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Social Media Case Study: Twitter Games

Twitter games are the latest and greatest when it comes to marketing on Twitter. Users are drawn in because of the entertainment value they wish to get from it…

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#FollowFriday ‘Followfest’ on Twitter

A new trend is gaining speed big time on twitter recently, known as “FollowFriday”.  If you are an active Twitter user it is likely that you have seen the seemingly nonsensical posts similar to this “#followfriday – @johnmarlow, @fairmontchicago, @mavenMKTG, etc, etc”.  Basically just the words “followfriday” followed by a bunch of usernames.
What does this [...]

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What Are #Hashtags in Twitter? How To Use Them?

Hashtags are used in Twitter to put a label on a topic of conversation that you want other to be able to find using the find feature.  This allows for easy promotion and easy access to that information.
No formal registry is required.  Just pick a hashtag (hopefully not already in use) and include it in [...]