Adding friends on Snapchat is a snap. But, if your existing friends aren’t posting new things for you to see, how do you connect with new Snapchat users to follow? There are millions and millions of people uploading new pictures and video every day. How do you
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May 2 & May 3rd, 2015 Yik Yak featured “Mayweather-Pacquiao Live!” on Peek. The fight was scheduled for May 2, 11PM ET but didn’t get started until around midnight. It was very apparent that Yik Yak users do not like Floyd Mayweather, love Manny Pacquiao, and want
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I googled Pacquiao Mayweather earlier while watching the fight on PPV. A headline read something like “The winner of Pacquiao vs. Mayweather was Meerkat & Periscope. I keep hearing about Meerkat. What exactly is the point of this software? To stream live video that you can’t record?
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Anyone thinking of making a threat against a school or college campus via a computer or cell phone should really think twice. Not only is this a stupid idea, but you’re going to get arrested for it. Today in Greenville North Carolina a 19 Year Old ECU
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Weare8 is here, kind of, and it looks very cool. They are off to a great start because they have celebrities. If the celebrities using Weare8 post unique content to the site people will definitely visit the site just for this content. Weare8 is in beta at
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Beginning in March and continuing into April 2015, I have witnessed a surge of Facebook fans on several of the brand/business pages that I have access to. These pages range from pets, legal, medical, corporate training, and a variety of other niches. Not all niches were “hit”
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I told everyone I knew back in 2012 that Hillary Clinton would be the next President of the United States. Nobody believed me. That, or they didn’t want to. Social Media is a wonderful place for politics I know several people who say “Never discuss politics on
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I was playing in Instagram the other day and I noticed that I could add a business location to some photos and not others. This used to be much easier before Instagram switched from Foursquare’s database to Facebook’s places database. Geotagging When an Instagram user uploads a
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Last week Twitter announced a partnership with Foursquare that allows users to add a location to a tweet. They also describe how to add a location to your tweet in their announcement. Businesses should use Foursquare We’ve been wondering what is up with Foursquare but it has
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Instagram is the current social network that keeps growing, growing, and growing. Instagram however currently lacks many local features. Local features Instagram lacks Users can tag locations on Instagram and there are geolocation features. As of March 2015 Instagram currently lacks: An easy way to search for
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On the web, your website is your property. It is your real estate. The more traffic you have to your property, the more it is worth. If you have a website that gets traffic, it is just like having a commercial property at a busy intersection. Of
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According to this article on WRAL news The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is considering banning Yik Yak. Some people say that Yik Yak encourages hate speech. It doesn’t encourage anything of the sort. The most popular yaks on the network are actually very funny.
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Just up the road from us today in Wake Forest North Carolina, Heritage High School was in “code red” lockdown (which has been lifted without incident). According to WRAL news the threat was tweeted out by a 14yr old in Florida. Many schools, parents, and students are
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I can hear the keyboards typing now. A new social media feature has been released! I’m sure a lot of people are probably in awe about FB’s new Place Tips feature and how it will drastically change the future of the web. And, it is interesting. What
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I recently downloaded and installed FireChat. This app sounds really cool; it is a chat app that negates the need for a network connection on your phone. Strangely enough though, I had to download it online and register it, so, it does require a network connection… Anyways,
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If you have been online long enough you remember banner advertisements. If you haven’t, please allow me to explain. Banner advertisements were a horrible ad that usually sat at the top of a web page. They were annoying, nobody wanted to see them, and even though they
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Social media companies “like” fake accounts. But why? I suppose this is just my opinion but I believe it is because they can boast about their number of users. Supposedly, these users have some sort of value. For some companies, the number of (real) accounts influences company
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It should be no surprise that seniors are using social media to research things. The generation is connected and armed with smartphones. Many marketers, businesses, and colleges use social media to broadcast their message. The only problem is, it is their message. It is great to hear
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Yik Yak is an anonymous social media application. To use it, you need to install the app on your Android or iOS device. It is very similar to Twitter, except the network is “anonymous”. (Also see: Is Yik Yak Really Anonymous?) Posts are called yaks (not tweets).
Read more →Recently, I noticed Yik Yak’s Peek feature had been updated. You can now “peek” anywhere in the world. I think there is a very good chance that we could all look back on this as the most important thing to happen in social media in 2014. Here’s
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