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3 Social Media Mistakes We Can Learn from the Concert that Never Was
This post originally appeared on MarchPR.com. I recently tried to go to a concert here in Boston. I won’t name the venue or the bands, even the most popular of which is pretty much unknown. The show was on a Monday night. My mission was to see one band in particular, but I didn’t know…
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How a Self-Published Author Got 1,213 Followers on Twitter
Twitter. You’ve probably heard of it. People call it a “micro-blogging service,” whatever that means. If not, they’ll casually lambast it as something that adolescents use to inform friends of their latest Teenage Adventures. Twitter is more than that. In fact, it’s one of the handiest tools to promote your blog, your book, your band,…
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Getting Arrested for a Tweet: The Age of the Post-Anonymous Internet
Can saying terrible things on the internet land you in jail? Thanks to social media, it looks like the answer is creeping closer to “yes.” In March, a 21-year-old who drunkenly tweeted racist remarks was charged with “inciting racial hatred” in the United Kingdom. He was sent to prison for 56 days. Two British boys,…
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Help, My Mom Has More Twitter Followers Than Me!
I’m 23. I’ve used Twitter since September. Coincidentally, my mom started a Twitter account around the same time. Take a gander at the two accounts, if you will. My mom has 194 followers at the time of this writing. I have a measley 82. My mom has more Twitter followers than me. Me! A tech-savvy millennial who works for…
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No One Cares About Your Company’s Tweets
~Reading Time: 5 minutes I know you’ve heard the hype. Teenagers are Tweeting each other from their phones. Scratch that. Everyone is Tweeting from their phones, because they all have fancy new smartphones (kinda). Companies are in a panic to follow suit, creating accounts and begging people to follow them. I think it’s time that someone pointed…
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