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I assume everyone else on twitter gets new followers with bizarre bios, here are a few of the most recent indecipherable, unitelligible, pointless, lame and downright hilarious personal statements and my first thoughts about those followers. Twitter twits image from Shutterstock “A current person I?????§ known by his appearance” – I was always told not [...]Related Posts:Good, bad, ugly twitter biosThe most useful twitter app…The Twit CleanerThe horrors of blocking and […]

There are four words that differentiate Pinterest from Twitter, according to DT: Use, look, want, and need. Those four verbs make Pinterest stand out because they highlight how so much of the network’s appeal is grounded in the idea of acquiring stuff. Pinterest users talk about possessing and observing things whereas a textual analysis of [...]Related Posts:Pinterest – pinvite only for nowInterest in “no pin” for PinterestPinterest TOSFind your bliss on social mediaTake […]

A rather offensive update appeared on my Facebook page yesterday, it was a repost link to a SoundCloud file from a hiphop act whose banter was laced with expletives from the opening bars. It announced to the world just how bad I’d got. I was down with the ‘hood, yo, bro etc…except, I wasn’t, I’m [...]Related Posts:How to embed a SoundCloud clip in a blog postStop The SmithsIf This Then That – IFTTTSounding out SoundCloudIFTTT recipes for SkydrivePost from: […]

Researchers at Google are hoping to learn about social influence and how message propagate on Twitter. Google software engineer Shaozhi Ye and colleague Felix Wu of the University of California, Davis, point out that while there have been extensive studies of the top online social networks (OSNs) it remains unclear how to characterise the propagation [...]Related Posts:Measuring influence and finding influencersMedia, marketing, mutualityDo you ‘like’ Facebook? Really?Does it matter […]