Why do Trending topics Trend on Twitter? If you go to the trending topic you will find tons of people asking this question, but they don’t phrase it like this. Instead they ask “why is [trending topic] trending? Usually they ask this with complete and utter astonishment that something so outrageous, false, ridiculous, mundane, etc [...]
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Posted in Foursquare, Social Media on Mar 17th, 2010
Recent publicity at SXSW gave the gang at Foursquare 100,000 new users in 10 days. Obviously people saw something they liked about the location based social networking site. I was hooked back in October. Not sure exactly when I signed up, but my first check in was at the local Noodles & Company. You get [...]
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Geared toward the AEC industry but relevant for everyone looking to get started on LinkedIn. This post briefly explains the initial steps one should take to be a growing part of this social media business networking.
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Posted in Twitter on May 9th, 2009
Suppose you are following someone (@firstperson) who said “@cooldude I am looking forward to tonight.” But when you tried to check out that person (@cooldude) you found they had protected their updates. Well, these are not so protected. If you Google the person’s username (cooldude w/ no @symbol) as well as the @firstperson you will [...]
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