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

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...

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Social Ignition’s How to Use Twitter Guide

Social Ignition’s How to Use Twitter Guide

New to Twitter? – Start Here with the Basics Most people starting out using Twitter have the same concerns and questions. This quick Twitter basics guide should come in handy, so that people can read and learn as they go. This Twitter how-to-guide, has all the basic information about Twitter and contains plenty of ways to get started. If you read the...

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TweetForger lets you fake tweets

TweetForger lets you fake tweets

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...

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Don’t bad mouth people on Facebook and Twitter hints and tips

Don’t bad mouth people on Facebook and Twitter hints and tips

Over the last few weeks there seems to have been a slew of lawsuits filed in the U.S. against Facebook and Twitter users who have essentially bad-mouthed others on the social networks. Now we’re not saying you can’t say anything negative on Twitter or Facebook, lord knows PLENTY of people do, we’re talking personally attacking someone. Over the...

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

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

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...

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