Why to hate twitter

Most major companies are looking towards social media for gathering potential customers. But there is one exception, Apple, the iconoclast it has always been, has refused to create a twitter account.  According to a mashable report as of September 2009, about 76% of Fortune 500 companies had tweeted less than 500 times. Also, half of the fortune 100 companies had followers less than...

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What is Google Helpout? (Helpouts Explained)

The greatly rumored and one of the most secret projects of Google is right here. Google Helpouts! A video chat based service that is offered by the users for the users. For what you ask? To help them solve problems and learn new things. Many services are fee and some services are paid, the choice depends on you.  You can either start a helpout page or view another’s.  Interest...

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How do you report a person on Twitter

Following the footsteps of facebook, pinterest and google+, Twitter too has started its new service known as report abuse. Though the feature of report abuse had already been started in the iOS app, twitter has now officially started the service on the desktop version.  The move was made by the micro-blogging site after it witnessed a surge of users demanding the option. This came after...

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LinkedIn and its 10 year Story

Believe it or not, LinkedIn just turned ten years old on May 5th, i.e. on Sunday. The networking Giant started in 2003 with an aim of connecting professionals all over the world. Let us have a peek at the insides of this two letter word. The marketing approach for LinkedIn which includes finding a niche group of consumers and feed off them, is presumably working quite well...

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Image sizes/dimensions for Facebook Pages

It is not uncommon to see Facebook page owners bang their head on keyboards after spending hours of productive time just to keep resizing their images so that they fit perfectly on the Facebook page. Webmasters and social media experts know that these are the things which a Facebook page owner must know to prevent embarrassments. So here are the different image sizes to be used on a Facebook...

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Add Google+ friends and pages to a blogger post

Here's a way of including a person or a page with Google+ account to your blogger posts. The one thing most blogger's look for is experimentation. It is through experimentation when you find out useful little tricks which help you as well as the others to blog faster and easier. Here's the way; When you write a post in the blogger dashboard and you come accross a situation when...

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Invite friends to your facebook page in 2 steps

The fact that you have your own facebook page to promote your interest is good, but how to make sure, that all your friends know about it ? You must take advantage of facebook's inbuilt button to invite your friends to visit your page and like it. Here is a 2 step process to do so. Step 1 : Find out the facebook page, for which you need to invite your friends.  Step 2 : Find out the invite...

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Get your computer scanned for facebook related viruses

Certain times when web developers get desperate to inform people about their facebook pages or try to popularize them on dark platforms, they (even the professionals) may fall for the traps laid down by misdoers in the form of malwares and viruses.  Now what should you do, if you notice some suspicious activity going on in your facebook account. Though the what to do part is explained by facebook...

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How to remove your facebook account?

There are tough times when one has to delete his or her facebook account. When times are dark and choices are slim. So if you have made up your mind to delete your facebook account, here is a simple 3 step process. Step I : Go to your account settings Step II : Now to Download a copy of your facebook data, You need to click on the link at the bottom, Facebook too recommends this to avoid problems...

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Increase your Social media Efficiency through Pinterest

Every one having an online presense tries their hand at social media networking too. But how to do it more effectively? Pinterest one of the few top social networking websites, which uses the same old highly specialized marketing techniques like the others. Twitter had, since its inception, been interested only in the text form of social networking. YouTube (which can narrowly been described...

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How to post at pinterest

Pinterest by cold brew labs is a content sharing service which allows members to "pin" or post videos, text, images and other objects to their pinboard (or wall as per facebook).  Just like any other social networking service, using pinterest also needs some practice.You can even share your website or blog at pinterest Posting or pinning on pinterest is not tricky or difficult at all. Let...

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Embed your social posts, Separately

Social Ditto, just as the name suggests, basically copies your post hosted on a social networking site and provides you the ability top host it anywhere you like, even in a blogger post. The application allows its user to select a post, and get an embed code for the particular post, giving them mobility.  The website also provides the developers, a preview of what would the post look like...

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