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No Time for Social Media? 4 Tips to Consider

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Social media can be one of the most powerful tools in your box as a business owner. But, managing and making the most from social media can be tricky and time-consuming if you are not an expert. How do you improve engagement with your audience? Craft social posts that encourage your audience to convert? Make sure that you are posting interesting social content on a regular basis? When you have all the other aspects of running your business to consider, it can quickly start to cut into your time.

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How To Embed Twitter-Hosted Videos On Your Website?

Following along the same lines as Facebook, Twitter recently announced a video-hosting feature that lets you capture and upload videos using official Twitter apps without having to upload them first on a third-party service such as YouTube. This was indeed a welcome feature, and in sharp contrast to how Twitter had been predominantly text-based and monotonous in the past. However, as with any video-hosting service, you need a way to share that video elsewhere on the web.
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How Snapchat Can Be Used To Grow Your Audience?

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Snapchat is an exciting new social media platform through which people can send photos and short videos to each other. We recently talked about some of the ways you can market your brand on Snapchat. One problem for brands was, reaching out to their potential customers. Pulling contact numbers out of your marketing list was less than desirable. With a new update though, Snapchat has added the Discover feature for users to discover new content.
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How To Post On Instagram From The Web?

Post on Instagram from web
According to a latest study by the Pew Research Internet Project, Instagram is now the fastest growing social network. Somehow Instagram has managed to find the right balance between social sharing, and social interaction. The result is a place that is growing in both capabilities and popularity, and drawing more and more non-conventional users to it.
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Pinterest Rolling Out Promoted Pins For Marketers

Pinterest for Business
Pinterest is so much more than just sharing images. Think about it; people on Pinterest are more interested in what they want (probably in the future), as opposed to what they're doing (as on Facebook, Twitter etc.). And with Pinterest Guided Search, users can look through billions of pins to find things they've probably never seen before! This makes Pinterest the perfect tool for marketers. Pinterest has announced that it will now start rolling out promoted pins, so that marketers can fully benefit from the network.
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How To Change Your YouTube Account URL?

Are you stuck with your YouTube account URL you picked long ago that doesn't quite capture the essence of what you do anymore? Despair not, for YouTube is giving you a way out. You can now get a new custom URL that's more befitting of your brand. This is definitely better than opening up a brand new channel, and losing all of your previous subscribers. The option will be made available over the next week.
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The Fastest Growing Social Networks And Apps For Marketers Today

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What is the hottest social networking platform to be on right now? If you thought Pinterest or Instagram, then you'd be close. But not close enough. If you thought Facebook, you couldn't have been more wrong! This time, the baton has been picked up by a network that's a blogging platform as well! A report by Global Web Index reveals that Tumblr is now the fastest growing social network, with its active user base having grown 120% in the past six months!
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How To Send Money With SnapChat?

Send money with Snapchat!
Just when we thought messaging apps couldn't get any more unconventional, along comes Snapchat with a whole new trick up its sleeve. The popular photo messaging application that recently came to fame has announced a new feature "Snapcash" today through a deal with Square Cash, whereby users can send money to their friends as simply as sending a text message. The feature has been rolled out on Android, with the iOS version coming soon.
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Why Should You Join New Social Networks Early On?

Ello and Tsu - new social media to watch
It is true that life has become too fast-paced to be delving into social networks left and right. Joining every other social network is a mark of the overly ambitious, and is sometimes frowned upon. But when a promising new network pops up, getting onto the bandwagon isn't necessarily a bad thing. We have seen two new social networks surface this fall, and here's why you should check them out before everyone else does.
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Twitter Building Timeline Design Similar To Facebook News Feed

New Twitter newsfeed
If you are one of those Twitter users who stick around because of its simplicity and sense of urgency, then your days of enjoying Twitter are probably at an end. Twitter has recently announced that it is working on some changes on users' homepage streams, and replacing the real-time updates with an algorithmically-controlled timeline not unlike the one you see on Facebook. If you run a business, this could mean a new approach for Twitter marketing is in order.
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How To Use Twitter To Drive Holiday Sales?

