Posts Tagged ‘twitter’
Prime Minister David Cameron, speaking in the wake of the shocking riots across England, has proposed banning people from social media platforms if they can be shown to be engaging in or plotting criminal activities. Cameron (and several other politicians and commentators) have taken notice of the way social media and communications platforms were used [...]
Search engine optimisation (often referred to as SEO) is a tricky game at the best of times; throw in a new algorithm update and an increased reliance on social media, and it’s extremely easy to quickly find yourself lost. Two of the major search engines operating in the UK – Google and Bing – have [...]
Twitter can be a fantastic tool for business, assuming you know how best to use it and you’ve decided what you’re going to use it for. It’s no good having a rough Twitter strategy and just randomly tweeting generic information about your company – you won’t get the referring traffic you’re looking for nor will [...]
Moma Propaganda, an ingenious advertising agency from Brazil, has come up with a series of incredible vintage adverts to demonstrate how social media could have been portrayed in the swinging sixties. The ad agency produced promotional posters for Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Skype as part of their ‘Everything Ages Fast’ campaign for client Maximidia Seminars.
Twitter celebrated is 20 billionth ‘tweet’ yesterday; yet another major milestone for the social networking site. The tweet was sent by a graphic designer in Tokyo at 3.44 GMT, who upon realising he had sent the landmark message had this to say in another tweet sent minutes later: It looks like I posted the 20 [...]
Social media’s commercial importance is being more and more recognised by big companies and small businesses alike; with a growing value being placed on an individual’s social network, techniques to leverage this value are becoming increasingly relevant. ‘Pay with a Tweet‘ is being classed as the first ‘social payment system’, allowing users to purchase a [...]