The Most Social Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns Safely to Earth after One-Year Mission. Scott Kelly landed in Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m. EST (10:26 a.m. March 2, 2016 Kazakhstan time), on a capsule carrying two other companions from the International Space Station: Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, who also spent 340 days in space, and Sergey Volkov, another Russian cosmonaut who has been in space for five and a half months. During this time, Kelly has shared with the public an unprecedented view of what he’s seen while rotating Earth aboard the International Space Station. Before Kelly went up for his mission, the astronaut was given direct order from President Barack Obama during the 2015 State of the Union address: “Make sure to Instagram it.” The result of that order? Kelly soon became an expert social-media user, uploading awesome images of high quality photography nearly every day to Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. The astronaut...
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Growing an audience and retaining customers for any app or website can be very challenging. To keep your users engaged, you need rich and unique content that tells a compelling story. Whether it’s breaking news, first-person perspectives of major events, or play-by-play reactions to sports, the best stories start with Tweets. With hundreds of millions of new Tweets every day, there are lots of potential stories to tell. Today at Flight, we introduced an ecosystem of tools that all work together to help you seamlessly find, organize, and publish those stories on your apps and websites. You’ve already seen this ecosystem in action: we use it to publish Moments on Twitter. And you may already be using some of the individual tools we’re talking about, such as TweetDeck and Curator. Today we announced a new Collections API that turns multiple Tweets into a single story with a single Collection ID,...
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Social media has changed the lives of people around the world. Lets just stop for a moment and look at how different it is from ten or even five years ago. In the last decade, social media has significantly transformed most of our daily lives. Remember using a telephone landline instead of Skype, address book instead of Facebook, business card holder instead of LinkedIn? Social media has changed not only how we interact with one another but also how we do business. Not integrating social media into company’s traditional marketing activities nowadays is like starting a business without telling anyone. Surprisingly, there are still organizations who are not taking full advantage of what social media marketing can do for their brand. Sometimes the social media team is soloed, outsourced, or even non-existent. But the only way to fully harness the power of social media marketing is to put it on...
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Hashtags are a prominent part of Social Media Network today. Hashtag: A word or phrase preceded by a hash mark (#), used within a message to identify a keyword or topic of interest and facilitate a search for it. In fact, the hashtag is so recognized that it was added to the Oxford dictionary in 2010, and the Scrabble Dictionary earlier this year. Hashtags are used to a certain extend on most popular social networks, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Vine and Google+. The hashtag is likely the most popular means of categorizing content on social media. It makes your own content discoverable and allows you to find relevant content from other people and businesses. The hashtag also allows you to connect with and engage other social media users based on a common theme or interest. So whenever you add a hashtag to your post, it is immediately indexed by...
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Now, you have done a good job – Social Media Accounts are created, beautiful photos are taken and engaging articles are posted. But who will enjoy it all? Where are your followers? When you have more engagement, you get more exposure, which in turn, gives you the opportunity to get more followers. Let’s get into it. Here are the 7 best tips to get more followers on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or any other Social Media Channel. 1. Share Images People Can Connect & Relate To If you check out the most popular Social Media accounts, you’ll notice a common theme. All of their photos are something we all can relate to and connect with. They’re personal, unique, and original. By sharing these types of photos you’re establishing a connection with your audience, which is the absolute best way to attract people to your account. In short, make sure your account is authentic and...
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In the digital age, the signatures are slowly dying out. Celebrities may spend hours signing photographs and merchandise, but the majority of us only sign the occasional contract or document. However, some people still appreciate signatures. According to handwriting analysts, they can reveal a lot about your personality – for example, a clearly legible signature suggests the author is straightforward and open. MyPrint247 analysed the signatures of 25 of the world’s top tech CEOs and personalities, with the help of graphology (handwriting analysis). The list includes Tim Cook, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and more. Check them out in this infographic below!
Sometime I get questions when to use a # hashtag on social media versus the @? Well, they are very different things. You use the @ when you’re looking to tag a person or an account in your post on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter. A #hashtag is for keywords, topics or to follow a conversation. When you tweet “Great presentation by @D2Digital” you are contacting D2D Digital Online Marketing Agency and telling them they had a great presentation while at the same time making your review available for anyone to see who searches for D2D Digital on Twitter. Nethertheless, if you tweet “@D2Digital – your presentation was great” you are sending a direct message only D2D Digital Online Marketing Agency and you can see. I’m not sure whose followers can see it as well. If you tweet “Great #webinar by @D2Digital ” anyone who is searching for webinars D2D Digital Online...
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