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Every Tweet Tells a Story
We can’t control the way people receive our messages, but we can carefully choose what messages we convey. We think about our Twitter and Facebook content within the framework of everything we say and do, but those on the receiving end don’t always see the whole. They might only see one of the trees in the forest, and judge the rest of the forest based on that one tree.
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Infographic: Oscar Night Hits and Misses on Social Media
On Oscar night, watching the stars coming down the Red Carpet is just as exciting as watching them win. But the hosts on E! aren’t the only ones passing judgment on the fashion — that’s what social media is for.
In this visualization of Oscar night chatter from Sysomos, you can see what social media users thought of the clothes and which brands went online to help them along.
The chart compares the following:
- Total Red Carpet Tweets
- America’s Favorite Look (according to social media)
- Best Dressed Female
- Best Dressed Male
- Worst Dressed Female
- Worst Dressed Male
- The Top 5 Socially Savvy Fashion Brands
- Top Red Carpet Hashtags
- Tweets by Gender
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Celebrities Do Read Your Tweets, Say Super Fans and Stars
[Millennial Panelists]
A panel of teenage super fans took the stage to talk about their obsession with One Direction, the Kardashians, and MTV’s “Awkward,” and share their encounters with the stars online.
The biggest takeaway was that fans can tell the difference between stars who manage their own accounts and those who hire someone else to do it for them. One Direction’s Liam Payne, for example, “can’t spell at all,” a panelist said, so fans are always suspicious of perfectly articulated tweets. If there’s a smiley face out of place, they’ll know.
["Mob Wife" Drita D’Avanzo and "Drag Race" contestant Ivy Winters]
“Even though we’ve never met,” Nicole said, “honestly, it’s like I know her.”
The stars don’t seem to mind the attention. When it comes to dealing with the public, “social media is the most important thing,” said Drita D’Avanzo from VH1’s “Mob Wives” in the next panel. She reads everything her fans send her and enjoys live-tweeting during her show.
Joining D’Avanzo were Nev Schulman from MTV’s “Catfish: The TV Show,” Cody Alan from CMT’s “Hot 20 Countdown” and “CMT Radio Live with Cody Alan,” Ivy Winters from Logo’s “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” and moderator Natan Edelsberg, who writes for our sibling blog, “Lost Remote.”
Winters wasn’t much of a social media user before she joined the fifth season of ”RuPaul’s Drag Race,” but after a little coaching, she now finds the one-on-one interaction with fans “inspiring.” Said Winters, “Go social media!”
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8 Twitter Best Practices
Of all the popular social media channels, I’d say that Twitter is probably the most intimidating. But once you learn its unique language of tweets, hashtags, and handles, Twitter opens up a world of opportunities to promote your cause or business.
Video: The Story Of 2012 Told Through Tweets
2012 has come to a close and YouTuber Jeremiah Warren has put together an awesome video that takes a look back at the biggest stories of the last year, as told through tweets!’
2012 Told Through Twitter – Year in Review’ begins with Happy New Year tweets from January 1, 2012 and makes its way through all of the year’s most defining moments, from SOPA and PIPA tweets to celebrity deaths, natural disasters, the 2012 Presidential Election, Facebook buying Instagram, Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ selling for $120 million, the Curiosity landing, war, the Mayans and more.
This 2012 video is a followup to Warren’s 2011 Twitter roundup video, which has racked up over 271,000 views in the last year.
Check out the video below and let us know which moments stood out for you in 2012. Did they make this roundup? What are you most looking forward to in 2013?
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Megan O’Neill is the resident web video expert here at Social Times. Megan covers everything from the latest viral videos to online video news and tips, and has a passion for bizarre, original and revolutionary content and ideas.
