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Tinder Acquires Tappy For $10 Million

  You may well be familiar with Tinder, even if you don’t publicly admit it. It’s the social matchmaking mobile app that allows its users to set a specific radius and have the option to match with anybody within that distance. Tappy on the other hand, you may not have

Social Media Features You need to Stop Neglecting

  Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.” He wasn’t talking about the world of social media, but he could have been. It’s easy to neglect the most important features of social media platform;
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Top Five Reasons to Love Top Five Articles

  There are an abundance of lists on the internet. Thanks to the likes of Buzzfeed and Mashable with a simple Google search can find a list for pretty much anything. And it’s normally only when we reach number 3 on “This year’s 5 hottest summer insoles” that we begin to wonder why.. People
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8 Social Media Books To Add To Your Winter Reading List

  It’s that time of year again, isn’t it? Christmas songs are beginning to emanate from the car radio on the drive in to work and we’re already knee deep in the annual avalanche of seasonal advertising… Instead of identifying those all-important ingredients of what makes the most heart-warming, tear

3 Cringeworthy Social Media Fails

  Not all social media campaigns are a success. On the contrary, you don’t have to look far before you see examples of businesses that have managed to fail astronomically. The old adage may be that all PR is good PR – but we can’t help but feel sometimes that

10 Notable Social Media Developments

Social media is now such an intrinsic part of our daily lives, it’s sometimes hard to imagine a time before its existence. So for all of our younger followers out there, as well as those who are a little long in the tooth, here’s 10 (of many) events that have

Are Tesco Damaging Their Reputation with Social Media Sarcasm?

  wTesco have their fair share of followers online, particularly on Twitter – their ‘Tesco Mobile’ account currently has over 73 thousand followers alone. The supermarket giant have a great deal of customers tweeting to them with queries, ranging from requests for assistance with certain products, store locations or some

5 Innovative Twitter Campaigns

Businesses and organisations who succeed on Twitter are always the ones who are innovative with their campaigns. Here are some of the top Twitter campaigns that have caught our eyes over the past few years… 1. #40Dollars December 2011, and February 2012, were months when social media was used for

How Does Social Media Exploit Celebrities?

Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, are just some of the most popular social networking sites – and also some of those preferred platforms for voicing your opinions on celebrities… The King and legend of using YouTube to voice his opinions is Michael Buckley, host and creator of popular channel “What The Buck”.

Are Smartphones Controlling Our Shopping?

  Can you remember the days when you actually visited the high-street? We remember those days like they were only yesterday – but something has changed and it isn’t just the towns. It is our attitudes and behaviours towards shopping. Shopping online offers convenience and ease. Not only can we