What Is ‘T.I.L.’?
Original post by Dave Young
Month: January 1970
Tweets of War in Egypt
Twitter’s role in Middle East revolutions and civil wars took new twists this past week when Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi (@MuhammedMorsi) issued a defiant tweet rejecting an ultimatum from […] Original post by Dave Young
Adobe Releases New Tools for Analyzing Social Media
Adobe Systems has publicly launched a new version of its upscale social media management application suite called Adobe Social 3.0. (See the press release.) It provides listening […] Original post by Dave Young
Awe.sm Tool Measures Social Media Impact on Business
A social marketing vendor called Awe.sm announced this week it is releasing a streamlined tool to help marketers measure the performance of social media campaigns by tracking actions triggered by […] Original post by Dave Young
WhatsApp Charges iPhone Users
WhatsApp, the popular mobile messaging app, has switched its iPhone business model to freemium–use it free for a year and then pay a premium rate of $1 per year. Previously, WhatsApp […] Original post by Dave Young
Twitterscope: News of the Week
Pope Retweeted More than Obama Pope Francis (@Pontifex) is the most influential world leader on Twitter when judged by the number of retweets, while President Obama leads in the number of […] Original post by Dave Young
Don’t Worry, Be Happier
A social network called Happier wants to be the Twitter of happiness, or maybe the Facebook of joy. Want happiness? Get the app. Happier.com got a lot of publicity last week […] Original post by Dave Young
Pinterest Wants to Get Personal, Do You?
Pinterest, the image-sharing social network, announced yesterday that it’s getting more personal with users by tracking what they do on the Web and attempting to suggest images users might like […] Original post by Dave Young
Facebook Statuses To Go Around the Web
Following up on its debut of hashtags earlier this summer, Facebook has introduced yet another feature that makes it more like Twitter. The latest feature is the ability to embed […] Original post by Dave Young
What Is ‘#YOLO’?
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What Is a ‘Flame War’?
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Facebook Tweaks its News Feed
Once again Facebook is changing the news feed seen by more than a billion users worldwide. The network announced two changes this month. The first gives older stories a […] Original post by Dave Young
Facebook Tests Trending Topics
After introducing two Twitter-like features, hashtags and embedded posts, Facebook said it is testing yet another feature popularized by its rival Twitter — trending topics. As AllThingsD reported, Facebook has […] Original post by Dave Young
Facebook to Boost Mobile Shopping?
Facebook got a lot of publicity last week for what it described as a “very small test” of a new payment system designed to simplify shopping on mobile phones. […] Original post by Dave Young
Study: Facebook Impacts Happiness
Another round of stories appeared last week suggesting that heavy Facebook use makes young people feel worse about themselves, possibly because when they see how others are leading their lives, […] Original post by Dave Young