To celebrate April Fool’s 2017, Google introduced Google Gnome and Amazon jumped in on the fun with Petlexa. Did Twitter partake? On Twitter, when you create a new account, until you enter your own pic you are given an egg. Makes sense, as the logo is a
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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
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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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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
Read more →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
Read more →I have recently turned to Twitter for much of my news. Mainstream news networks haven’t covered many things that I have an interest in, and, when they do, they seem more and more skewed lately. Plus, the news on Twitter is delivered instantly. In 2011, when an
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Update 9/30/2014: September 27 & 28, 2014, my Twitter feed looked exactly like it does below. I am not sure if it was an error or if they were testing a new algorithm on certain users. As of the 29th, my feed is thankfully back to normal.
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Is any social networking site on the Internet today as important and influential as Twitter? According to a 2014 study, Twitter has at least 645,750,000 active registered users. 135,000 new Twitter users sign up every day, and 190 million unique users visit the site every month. Sites
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A brewery that I occasionally visit has a twitter logo on their door upon entrance. When I visit their website, 20% of the top of their page is dedicated to “getting social”. When you sit down at a table in their family friendly pub you see their
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Today animated GIFs started playing on Twitter! Is this for the birds? A lot of users hate animated GIFs. A lot of users love animated GIFs. Love them or hate them, they are here to stay. It seems inevitable with the advances in speed in Internet access.
Read more →There are millions of small businesses in the United States. Do they need social media? Here are a few fun facts: Social can definitely help SEO and is required in highly competitive niches, but otherwise, ranking in search has little or nothing to do with your social
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As covered in the general news, there have been quite a few attacks lately. The latest security breach comes from twitter were about 250,000 accounts were compromised to some extent. Twitter has responded and as a precautionary security measure has reset passwords and revoked session tokens for
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