Big news: Posterous has been acquired by Twitter!

No shit. Great news!

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Did they intern just post a cell phone # on Twitter? That would be funny. That line must be going crazy right now, throw the phone away!

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According to a new report published by&Shareabholic,&Pinterest drove greater traffic than LinkedIn, Google Plus, Reddit, and Youtube…combined. Additionally, Pinterest was just .01% shy of tying Twitter for the 4th spot and .02% behind Google, which currently sits in 3rd place.

Pretty impressive numbers, i can see it.

Many consumer brands are also experimenting with Pinterest, using pinboards to present complementary products, ideas, and imagery to inspire consumers to visualize and remix new possibilities. From fashion to interior design and home to retail to entertainment, brands are using Pinterest to thoughtfully assemble a curated lifestyle.

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In creating its digital presence, Kate Spade has managed to convert the je ne sais quoi of its meticulously designed physical visual merchandising (read: eye-catching store windows in SoHo and on Fifth Avenue) and products into a decidedly on-brand experience. Using its blog, which is integrated prominently into its main e-commerce site, as well as varied social media presences, the Kate Spade team has developed and maintained a voice and visual point of view that reinforce the brand while avoiding heavy-handedness.

Branding, and the same theme for every platform they build a presence on: colorfoul collages of products, articles and media curated by their team. A publishing model that works.

When Kate Spade picks a direction, it goes with it, and all its content channels reinforce the same seasonal focus. It utilizes that same collage-like approach for its boards on&Pinterest, which is perhaps the most well-suited platform for fashion brands to share its inspirations, and the pattern du jour, stripes, abounds. The Kate Spade Tumblr&(also&organized as a collage) takes the theme one step further, providing the shareable added bonus of downloadable iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, and computer desktops in –you guessed it – stripes.&And, of course, Kate Spade’s&Twitter page is decked out in a striped background.

Check it out:

@katespadeny on Twitter

KateSpade on Tumblr

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Planning to make a joke on Twitter about bombing something? You might want to reconsider: according to a report from Britain, two British tourists were detained and then denied entry into the U.S. recently after they joked about destroying America and digging up Marilyn Monroe. The fact that the Department of Homeland Security and other authorities — including the FBI — are monitoring social media like Twitter and Facebook isn’t that surprising.

The FBI is looking for curation tools to curate Facebook, MySpace and Twitter... maybe the current tools fail authorities, as we can see!

Don't they do some background profiling before arresting and questioning people btw? Here was the joke... you'll be the judge:

He had posted on his Tweeter website account that he was coming to the United States to dig up the grave of Marilyn Monroe… Also on his tweeter account Mr Bryan posted that he was coming to destroy America.

In one way, i am glad the FBI, homeland security and anti-terrorism units from all around the world keep a close eye on what's being said or shared online, on the other end, i feel like i am being watched by Google, Facebook, my cell phone company, my car GPS, and now THEM on top of it... there is no more privacy, really.

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Twitter will unveil a series of new tools in the next few months, including sophisticated analytical tools, according to Erica Anderson, Twitter's manager for news and journalism.

Anderson said the analytical tools will better help publishers track the reach of tweets sent through the microblogging service. She made her comments Saturday at Columbia University's social media weekend in New York....

Anderson mentioned the new tools in passing when asked by an audience member about what was next. As described, the tools sound similar to analytical services provided by third-party firms likeHootSuite&and&SocialFlow.

She did not make it clear if the new analytical tools will include some features aimed at spotting trends.

This is a pretty big deal, something to watch closely.

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Twiangulate is the leading tool for search, analytics and mapping of connections between Twitter friends and followers.

Interesting and certainly useful. Give it a try.

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• Place your links about 25% of the way in the tweet
• via and @ get the most CTR (trust)
• "daily is out" creates hight CTR
• muser verbs, adverbs vs nouns and adjectives
• tweet later in the day or during the week ends

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Ha. Smart move by News.me after the announcement that Twiiter not only bough Summify but closed it down, that should grow their user base by a couple thousands!

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Summify, a startup that uses social data to create a personalized news digest, just announced that it has been acquired by Twitter. This sounds like a talent acquisition on Twitter's part — in other words, the main purpose of the acquisition was probably hiring the Summify team. Some of Summify's feature have been immediately disabled, it's no longer accepting new users, and in a few weeks, Summify says it will shut down the current product entirely. Meanwhile, the startup will be moving from Vancouver to San Francisco to work out of the Twitter office.

Great service. Smart guys behind it. Twitter bought brains more than code.

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Ashton Kutcher's Twiiter account was hacked over the weekend and Kutcher has sworn revenge, which he just might get.

Funny Kutcher's got friends - hackers should be careful!

Kutcher got wise to the hack and took down the tweets from his feed, which is followed by more than 9 million people. That’s when things got interesting. The hacker also broke into Kutcher’s Foursquare account, however, and in doing so the hacker also revealed his or her own location. Kutcher responded with the tweet, which includes an image of the hacker’s Foursquare account:

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• You field a weekly flood of pitches.
• People who don't know you make wildly inaccurate assumptions about things you say.
• You forget how to share with people who do know you.
• You get addicted to the approval of strangers.
• Your view of the world gets skewed.
• You're a spam magnet and a troll target.