Drive sales with Twitter
Winter is a wonderful time, as it brings around the holiday season! Shoppers from around the world wait for this all year, which makes it a great time for businesses to get active. According to recent stats from Twitter, 54% of the users are motivated to make a purchase after looking at promotions. So for businesses looking to capitalize on the sales potential this holiday season, now would be the time to start developing a campaign to get new customers on board.
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Users In France Can Now Transfer Money With Tweets!

Transfer money with Twitter
If you had social networks like Twitter pegged as mere amusements, then you couldn't be more wrong. Social media finds its uses in many daily-life situations, the most recent one being wire transfer. If you live in France and want to send money over to someone, you can do it as simply as making a tweet. Your 140 characters might be worth real money soon. Perhaps the New Social Order is upon us!
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Meet Ello - The Anti-Facebook Social Network

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You might be spending dozens of hours weekly on Facebook or Twitter, but it is Ello that's the new cool kid around the block. Ello is a new social network that intends to go up against the big guns, and it isn't backing down. The slogan "Simple, beautiful & ad-free" says it all. And the network intends to knock out the competition by striking at where it hurts the most.
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Twitter Now Working To Make Timeline More Like Facebook

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A few days ago, Twitter rolled out experimental tweaks on the main Twitter timeline, showing actions like favorited tweets to some users. It also began showing tweets from accounts that you don't follow. Twitter has now made these changes official, which marks a new journey for Twitter timelines as they start resembling Facebooks'. Timelines used to be simple before - just tweets related to people you have followed. But there's a new timeline algorithm at play now.
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How To Embed A Tweet Within A Tweet?

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Ever felt the need to quote a tweet without having to retweet it or copy-pasting its entire content? You can save quite a bit of character space simply by embedding other tweets within your own. Tweetception, if you will. Twitter mobile apps previously allowed users to embed Tweets within Tweets, a feature that has now been made available for the desktop version as well. And it couldn't be any easier!
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Keep Track Of Twitter Trends With Hashtag Tracking And Analytics Tools

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Do you use Twitter or other social media to stay up to date with the latest happenings? With the use of hashtags on Twitter, you can broadcast and stay updated with events around the world. Not only that, Twitter can be used to monitor the latest trends. Hashtags make communications filterable and organized, which could be put to great use for getting feedback and suggestions. But there's more - you can take your research to the next level by using some great hashtag tracking and analytics tools!
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Now Search Twitter Hashtags And Users With Bing!

Bing + Twitter
Search is one game Microsoft just won't give up on, even in the face of stern competition and enormous odds. Constantly adding new features, Bing is all gearing up to take on Google. In a fresh announcement, Microsoft has taken its partnership with Twitter further to include more content from the microblogging site on Bing Search. Starting this week, Bing will include Twitter hashtag and handles searches in its search results.
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How To Make The Most Of Animated GIFs On Twitter?

Twitter introduces animated GIFs
Twitter timelines used to be woefully color-devoid up until only a few months ago when they finally decided to allow users to add images to tweets. A welcome change, no doubt. Taking one step further, Twitter has introduced another feature - support for animated GIFs - something that has been sadly absent from social media. Facebook doesn't support animated GIFs as yet, which gives marketers on Twitter one more trick up their sleeves.
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How To Find Out Who Isn't Following You Back On Twitter?

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Social media is all about connections. But while Facebook might be referred to as an on-stage microphone, Twitter is more like a two-way radio, where businesses rely on interactions to grow (which is kind of ironic, considering it is Facebook that requires mutual consent for a connection). If you're active on Twitter, you may know that when you follow someone, they might not always follow you back. Well, you can use tools like FriendOrFollow to find out who isn't following you back, and who is inactive etc.
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Pinterest Announces Guided Search For Easier Content Discovery

Pinterest Guided Search
Search engines are great for answering specific questions. For example, a tutorial for building Android apps, weather conditions in a city, and so on. But don't you sometimes feel at a loss to pinpoint what you're looking for, and randomly sift through the internet for a chance encounter? Perhaps you need some creative ideas for your upcoming vocations. But there never existed a search engine that could help you with such stuff.

Until now.
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