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offering innovative ways to stay connected. Amongst the various new features, the sharing of location-based information made possible by “geotags”, quickly grew to become a trend across the three most popular social media applications: Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. To clarify, a geotag is a marker that determines latitude, longitude, sometimes altitude, distance and direction (i.e. GPS capabilities) of a person when the “Location” settings in his/her mobile phone has been activated. Geotags…

A single automated response to a Twitter follower along with favouriting a post can be an effective social media engagement, while 5 similar auto-responses in a row can give impression of alienating and thus turn out a positive social interaction unfortunately into a negative one! It is…

variety of recruitment and job search tools that have been designed for this mobile-friendly, popular network. Twitter is also not familiar a social site recruiters, therefore meaning Facebook and Linkedin have a clear advantage when it comes for job openings. Twitter however is a great site where recruiters tend to post a lot of statistic based tweets as well as information, allowing Twitter in that sense to deliver a real sense professional purpose compared to say on how some may use a…

In today’s socially connected day and age, companies are fighting for screen time among users. Unlike the auto industry where users buy either a Ford F-150 or a Chevy Silverado, people often use more than one social media service. The social media industry races for the most unique users and competes to capture an individual’s personal time. These free services make money based on how much time users spend on their platforms and ultimately how many times they click an advertisement, so appealing…

negativity. I tend to use only two social media sites consisting of Snapchat and Twitter where I post the cool things I’m doing or expressing my thoughts at the time to the people that follow me. The fact that colleges can reject…

media in their stories, such as Twitter, face backlash from their sources and readers if journalists do not properly respect the privacy of those who are being used in articles. The main issue that causes the problems for journalists when using online resources is that there is no set of ethical guidelines that all journalists refer to when writing articles that contain social media…

With 65.3 million estimated refugees the world is quietly experiencing the worst refugee crisis since World War II (T). The only exposure the world receives about this on-going crisis is in the form of a picture of the lifeless body of a refugee child who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean with his family; or a video that shows a young Syrian boy who sits in the back of ambulance covered in a thick, grey coat of dust and drenched in his own blood. Although these images resonate with the…

social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coordinate, and give voice to their concerns. When ten thousand protesters took to the streets in Moldova in the spring of 2009 to protest against their country’s Communist government, the action was dubbed the Twitter Revolution, because of the means by which the…

The three social media platform I chose to discuss are Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Facebook was created on February 4, 2004 by Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg. The site was originally called The Facebook, but was later changed just to Facebook. The site was designed for people to share information about themselves with their friends. At first it was only open to people who attended Harvard University. The idea became quite popular, and in September 2006, Facebook opened up membership to…

mentioned the BattleBus in the sample. Besides, the critiques of the Tory party such as “fracking, racism and corruption” were mentioned frequently on Twitter, with no appearance on mainstream media. On the contrary, the errors in dealing with the announcement about election expenses was reported in 10 news stories, while no such theme on Twitter. Especially, the expenses, which are directly linked to the alleged fraud, were only mentioned in 10 news articles (it may due to the fact that the…