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Elfrieda Utley @lerahxg followed me today. She’s from Arkansas. If you don’t look at her Twitter profile too carefully, it looks pretty normal. She has 128 followers, she’s following 1,407 people and she has Tweeted 43 times. Her last Tweet: “I can remove 90% of your so-called beauty with a Kleenex” is stupid, but – Continue Reading →

  Re-syndicated from KellerFay.com Klout declares itself to be “the standard of influence,” and many marketers these days buy into the notion that when it comes to influence the action is mostly – or most importantly – taking place online. Social media influence is often called word of mouth on steroids. However, this belies the Continue Reading →

You can’t read tweets that are over a month old, unless you’re a marketer. Twitter partnered with market research company Datasift to sell access to tweets as far back as January 2010. Remember, there’s no such thing as a free online service. Read the full article at BBC.co.uk Continue Reading →

You know those annoying promoted tweets that show up at the top of your Twitter feed? These advertisements will begin showing up in your timeline on Twitter’s mobile website and app. Twitter has to find ways to make money and this is probably just the beginning of it. Read the full article at AllThingsD.com Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120229_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] Next week we can put the iPad 3 rumors to rest. Apple sent out its press invite for a March 7th event that will almost certainly show off the long-awaited device. What’s new with the iPad 3? Doesn’t matter—people will still show up in droves to buy Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats about Apple’s iPad 3 launch event, Bodog.com being seized by the fed and Twitter on Fox 5 News at 10. Continue Reading →

I joined Pinterest this week!  Yes, you can now follow me on the fast-growing, lady-centric, thing-collecting social network under the name JordoPC. That’s not why I’m writing this though.  I’m writing to ask a simple favor of websites and social networks: Can we please stop connecting everything to Facebook? After waiting twelve hours for my Continue Reading →

After uproar from privacy-concerned users, Apple now requires apps to explicitly tell you when it accesses your address book. Guess what? When an app like Twitter or Facebook asks if you’d like it to find your friends using your address book, that’s where it gets the contact information. It’s not magic. Read the full article Continue Reading →

[wpaudio url=”https://media.shellypalmer.com/wp-content/images/usrn/120216_SHELLYPALMER_GEN_BED.mp3″ text=”Click to play … ” dl=”0″] After uproar from privacy-concerned users, Apple now requires apps to explicitly tell you when it accesses your address book. Guess what? When an app like Twitter or Facebook asks if you’d like it to find your friends using your address book, that’s where it gets the contact Continue Reading →

The Super Bowl set a record for Tweets per second, but the game itself wasn’t what people were talking about. 75% of Super Bowl conversation on Twitter focused on the commercials and the halftime show. By contrast, 2% of tweets were about the Giant’s victory. Read the full article at ReadWriteWeb.com Continue Reading →