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BassDrummerEd believes that “limitation makes you be creative” Last week I was at the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle, BassDrummerEd was there showing us how he had pushed the limits of his drumming. His stuff was incredible. It made me think about two of my favourite social networks Twitter and Snapchat. Both have limits and […]
I’ve been away on my holidays in New York for the last week or so. I have just about been keeping up with the news and one topic that popped into my newsfeed was the possibility that Twitter would increase their character limit from 140 characters to 1000. [Tweet “Is the 140 character limit stopping […]
It’s been hinted at by Jack Dorsey, it has been anticipated, but I for one wouldn’t welcome tweets longer than 140 characters. I don’t have any children, but I’m beginning to think that Twitter is acting like a teenage son (or daughter). The network we enjoyed, nurtured, watched grow has suddenly started acting differently. It’s […]
When Twitter changed stars to hearts last month many users weren’t impressed. I wasn’t impressed. I liked Favourites, I used them to bookmark content and tweets, I used them to save testimonials. In reality, I’d been battling against a new way of using favourites for a while. They may have served a different purpose in […]
If you logged in to your blog this morning you probably noticed a massive drop in your share count. Suddenly your Twitter stats are reporting zero shares. It’s not a glitch, they aren’t coming back. Twitter have killed the ability to view how many times your web pages have been shared on their site. Why […]
Many businesses are lazy when they think about setting up social media contests. They resort to the obvious and set up a rule breaking Like & Share contest on Facebook. [Tweet “To run a successful contest you need to think beyond Facebook”] To run a successful contest you need to think beyond Facebook and if […]
