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Babies, Burritos, and Blunders | This Week In Social Media
Royal Pain—Er, Baby Unless your Internet, cable, AND cellular service have been down this week, you probably know that Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge celebrated the birth of their first...
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LinkedIn, Internet.org, and Ben Affleck | This Week In Social Media
LinkedIn Does A Bunch Of Stuff This week, professional networking platform LinkedIn made, well, a bunch of changes—starting with the introduction of its new University Pages. Targeting “younger users...
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Yahoo’s New Logo, Path’s New Features, and Twitter’s New Search Engine | This...
Yahoo Reveals New Logo After 30 days of teasing potential new logos, web giant Yahoo has finally released the winner. The Internet, predictably, is displeased. An overwhelming 79% of users prefer...
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Social Media During Times Of Tragedy
Social media is all about community—and in times of tragedy or national distress, community becomes more important than ever. Internet-goers use social media to reflect, react, and respond to tragedy;...
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Instagram Ads, Hashtag Sales, and a Government Shutdown | This Week In Social...
Government Shutdown Shuts Down Some Twitter Accounts Oh, the horror! Sure, all federal employees deemed “nonessential” have been temporarily furloughed in the wake of Tuesday’s government shutdown… but...
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Custom Twitter Timelines, Popular Pins, and #AskJPM | This Week In Social Media
Twitter adds custom timelines Twitter announced Tuesday the ability to create custom timelines, which are “a new type of timeline” controlled by selecting the tweets you wish to include. Similar to the...
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Unfollow Buttons, Amazon Drones, and Salsa wars | This Week In Social Media
The Salsa Fiasco That Never Was In the world’s most hilarious (but also fake) Twitter war of all time, comedian Kyle Kinane got into a gritty public feud on Sunday with purveyor of fine Mexican...
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Planet Hillary, Pope Francis, and Facebook algorithms | This Week In Social...
Facebook punishes text posts That’s right—just when your social media managers cozied up to text-only page posts for their higher reach and engagement—Facebook changed their algorithm again. But that’s...
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#SochiProblems, Twitter Earnings, and Facebook’s Anniversary | This Week In...
Twitter’s Post-IPO Earnings Have Investors Aflutter Twitter’s doing great—but you wouldn’t know it by looking at their stock. Despite making nearly $243 million last quarter—beating analyst estimates...
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Facebook buys WhatsApp, Google plays babysitter, and social media gets a...
Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 Oops—make that $19 billion. NINETEEN BILLION DOLLARS. For an app you’ve never heard of (have you?). Move over, Instagram—turns out your $1 billion deal with Facebook last...
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