LinkedIn is a social network for professionals, intellectuals and educated people. That is why its reputation is high. Today, the reputation of many people of LinkedIn can be at stake if they have a spammer or some profile in their network. Does the menace of fake profile exist on LinkedIn too? Yes! There are numerous fake profiles on LinkedIn as well. Their aim is to join the
read more...In our previous article of this series, we shared helpful tips to recognize fake profiles on Facebook. In the era of social media where the worth of a brand is determined on the basis of LIKES on Facebook or follows on Twitter, it is obvious that like Facebook, Twitter is also a hotbed for fake profiles. There are cheats who take money and get twitter fake followers
read more...As anything on social media goes viral, social networking websites need to introduce new features to impress users and stay viral (ahead of others) in competition. After Facebook introduced Hashtags, something that was keeping Twitter ahead of Facebook and preferable over Facebook over social media advertising and marketing, Twitter has once again capitalized on hashtags, something that made it popular. As noted by Livefyre’s Lead Social Strategist
read more...Fake Number Of YouTube Views Can Spell Trouble For You In our Faking The Fakes series, we explained how fakes like on Facebook and fake follows on Twitter can damage your ranking as well as reputation. We also explained that on LinkedIn, you can go through the headache of seeing spam links in your Inbox if you allow fake profiles to join your network. When the menace
read more...In the previous article of this series, we told you how to find out if a Facebook page was buying LIKES. We also explained how such fake LIKES destroy the credibility of the page. Security firm Barracuda Networks has explored the menace of fake profiles in a study titled “Facebook: Fake Profiles vs. Real Users.” What did the study say about fake profiles on Facebook? The study
read more...In our previous blog post, we explained the concept of Twitter Lead Generation Card and the procedure to create it as well as use it. Now, as we promised, we are back again, this time, with an easy procedure of using Lead Generation Card from Twitter with MailChimp. Using Lead Generation Card will MailChimp is really easy. To connect to your Lead Generation Card to your MailChimp
read more...Stumbling nowadays is a daily part of bloggers’ life. Stumbleupon as a bookmarking site to increase the traffic has been strongly evolved in the last few years. To have a multiplier effect of results, marketers also use the ‘StumbleUpon paid discovery’. What is Paid Discovery? Paid Discovery is StumbleUpon’s advertising system. StumbleUpon’s platform lets users surf the web by Stumbling to sites that match their interests, simply
read more...Instagram Video With the popularity of websites like YouTube and Dailymotion, posting and sharing videos on social media has become a fashion. Two hot apps for posting are Instagram with Facebook and Vine with Twitter. Recently, Vine introduced the feature of sharing videos and that has now prompted Instagram to follow the suit. Facebook acquired Instagram for $1billion in April 2012. According to Instagram, it has 100
read more...Among social media, Facebook is one of the greatest platforms on cyberspace. Anything on Facebook grabs a lot of eyeballs. People highlight serious issues on Facebook to draw the attention of people. Politicians in uncivilized countries try to ban Facebook which is a tool for social activists there that can be used to expose corruption. Thus, it is obvious that Facebook would be targeted by unscrupulous people
read more...WHAT ARE HASHTAGS? Hashtags are keywords that contain (“#”) symbol at the start. The terminology Hashtags are basically associated with twitter but its applications are not only limited to Twitter. The social media websites like Pinterest, Instagram, Google+ and LinkedIn also has its presence. The best way to recognize Hashtags is simply looked at the start of the keywords, for example, #Parisfashionweek and #fashionweek. WHY HASHTAGS ARE
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