder of News Corp owned social news agency Storyful, has been hired as a senior executive across Twitterâs international operation. Few people have been as successful in recognising the potential of combining
algorithms
As anyone who has been trained by me of late will know, Facebook is the 1000lb gorilla in the traffic generation game right now. Itâs been steadily rising as a percentage of traffic referrals to publisher sites, and it by far blows away all other forms of social media.
culture change
How Twitter went bad [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/conversation-smoosh-twitter-decay/412867/] : > In other words, on Twitter, people say things that they think of as ephemeral and chatty. Their utterances are then treated as unequivocal political statements by people outside the conversation. Because thereâs a kind
culture change
Emily Bell on the consequences of replacing Twitterâs stars [http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/nov/08/twitter-heart-wrong-beat] â âfavouritesâ â with hearts â âlikesâ: > I found myself not bookmarking, as I would have done a day earlier, a horrifying image retweeted by journalists depicting men using phones to film a
guido fawkes
Slightly baffling post on Guido today [http://order-order.com/2015/10/22/telegraph-hacks-fury-at-buzzfeed-isation-of-content/] : > The Telegraph has suffered an exodus of seasoned reporters yet there is good news on the horizon: the paper is hiring no fewer than five new âsocial media and search engine optimisationâ staff. They will be
Journalism
Some fascinating reporting on Russia's misinformation operations, and how they aim to influence electionsâŚ