September 15, 2015 Snapchat released several new filters that makes taking selfies to a whole new level. In fact, people are puking rainbows. There are videos, GIFs, tweets, vines, snaps, and Instagrmas of people puking rainbows everywhere. This viral YouTube video shows the filters: The Snapchat app
Read more →People all over the planet are sitting around with the Snapchat app open, refreshing it, dying to see some entertaining content. Do you want to provide it? That is what I find most intriguing about Snapchat- the engagement level. If you have 1,000 followers and snap something,
Read more →Over the course of the last six months I have immersed myself in the Snapchat app. I first heard about Snapchat in October of 2012 when many UNC students were tweeting to “Snap them”. As with most popular social networks, it all started with college students. Today, Snapchat
Read more →A video which has been played for 1 second or longer counts as a viewed video on Snapchat. With Snapchat growth exploding, Snapchat is on the radar for a lot of people who study or are infatuated with social media. Many of these people have trouble wrapping
Read more →This week the International Business Times released an article, later confirmed by Snapchat, that Snapchat videos are being viewed over 4 Billion times each day. This was coming I never go around saying “I told you so”, but, I did hit the nail on the head with
Read more →A video is given 1 view on Facebook each time the video has been played for at least 3 seconds. Snapchat, Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook and other platforms have many different metrics. At Facebook, if someone plays your video for 3 seconds or more, you get 1 view
Read more →These days everyone is on social media. Even presidential candidates. “[Candidates] use social media to try to generate attention, to push a particular story or agenda that they have,” said Jennifer Stromer-Galley, the author of Presidential Campaigning and the Internet Age. “They use social media to increase
Read more →If you are looking for entertaining, amusing, funny Snapchat accounts to follow I’ve got you covered. Here’s a list which includes Snapcodes when possible. @mplatco Michael Platco is a Snapchat influencer, consultant, and artist. He draws funny snaps very often. His Snapchat username is mplatco. Here is
Read more →As of August 2015, Google has stripped Google Plus from Local Search Result pages. I wrote about the recent changes to the new Google Local 3 pack here. Now that people from Google search can no longer see the Google+ link or click through to a business
Read more →Nearly nobody I know in the business world uses Google Plus. And that’s because it drives very little web traffic. For many businesses, this is more than enough of a reason to avoid a social media network. Anyone who tells you differently is either ignorant or lying.
Read more →Today someone asked me if their connections on the social media site Facebook impacted their credit score. I’m not sure where they heard this rumor, but nothing Facebook does surprises me any more so I decided to look into it. It turns out that a recent article
Read more →The FDA has been cracking down on what claims people may or may not make about essential oils. This is because some people claim that various oils do everything from easing autism symptoms to preventing the contraction of the ebola virus. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Read more →Looking for some Yik pics? Look no further. Yik Yak now allows images to be displayed. Yik Yak images are manually reviewed, probably due to the threats and arrests. Yik Yak has largely been used by college students. Some of the posts are hilarious; you can see
Read more →I’ve been there. I’ve owned a small business that I wanted to get in front of as many eyeballs as possible. I’ve also wondered if social media helps SEO. And, I’ve spent way too much time exploring this myself. Common questions about Social + SEO & Social
Read more →May 19, 2015 Google and Twitter announced that Tweets will begin displaying in Google search on mobile devices. Sometimes. Within hours of the announcement I started getting the question.. “Len, why aren’t my tweets displaying in Google Mobile Search?” So, I had to check it out. I
Read more →Yik Yak now allows users to upload images, and the Featured Peek area now allows users from all over to participate in conversations (as opposed to traditional Yak conversations where you must be geographically near where the conversation is taking place). These Peek conversations are gone after
Read more →Less than 24 hours after our post mentioning Snapchat competing with television, news was released that Snapchat will be getting music videos. This is Snapchat’s next step into entertainment. When I was younger we had a TV channel that played music videos. Hmm, what was the name
Read more →Last week I had a brief affair with Snapchat. It is mostly over. Here’s what I learned. The experiment I allowed my Snaps to be public. I creatively gained 200 followers. I started snapping. I put up silly drawings and funny pictures of things that I saw,
Read more →The primary purpose of social media is to bring us together. I’ve recently seen a perfect example of social media being used for this purpose in the creation of Snapchat’s Campus MyStory that popped up at my school. It allows people from the surrounding area to submit
Read more →Anything can be used the wrong way; the only thing that it takes for a crime to take place is desire and opportunity. Many Snapchat users feel as if they are anonymous or that only a few people will see their snaps. Making a mistake just to
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