Study shows how to get more followers on Twitter

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Here’s how to get more followers on Twitter: Be positive, be clear and share quality stuff. That’s according to a new extensive study out of the Georgia Institute of Technology. Researchers analyzed 500,000 tweets over 15 months from 507 Twitter users and found that posting more positive Tweets can help you gain followers. The research… Read More…

3 ways your brand can learn from how sports teams handle social media

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When panelists are introduced at an event, the audience usually gets a typical rundown of accolades and achievements of the given speaker. You know the drill.  Tuesday night inside City Hall was a tad different. When moderator Matt Pittman took the mic to start the night, it was obvious that this particular Seattle Social Media… Read More…

Instagram hits 100M user mark 28 months after launch

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Instagram, welcome to the 100 million club. The Facebook-owned photo sharing social network announced today that two-and-a-half years after launch, Instagram has surpassed the 100 million user mark. Co-founder Kevin Systrom penned a blog post on the milestone, thanking users and writing about Instagram’s early days inside a frigid San Francisco office when he and… Read More…

Does this Tweet-based map of Seattle accurately describe your neighborhood?

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This is pretty cool. Microsoft researcher Andrés Monroy-Hernández, an expert in social media analysis, has come up with an interesting way to view Seattle. (One we’ve never quite seen before). Think of it as the citywide Tweet map — in the style of the popular Ork Posters.  The map was created using Twitter data over a… Read More…

30 Hour Famine: Teens tweet about starving for charity

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This weekend, the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision will put on its 20th “30 Hour Famine,” a biannual youth fasting event aimed at raising awareness and money for hungry families around the globe. Participants were asked to raise money prior to the event, and today, they will begin fasting to get a glimpse at what it… Read More…

Youngsters think Microsoft is getting cooler as it ages

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Looks like those hip new Microsoft commercials are paying off.  A Reuters poll found that just under 50 percent of 853 people aged 18 to 29 think Microsoft is “cooler” than it was in years past. The Redmond software giant actually did better than Twitter and Facebook in the coolness department. Only 42 percent thought… Read More…

MTV and BET’s fake Twitter hack PR stunt wasn’t funny and raises serious questions

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MTV and BET just fooled us all, and I’m not sure if it was funny, stupid or scary. Yesterday, Burger King’s Twitter account was hacked and the same hackers did it to Jeep today. Then, just an hour ago, it appeared the @MTV and @BET accounts — both are owned by Viacom — were also… Read More…

Dethroned: Burger King Twitter account hacked to look like McDonalds

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The Burger King social media team sure is having an eventful Monday morning. The fast food company’s Twitter account, @BurgerKing, was hacked for more than an hour starting at 9 a.m. PST morning and its Twitter name was changed to “McDonalds” and logo to the Golden Arches. The account is now suspended, but there are… Read More…

POLL: Should employers have access to your social media passwords?

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Imagine this for a second: You walk into your next job interview, sit down and the employer asks you for all your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Tumblr passwords. This is a requirement for the job, the interviewer says. What would you do? The Seattle Times today wrote about Washington Senate Bill 5211 that would prohibit employers… Read More…

The 10 social media tools that every startup must have

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Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate. With the revolution has come insane amounts of data, analytics and information about customers, followers and users. How can companies leverage this social media data in ways to help analyze parts of their business? That’s part of what Andy Boyer included in his talk about social media… Read More…