We Are Social People

Instagram is no longer allowing Twitter users to view its photographs in tweets in an effort to drive more people away from the rival social media company to its own website. Kevin Systrom, the CEO of the photo-sharing service that was snapped up by Facebook earlier this year, announced today that Instagram has turned off [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Twitter told developers they would be tightening their Display Guidelines to help facilitate a “consistent user experience.”  Yesterday, Twitter announced it is in the process of upgrading its API, and enforcing a type of “certification” for certain applications. Today’s Twitter ecosystem According to the Twitter post to developers, @sippey (Michael [...]

Twitter Data Can Tell You Up To 8 Days In Advance Adam Sadilek at the University of Rochester and his team analyzed 4.4 million GPS-tagged Tweets from over 600,000 users in New York City over the course of one month in 2010. Using their artificial intelligence algorithm to ignore tweets by healthy people such as [...]

Twitter recently sent out an email to 3rd party developers in the hopes of designing a more unified Twitter experience. According to dev.twitter.com: “Users must have a consistent experience wherever they interact with Tweets, whether on Twitter.com, a mobile client, website, or in an application developed with the Twitter API. To ensure consistency across the [...]

When I was scrolling through my Facebook newsfeed the other day I noticed that my friend Rosie liked Target.  I opened it up again today, and see that it’s still at the top of my newsfeed. Then I saw it, small, not very noticeable: sponsored. At first I felt cheated. I look to my newsfeed [...]

With more than 465 million accounts and 175 million tweets every single day, Twitter plays a pivotal role in the thousands of different social media marketing strategies run by companies worldwide. But why is using Twitter for business such an effective online marketing tool and what’s so special about Twitter in particular? There are all [...]

Guest post contributed by Marissa, on behalf of Brandwatch.com – Brandwatch ia a social media monitoring site that allows brands and agencies to use their social media monitoring software and services to capture and analyse social media conversations. Twitter or Facebook? As the owner of a small or medium-sized business, it is your job to [...]

With so many blogs out there writing about social media, how do you sort though them all to get to the best ones?  We have done that for you!  Here are ten of the best social media blogs!  These blogs cover a variety of social media topics from Facebook to Pinterest. Social Media Today We [...]

Ever worry what people think of your brand? Or the general mood of your neighbours and district? What if there was a way to find out? Well, it’s on our doorstep! http://mediapatterns.enm.bris.ac.uk/mood/ Some pretty fancy-pantsy scientists at the University of Bristol have come up with a nifty way of keeping track of peoples emotions. Actually [...]

Update: MarketMeSuite has done a very small innovation using Pinterest, even without an API. Read more here… Although the API for rapidly growing social network “Pinterest” is done and ready for developers, it has not been released to the public yet. Why Stay Closed? According to Business Insider, Pinterest fears having a “Twitter problem.” An API, or [...]