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How Romney Learned the Hard Truth about Promoted Hashtags

How Romney Learned the Hard Truth about Promoted Hashtags | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

Telling people to use a hashtag can turn around and bite you: “Thanks to Twitter's overdeveloped instinct for mockery, this is a fairly common tale. ... so common that it even earned an insufferably jargony name: a bashtag. ... Romney's stacks up as one of the worst bashtags Twitter's seen.” #AreYouBetterOff

 

(Published Sept. 6, 2012.)

 

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Journalism 2.0 Startups to Watch

Journalism 2.0 Startups to Watch | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

"This year’s most promising new venture may be PandoDaily, a blog launched amid much fanfare this month. In its infancy, PandoDaily is already slated to become the site of record for tech startups. Sarah Lacy, a former TechCrunch reporter, developed the blog after raising an impressive $2.5 million. ..."

 

"The stand-out successes in this category [content curators] are Flipboard for its stunning user interface, Zite, a newsapp for the iPad that was recently acquired by CNN, and Pulse, an app which partners with top-tier news organizations to drive cross-platform news consumption ..."

 

(Published Jan. 29, 2012.)

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