Have We Lost the Ability to Be Quiet? 3AW Radio Segment

Posted by admin on Jan 2, 2012 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media News | 6,143 comments

This post appeared originally over at TracyWhitelaw.com, our CEO’s blog. Thought it was worth sharing here also. Social media speaker segment on 3AW radio Today I chatted with the lovely Peter Maher on 3AW Melbourne radio in his Drive with Peter Maher show (hoping to put the audio up soon). The topic was whether increasing computer/mobile phone/social...

A minute in the life of the London Riots hashtag (#londonriots)

Posted by admin on Aug 9, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media News | 4,371 comments

Social media and the London Riots – #londonriots hashtag monitoring Here at Social Ignition HQ, we are watching in shock and disgust at some of the images and news coming out of the UK in relation to the London riots. As any good social media user would do, we’ve been following the flow of information on Twitter using Tweetdeck and it is almost...

TweetForger lets you fake tweets

Posted by admin on Apr 2, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News | 5,590 comments

It was April Fools’ Day yesterday and our CEO Tracy found a rather snazzy joke device in the form of TweetForger. Tracy made a few fake TweetForger tweets over at her site to show what you can do with this site and it’s pretty funny. If you want to dupe someone though, they really need to have some severe eyesight issues, given it states clearly the...

Apple launches @AppStore Twitter account for iOS and Mac App Store

Posted by admin on Jan 24, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News | 4,095 comments

Heads up Apple fans, if you’re on Twitter you might want to add @AppStore to your follows. This is the official Twitter account for the Apple App Store. It will no doubt feature things Apple want highlighted in the App Store, probably specials, new release information and that sort of thing. If you’re on Twitter and you’re a fan of the App...

Facebook Shutting Down – What Will You Do?

Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2011 in Our Blog, Social Media News | 4,292 comments

Bye Bye Facebook, Hello… What? Over the last few days, the internet has been rife with rumors that Facebook was going to shut up shop and disappear into the ether. Of course, it’s all complete rubbish and Facebook have come out themselves and said so, but it poses an interesting question: If Facebook shuts down, what will you do? Now, some of you...

Facebook profiles now for all, like it or not

Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2011 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News | 4,609 comments

We’ve already been using the new Facebook profiles, but as of today all Facebook user accounts have been updated to the new revamped versions. As far as revamps go, this update is far more additions, than an overall revamp of the entire system. There’s a new photo stream along the front for tagged images, some people have used these in creative...

Next year you’ll be able to buy FarmVille for Dummies

Posted by admin on Dec 16, 2010 in All Blog Posts, Social Media News | 4,932 comments

Heads up “FarmVille” fans, there’s a new book coming your way early next year that is going to talk you through the game with many a hint and tip. This is essentially a cash-in beginners guide to the popular Facebook game. The book will allegedly help you start your own farm and make its crop production great. There will be tips showing you how...

Best Tweets During the Government Announcement

Posted by admin on Sep 7, 2010 in All Blog Posts, Our Blog, Social Media News |