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After the Associated Press published an article on March 20th about employers asking job candidates for Facebook and social media passwords, the response was, to say the least, overwhelming. In the month since, there have been thousands of tweets and social media status updates, more than 2,000 blog posts, and hundreds of news articles on the "trend." Legislation was proposed in at least three states, and by April 9th, Maryland had hastily passed a bill. Even the federal government got involved, with Congressional committees planning hearings on the issue.Tech Sometimes, you may just want to listen to your music in peace, without being interrupted by passers-by or visually intrusive ads, technology and surrounding events. That’s…
Social Media News and Web Tips – Mashable – The Social Media Gui
It wasn't my idea or my choice, but a couple of days ago I was taken for dinner to a restaurant which refers to itself as a "Chinese and Western Food Restaurant". The industry has pretty much settled on the calculation for GC efficiency to be 1 - ( total GC pause time / application run time). It's a reasonable measure of how much CPU the parallel collectors are taking away from application (otherwise known
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The 20 Least ReTweetable Words | Dan Zarrella - Flock
I’ve looked at the 20 words and phrases that tend to get the most ReTweets, but what about the flip-side of that coin? What about the words that are least likely to get your ReTweets? I used my database of over 30 million ReTweets, and compared it to a sample of over 2 million random Tweets and found the common words that occurred far more often in non-ReTweets.
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I’ve often said that the best use of Twitter is as a broadcast medium . You should be creating a ton of interesting content and sharing it with your followers. To that end I’ve done a bunch of research on how to optimize the clickthrough rate (CTR) of the links you’re tweeting. For the purposes of this data, I’ve calculated CTR as the number of clicks on a tweeted link divided by the number of followers the account had when it tweeted that link. One of the most popular webinars I’ve ever worked on, The Science of Timing was also one of my favorite.Social Media Examiner, Your Guide to the Social Media Jungle - F
Does your business have a blog? They refuse to tell consumers the answers to the questions they most want answered. And it is because of this approach we so often hear the phrase, “Yeah, our company tried blogging, but it didn’t work for us.”
30 Best Blogs of 2009 - Flock
While compiling this list, I asked a few people a dumb question: What was the biggest online event of the year? Random answers included Oprah joining Twitter, Michael Jackson's death breaking on TMZ , and Susan Boyle coming and going. Someone even tried to argue that a writer who detailed his firing from The New Yorker on Twitter was momentous. Sigh . But frankly, I've got nothing better.