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Is that a surprise to anyone?

This is true in particular with the so-called Generation Y — the population born from 1980 to 2000 who are now anywhere from their teenage years to their early 30s. They are considered to be the most active internet users and were born and raised at a time when computers and the internet were already an established medium of communication. But these so-called "digital natives" are not exactly easily influenced by social media marketing.

The numbers speak by themselves

only 28.7% of this demographic make purchase decisions based on what friends "like" on the social networks. In contrast, the same demographic is 44.3% more likely to respond to word-of-mouth marketing, 45.9% to in-store promotion and 39.8% to online advertising.

Brands need to engage directly with their audience/customers which results in better sales and brand awarness.

When it comes to "word of mouth marketing", there is a lot to be done and probably one of the biggest opportunities of the future.

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1. Tumblr
2. Google Reader
3. Twitter
4. Delicious
5. Instapaper/Read It Later

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Leonhard claimed that Twitter was already replacing CNN as a global news source. While the social networking service took just 26 seconds to post information on a news event, the BBC took 41 minutes. “We have a five-year time frame before cable gets overrun by what’s on the internet,” he said. “Assisted serendipity” was needed to ensure customers were able to view content that interested them.

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My takes:

• Post tweets of your blog posts. Use a variety of headlines, and test what drives the most click-throughs.

• Schedule tweets of blog posts on the weekends, as people read on the weekends, too. Also, post tweets of blog posts at night, as this targets people in other time zones.

• If you’re working on a blog post, ask your community members for help. Reach out to them, and ask for their tips. It shows there’s a person behind the Twitter account.

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Twitter is a powerful platform for websites to share their content, and drive traffic and engagement. However, people have struggled to accurately measure the amount of traffic Twitter is sending to their websites, in part because web analytics software hasn’t evolved as quickly as online sharing and social signals.

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The people who started to follow the account after it debuted Friday knew they were signing up for a large volume of hurricane-related tweets, so that helped. Despite that, the Times editors tried to make sure they did not waste anyone’s time. How often will the Times need the all-out coverage of @NYTLive? Definitely not every day or even every week, Heron said. Recent examples that might have been suitable include the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case, Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in Egypt, or the Japanese nuclear disaster, she said.

• The latest reported updates. The Times was able to reach a much deeper level of detail than its main account can. Each home page story gets tweeted by @nytimes. @NYTLive, though, could go deeper, sharing any update for an existing story.
• Curation of other sources. @NYTLive retweeted a lot of information from others, including other Times accounts and independent sources.
• User engagement. @NYTLive called attention to many engagement efforts from @NYTMetro, which deputy metro editor Clifford Levy ran all weekend. Heron said in future uses of @NYTLive she hopes to offer more chances to be involved.

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tweetdoc collects tweets and publishes them into PDF documents for you.

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One of the questions that we see a great deal of on our Search Engine Land Facebook Page and LinkedIn Group is How can we get our Google+ feed to post in

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Browse trending music, tv, movies and popular links shared and liked by your Facebook friends.

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A time released tweet is a tweet your followers will read! Use Tweue to queue your tweets and make sure your followers don't get overloaded with your important updates!

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Looking for the infographic? Click here or scroll to bottom of post. You might also want to read “What makes a tweet great?” a deeper exploration of RCEF factors, and this great explanation of not being fooled by your social media

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With its new t.co URL wrapping, Twitter just got the respect it deserves.

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LinkedIn has been shifting its attention recently – from its networking features to the value of the members in it… in other words, its sharing features. The new LinkedIn Today is a pretty impressive feature – providing a nice rundown of the shared links that are most popular, segmented by topic. In my opinion, Twitter would be best served by shifting its attention from the users and starting to pay attention to their stream of content. Trending topics has long been a huge winner for Twitter, and could be an absolute goldmine. Rather than showing me a list of tweets for a user, or a constant stream of their tweets, why not show me the trending topics within my network – and a curated collage of the actual pieces of content.

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Twitter quietly added a prompt to post a public reply to any user whose profile page you visit today; it's a small but logical step to take and one that makes the interface all the more supportive of social interaction. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey replied to user @jSammy17 and said the feature was new today - that appears to be the company's only public statement about it so far. Activity streams, photo uploaders and media galleries, now changes to the posting interface - with all these changes made in one week you'd think there was a hot new social...

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Starting today, Twitter will begin testing its link-wrapping feature which will automatically shorten all URL’s 20 characters long or greater into t.co-wrapped links. This test will affect a certain percentage of tweets posted publicly through the service, or sent out via direct message. Specifically, Twitter is hoping to determine if there are any user-facing problems that will arise from the system, once operating at scale. This means you may start seeing links shortened to begin with “t.co” appearing on Twitter over the course of the week. And you may see a link you paste into a tweet automatically shortened for you to use the new URL-wrapping feature, if that link meets the required length.

