The video sharing application Vine has recently been released for Android, and as a result, it seems that it quickly has overtaken Instagram in total shares per day on the network Twitter. Vine is owned by Twitter, which would certainly help. Also, it should be noted that Instagram has recently remained stagnant in it’s growth…

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A Social Media campaign was recently run by a group of high school students to raise awareness for organisation Minddrive, with outstanding results. Minddrive is a non-profit which focuses on teaching maths and science to at-risk children, and these students decided to demonstrate to people how powerful social media interactions could be in creating change, as something physical….

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Television isn’t going anywhere very soon – But it is growing weaker. As more and more people turn to websites like YouTube and Netflix in order to watch and stream what they want, conventional television seems to be getting a bit of a hit, particularly with the younger and more influential audience. Few people are…

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On the day of the Vine release for Android, a to-be intern for read-it-later service Pocket, Will Smidlein, manipulated the code for his vine post in order to include a rickroll for his friends. He managed to bypass the 6-second rule for the short-video service for a laugh; he didn’t expect the rickroll to go…

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A group in Cambridge university is actually using Twitter to determine how the language of Welsh has been evolving over time. There are enough tweets in Welsh on the social media that it has been entirely possible for the researchers to start cataloguing data about the syntax and use of the language and compare it…

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Facebook now has introduced a verification system very similarly to how Twitter works. Certain public profiles will get a blue button beside the name in order to signify that it’s the person that it says that it is. The verification will only be given to those accounts with a large number of followers and who…

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Twitter has recently announced that it will be working with brands in order to fully utilise the power of social media and the second screen.  The new targeting features can focus on those who have typed in specific tags in relation to the TV programmes during which the company airs their commercial advertisement. Hashtags in relation to the…

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Young driver, Emma Way, in Norwich England on Sunday the 19th of May, posted on Twitter brashly. The tweet said that she had hit a cyclist on the road, and that she had the ‘right of way’ in the situation. The Twitter account has since been deleted. The Norwich police of course had this message…

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Recently the creator of the GIF, the popular shareable clips that are absolutely all over the internet, again repeated that it is pronounced ‘Jif, not Gif‘. Immediately, people started making jokes about the peanut butter brand ‘Jif‘. Internet debates, as always, were rampant with the topic. However, in an act of clever opportunistic marketing, Jif…

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This last week a massive Tornado roughly two miles in diameter went through Moore, Oklahoma near Oklahoma City. Many people lost their homes, belongings, and, for some, their lives. Reportedly at least 51 people died, including a large number of children that were trapped beneath their school. Networks like Twitter and Vine reported the breaking…

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