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What cost Twitter Brand Pages?

January 30, 2012 Facebook , Social media , Social networking , Twitter

Businesses can no longer arrogantly assume that users will come to their website as users opt for social networking’s walled garden – but at what price? $25,000 perhaps? Twitter’s about to roll out ‘Brand Pages’ for commercial partners who’ve committed to spending $25,000 on its ad products, including promoted tweets and trends. The pages give [...]

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Twitter blasts Search, plus Your World

January 12, 2012 Facebook , Social media , Social networking

Twitter has complained about changes made by Google to integrate its social network Google+ into the search engine’s results page. The new feature, called Search plus Your World, will automatically push results from Google+ up the search rankings. Tweeting on the news, Twitter’s lawyer Alex Macgillivray described it as a “bad day for the internet”. [...]

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5 tips for social media success – 12 (work) days before Christmas

December 19, 2011 Social media , Social networking

With now just 5 (work) days left before Christmas we continue stringing together 12 posts culminating in a pear (tree) on December 23rd. Today – top tips for social media. While it may be hard to believe, given the money you’ve sunk into the company website over the years, for many people “the internet” IS [...]

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Let’s fly! #newtwitter hits mobile and smartphones

December 9, 2011 Social media , Social networking , Web development

Recent iterations of Facebook and Google+ left us wondering what Twitter were up to… but not any more. Approacheth #newtwitter…. A redesigned version of the microblogging service Twitter is set to hit accounts over the next few weeks after new smart phone apps and the mobile site were pushed to distribution yesterday. Tweetdeck, recently acquired [...]

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