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This is quite a risky move if you ask me. Do we need another Twitter? Srlsly? Or am i missing something bigger here?

And that messes things up for us! @username != twitter.com/username anymore!

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Twitter today started rolling out features to help shed light on the way tweeted content is received by other users. Two new tabs on Twitter’s Web site show users when their own tweets or tweets from the people they follow are favorited or retweeted. The tabs are only available on Twitter.com and at the moment only for a small percentage of users. Twitter does offer some exposure of favorites and other activities around a user’s personal tweets through its user stream’s API, which many developers incorporate. However, the new Activity feature exposes activity around other people’s content, which is intended to promote discovery and exploration, said Twitter spokesperson Carolyn Penner.

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Twitter has acquired Bagcheck, a sharing and discovery platform. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, and co-founder Sam Pullara will be joining the Twitter engineering team. We’ve embedded the announcement below. Bagcheck allows people to share and discover what’s inside your “bags”. People can comment on and share lists of the stuff they use and why. By ‘bags’, the startup refers to any sort of curated list or collection. For example, people can post a collection of photography gear or what their favorite cooking tools are.

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A few weeks into Google+, and most at least know of the new social networking site, even if they haven't joined yet. Still resisting?

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Dave Winer's response to Scoble's post about Google+ making twitter boring.

It isn't until a technology becomes boring that it becomes truly useful. Because it's the things people do with tech that are interesting. Tech for its own sake doesn't go so far. What I want is tech that fades into the background, serves as a stage for the ideas of the performers, the people.

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This is a good read with advice that's not only good for Twitter, but other startups...

What can Twitter do? Revamp lists. But Twitter’s management thinks lists suck, so I don’t see Twitter getting this feature anytime soon and that’s really too bad. It’s what will really put Twitter into a box and soon, you’ll see, how this affects search and all sorts of news. This is Twitter’s weakest point, and it will become more and more apparent that Twitter has blown a real opportunity here to make its system more interesting.

The message I get from this... you are not your user. Build stuff that people want, not just some grand idea that's in your own head.

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Biz Stone, Ev Williams Jason G (Twitter founders) started up: The Obvious Corp. Content curation perhaps?

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Our plan is to develop new projects and work on solving big problems aligned along a simple mission statement: The Obvious Corporation develops systems that help people work together to improve the world. This is a dream come true!

It's a good gig if you can get it ...

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The web is a seething mass of people sharing on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube and they are monster networks with hundreds of millions of

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We want to make our tools easier to use so you can focus on your job: finding sources, verifying facts, publishing stories, promoting your work and yourself—and doing all of it faster and faster all the time. We know you come from different generations. Some are native to the pilcrow, others native to the hashtag. You began your careers in different media: radio, print, broadcast, online and mobile. But you share a common bond: the desire to make a difference in the world, bringing reliable information to the communities you serve.

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Twitter tools to help community managers schedule tweets, monitor conversations, curate information and engage communities.

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Twitter is a wonderful communications tool and while it does many things really well, there are a few things it doesn’t do so well. One of those things is having discussions about specific topics with specific groups of people. This is often known as a TwitChat. I participate in a number of weekly TwitChats. These TwitChats are often very educational and can be a lot of fun; that is, for the participants. For everyone else, they can be a real hassle. Now, you might say that Hash Tags (#) are the solution, but they’re not. The Hash Tag evolved as a way for Twitter users to more easily find tweets on a specific topic. TwitChats are dependent upon them (just add a #Topic to any tweet and set up a search to find them).

Interesting...

For example, a Directory of Channels might look like this: - Main Channel: Medicine, or Healthcare (whatever) - SubChannel: Diabetes - Sub(Sub)Channel: Type 1 Diabetes - Sub(Sub)Channel: Type 2 Diabetes - Sub(Sub, Sub)Channel: Type 2 Diabetes Research

Channels, lists...

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Together, StrawberryJ.am and Buffer lace together a Twitter-powered reader and scheduler in order to dig up and retweet the top stories in your social stream.

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Consumers follow their favorite businesses on Twitter to get an inside look at the business, to find out about new products, earn discounts and be a part of a community. Businesses have the potential to turn these fans into brand ambassadors by making their followers feel special and appreciated. Here are six ways to reward your Twitter followers.

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Great breakdown of the pros and cons of Twitter. And NO, Twitter is not a waste of time. You simply must CURATE your feed effectively so that you can filter out the crap.

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The key to deciding how fast to respond on Twitter is to take off your business hat and put on your person hat. How would you handle it in a social situation.

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Turns out it's not just news organizations that are grappling with proper Twitter etiquette for their employees. The U.S. Secret Service has also hit a social media snag, via an all-too-candid tweet on Fox News that forced the agency to issue a rare official apology. And to compound the Secret Service's very bad week on [...]

Epic!!

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It's not Ashton Kutcher.

It's Lady Gaga, who else could it be!

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Twitter is down and fail whales abound.

Is someone keeping track of how many times Twitter has been down ever?

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