Good afternoon all. We have everything from Alex Ferguson to Ryan Gosling this week. Check it out Alex Ferguson has retired. 1.4 million mentions of it on Twitter in the first hour – by comparison it took four hours for the death of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher to top one million. Check out more … Continue reading »
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Social Media Newsletter 05/04/2013
Hello all, I hope you have all had a fantastic week! The introduction of Google Nose should make it that little bit better… Facebook have launched Facebook Home- Facebook is not building a phone and it is not building an operating system- having said that it is basically turning an Android phone into a … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 01/03/2013
Hello everybody. I have lots of social news for you this week from Paddy Power’s latest and greatest to tweeting bikes?! Facebook Facebook to help advertisers target customers through offline purchases and other habits with new data partnerships. Facebook has confirmed reports made by Ad Age last week announcing it is to partner with Datalogix, … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 25/01/2013
Hello all! This week we have Twitter’s video version of Instagram, a dramatic surprise, Justin Bieber’s behind and much more! Twitter/Vine integration Twitter acquired Vine last year, a small video- sharing start up. Why? I believe it is because they want to make it the video version of Instagram. This is Twitters first stand-alone app … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 9th October
Presidential Elections and Social Media Breaking Social Media records- Previously the most retweeted picture ever was held by Justin Bieber with 223,376 retweets back in September according to Buzzfeed. After winning the election Obama tweeted the above image which at the time of writing has had over 800,000 retweets. The same image has also broken … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 02/10/2012
#HurricaneSandy The #Sandy Hashtag Page was set up which provided the latest news for the storm in one area. The American Red Cross app called ‘The Hurricane’ enabled users to automatically update Twitter, Facebook and their phone contacts with a simple message, “I’m safe.” Gap and American Apparel – FAIL -Brands using world disasters as a way … Continue reading »
Social Media Newsletter 12/10/2012
Twitter News Prime Minister David Cameron has joined Twitter despite having famously claimed “too many twits might make a twat”. Which meant the The Conservative Party and himself topped the charts during conference season. O2 bosses Twitter AGAIN! – A couple of months ago I wrote about how amazing O2’s social response was to … Continue reading »
Why The Kindle could be the worst thing that’s happened to new authors.
I know the evidence suggests otherwise, the rapid uptake of Kindles in the UK has been nothing short of a phenomenon. Downloaded books now sell more than printed books on Amazon & Waterstones. And my own personal experience has shown that since owning one (From August this year) I have read seven books! Seven books … Continue reading »
