New platforms, apps, and networking sites come out about every second, and you gotta keep up, right? While it isn't possible to adopt every new strategy, it's good to be in the know about current trends and news. Here is what is new and hot right now: VINE Last week, Twitter introduced Vine: a mobile service [...]
Retweeting a post is one of the greatest compliments you can pay to someone on Twitter. You're saying that a particular post is so relevant, interesting, informative, or entertaining, that you deemed it worthy to share with your followers. By retweeting, you are implicitly endorsing the content of the tweet and the tweeter him/herself. Nice! But [...]
Pancakes, crepes, griddle cakes, Frixuelos, or short stacks. Whatever they're called, they are certainly delicious! Yes, today is National Pancake Day, a celebration launched in 2006 by International House of Pancakes. Since the event's inception, IHOP has raised more than $10 million to support charities. Today, you can enjoy a free short stack of Buttermilk pancakes [...]
The big game was a huge affair on Twitter, with users posting 24.1 million tweets - about the plays, the halftime show, the power outage... Beyonce was apparently the biggest star of the event, with her show generating 268,000 Tweets per Minute (TPM). The most mentioned players during the game were Ray Lewis (@Raylewis), Joe Flacco [...]
“RT @(you): Your post is worthy of rebroadcasting to my valuable community. I want them to see how awesome you are!” A “retweet” is a rebroadcasting of your post to someone else’s community. If a twitter user finds your message inspiring, informative, entertaining, or simply worthy of re-sharing, they will repost it, citing you as the [...]
Well, it happened. Last night, Justin Bieber surpassed Lady Gaga to become the Twitter user with the most followers. All hail the King. Gaga was the most followed since she blew past Britney Spears in 2010. She and Justin have been the two most popular users on the social networking site, but Bieber had always lagged [...]
Yesterday's Presidential Inauguration caused a lot of excitement - especially on Twitter. More than one million tweets were sent out during the ceremony, easily overshadowing the 82,392 tweets that were posted during the 2009 swearing-in. This extreme usage caused a bit of an engineering nightmare, and many Twitter users had trouble tweeting. The company confirmed the issue [...]
It’s a New Year. With a new year come new goals, new ideas, and new trends. So what is on the horizon in terms of social media? Yes, Twitter and Facebook will remain in the forefront – sharing millions of thoughts, ideas, and opinions (sometimes in 140 characters or less). But let’s take a moment to [...]
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The Story: After losing the Vote to build a mega-retail complex in January 2010, the national builder decided to regroup and try again in 2012. The issue at hand for the 6,000+ residents of a cozy mountain community was whether or not the developer could build a mixed-use shopping and residential center on a swath of [...]