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Category: Social Media

‘While You Were Away’ On Twitter Spotted In The Wild

Oh Twitter, how do we love thee and your simplicity.  We love the messages that other Tweeters tweet and place unbashingly onto our Twitter News Feeds.  But what is this?  Is that change I smell coming? There is a new feature coming to Twitter that shows you tweets that happened “While you were away.”  This […]

New Twitter Ads Make It Seem Like People Follow Brands & Others, Even If They Don’t

It seems that Twitter is going through a little bit of a change, or at least and update of some sort.  If you take a look at your “Following” list on Twitter, you might discover some brands or people showing up there, despite that face you never followed them to begin with. The first to notice […]

Twitter And Facebook Launch Their 2014 “Year In Review” With Top Content, Trends & More

During this time of the year, over the past few weeks, I’ve been finding some interesting top ten lists for the Thrive blog.  This time, we found some more top ten lists of 2014 for you all to enjoy!  This time, we will take a look at the social media monsters, Facebook and Twitter, as […]

Are App Graphs The Next Big Thing In Search?

Twitter announced this week that it will track which mobile apps users download in order to improve its ad targeting capabilities. On that note, if you’re using the mobile version of Twitter, you’ll eventually be prompted with, “To help tailor your experience, Twitter uses the apps on your device.” You can go into your settings and opt […]

Twitter Finally Makes All Your Tweets Searchable

There’s some good news for all those who love Twitter and enjoy using it, but hate not being able to find a specific tweet out of the half trillion of individual tweets out there on the Twitterverse. Twitter announced today that it has indexed all public tweets, which will give users the ability to search […]

Though People Trust Other Consumers Most, Brands Still Have A Role To Play

Aside from the marketing efforts of businesses and brands, word of mouth is pretty important.  After all, that’s the point of good business products and services being marketing well.  Get the word out to a number of people, and then when they favor those products, they will spread the word to friends and family.  This […]

Like Facebook, Twitter Now Lets You Tweet From The Top Of Your Timeline

Twitter announced that it has moved its tweet box on the Twitter website to the top of timelines.  The company says that this should make it easier to tweet. It just got easier to Tweet on http://t.co/SlNTFacp9A. You can now compose new Tweets at the top of your home timeline. — Twitter (@twitter) November 5, […]

Is The Company Claiming Credit For #AlexFromTarget Really Behind It?

As I was hunting around on Google+ for something interesting, I can across a post about a teen from Kensington, UK who snapped a picture of an unknown good-looking kid who was working at a Target store which quickly took off as a trending sensation online. If you don’t already know, but the young fellow […]

The Role Content Plays In B2B Social Selling

When you’re working to get the word out about your B2B business, you need to find a way that you can do it as effectively as possible, all while keeping within your budgets.  Anybody who hasn’t lived under a rock and knows anything about the internet could tell you that you should be using social […]

Facebook Embraces Anonymity With The Launch Of New ‘Rooms’ iOS App

Oh the days gone by of chat rooms in the internet of old.  How fun it might be to go back in time and return to these old forms of internet communications.  But wait a moment.  Is it true that Facebook has announced the launch of a new iOS app that allows users to interact anonymously […]