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Why Instagram will be the next big social media platform

Why Instagram will be the next big social media platform | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

“Of the Americans surveyed who currently use a social media platform, only 18 percent currently have a profile on Instagram. That’s paltry compared to Facebook (94%) or Twitter (47%). But here are four reasons why Instagram could explode in 2013.”

 

(Published Oct. 10, 2012.)

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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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Seven ways The New York Times is using social media for ‘deeper’ engagement

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Liz Heron, social media editor of the New York Times on seven ways the news outlet is getting "deep and meaningful."

 

(Published Feb. 13, 2012.)

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Best Twitter Tools: News Discovery and Topic Monitoring via Hashtags

Best Twitter Tools: News Discovery and Topic Monitoring via Hashtags | Social Media and Journalists | Scoop.it

Robin Good: One of the most effective and popular methods to stay abreast of a topic area or to discover new stories about an issue is the use "hashtags" for Twitter seaches.

 

Here is a bunch of tools that make it easy for you to monitor and  search, one or multiple Twitter hashtags on your preferred topics.

 

Tools list: http://www.searchenginepeople.com/blog/best-tools-to-summarize-twitter-hashtags.html

 

(Published August 2012.)

 

 

 


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