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Republican Convention Sets Social Media Bar for Democrats (Mashable)
The social media numbers for the Republican National Convention are in: more than 4 million tweets with a peak of 14,743 tweets per minute, 2.5 million-plus YouTube views and 300,000 hours of streaming video viewed in a three-day period with an average view time of more than 30 minutes. Given how ubiquitous social media has become since the last election in 2008, it’s not surprising that this year’s conventions are doing well online — but these numbers certainly set a high bar for the Democratic National Convention, beginning Tuesday in Charlotte, N.C. AP TV viewership for the Republican convention dropped sharply from 2008, suggesting interest in this presidential race falls short of some past contests. But the convention was a hit online and on social networks, the latest evidence of the political conversation’s gradual migration from traditional media to the Web. WSOC TV Visitors to the Democratic convention are starting to use a grassroots Twitter movement to get answers about the Queen City. Locals set up the hashtag #cltfaq to help people from out of town. National Journal The emergence of Twitter as a kind of first draft of campaign journalism appears to be the signal digital change for both political parties and candidates in 2012, according to a panel of social media experts assembled by National Journal and The Atlantic at the Democratic convention. “It’s a 140-character news cycle,” said Adam Sharp, who is in charge of government, news and social innovation at Twitter. The Daily Dot Of course, in the age of social media, there are plenty of places to get your political fix online. Here’s a rundown of where you should look to stay up-to-date on the Democratic National Convention happenings: YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram. continued…
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Thousands of YouTube Partners Now Make Six Figures a Year (GigaOM)
Thousands of YouTube partners are making over $100,000 a year, according to Google senior vice president and chief business officer Nikesh Arora. YouTube had previously put the number of six-figure earners in the hundreds. SocialTimes If you took a sledgehammer to YouTube or Vimeo, you’d have Ptch. Backed by DreamWorks Investments, the social media iPhone app lets you create short movies from video clips and photographs, add music and filters and share the entire process with friends. ars technica Four YouTube videos that had apparently been taken down earlier this week due to dubious copyright claims by the music publisher BMG Rights Management have once again become available to American audiences. The videos showed President Obama singing the opening line of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.” SocialTimes Now, when you upload footage to YouTube that requires anonymity, you can blur out all the faces in the video in one click. When it comes to cats and dogs, it works some of the time anyway. Politico The Romney campaign sent YouTube an appeal letter on Wednesday asserting the footage in the ad, titled “Political Payoffs And Middle Class Layoffs,” was fair use under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and not a copyright violation. YouTube executives agreed with Romney. continued…
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Facebook, CNN Team Up for U.S. Presidential Election Initiatives (Inside Facebook)
Facebook has partnered with CNN to offer apps and insights related to the 2012 U.S. presidential election, the social network announced Monday. Facebook and CNN will launch an “I’m Voting” application for users to commit to vote and endorse particular candidates and issues. San Francisco Chronicle The app will display votes on Facebook members’ timelines, news feeds and real-time tickers and then be used for a state-by-state interactive map. The two companies are also teaming up to measure the Facebook discussions of the campaigns of President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney and to survey voting-age U.S. residents. CNET While Facebook has long been used as a political tool — many noted how social media gave Obama an advantage when he ran in 2008 — and a way to promote one’s causes, but this takes an official stab at voting transparency. And Facebook is big on transparency. Adweek With ratings falling to a 21-year low in the second quarter of this year, CNN needs to make bold moves to draw viewers to its broadcasts, and it’s betting that Facebook is the answer. If the app catches on with users, CNN may be able to take the pulse of the electorate in useful, real-time ways. continued…
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Top Tweets about Euro Cup 2012
Let’s be honest: no matter how important this year’s Euro Cup is to us, it is hard to sneak away from the office to watch a game on a Monday afternoon at 2:30 pm. It’s just not an ideal time slot if you live in the states.
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Facebook Swapping Out Credits, Adding Subscription Billing (AllFacebook)
Facebook announced Tuesday that the company is doing away with Facebook Credits and transitioning to local currency. The social network also announced that it is accepting subscription billing for apps. Simply put, these moves make it easier for Facebook gamers to spend more by cutting out the Facebook Credits middleman. The New York Times The changes are designed to encourage companies well beyond game developers to sell their wares on the Facebook platform itself. It carries the additional benefit of potentially keeping Facebook users on the site longer and harnessing more data about what they buy. San Francisco Chronicle App developers will soon be able to charge subscription fees, Prashant Fuloria, Facebook product management director, announced in a company blog for developers. Subscriptions could become an easy, ongoing source of revenue. The Wall Street Journal Facebook is getting support from two big-name advertisers after tough questions over the effectiveness of its ads. On Tuesday, Ford and Coca-Cola separately said they found value in Facebook advertising, and Ford plans to expand its use of the social network in advertising. Reuters Facebook offered a rare peek on Tuesday at one facet of the elaborate system it uses to police its 900 million-user social network, as it attempts to keep it free of content it deems offensive, illegal or just plain inappropriate. A detailed, and somewhat confusing, chart published by Facebook on its website depicts how reports of various infractions are routed through the company and lays out all the potential outcomes, which can range from an account being disabled to Facebook alerting law enforcement. continued…
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