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Twitter-Initiated Food Stamp Challenge Is Happening Next Week

Mary C. Long — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:00:32 +0000

Think you could live off of food stamps for a week? Think anybody should? (Take that however you want.)

Regardless of how you approach the program, whether for it or against it, most people would agree that the amount folks get on food stamps is too low to live on each month.

And in case you didn’t know that $133 month for food was likely insufficient to live on, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker plans to get a TON of PR for himself by driving home this fairly obvious fact.

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Real Birds Tweet From Food-Covered Keyboard

Mary C. Long — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:00:44 +0000

Twitter is for the birds some days, isn’t it?

One magazine in Latvia thinks it’s ‘for the birds’ every day. They feel the lack of real birds on Twitter is a bird injustice actually – and they’re correcting it, one weird bird-pecked tweet at a time.

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Speak2Tweet Helping Syrians Stay Connected During Crisis

Mary C. Long — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:55:25 +0000

Just when you think Twitter is turning evil, something happens to remind you that the microblogging platform really isn’t so bad at the heart of it.

Twitter and the Google Monster joined forces last year during the riots in Egypt and developed a speak-to-tweet service. And that service is coming in handy this year for Syrians facing an Internet blackout.

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Social Media Jobs: C-SPAN, OneMinuteNews, Three Across

Nadine Cheung — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0000

This week, C-SPAN is hiring two local content vehicle VJs, as well as a local content vehicle community relations rep. Meanwhile, OneMinuteNews needs a director of audience development, and Three Across is on the hunt for a managing director. Get the scoop on these openings and more below, and find additional social media jobs on Mediabistro.

Local Content Vehicle VJs C-SPAN (Washington, DC)
Local Content Vehicle Community Relations Rep C-SPAN (Washington, DC)
Director of Audience Development OneMinuteNews (Greenville, SC)
Managing Director Three Across (Norwalk, CT)
Social Media/Web Strategist Fletcher Allen Health Care (Burlington, VT)

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Awesome Twitter Giveaways: Sports Tickets, iPads, Cars And More

Allison Stadd — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:00:27 +0000

Twitter contests and tweetaways are more popular than ever before, with brands and bloggers auctioning off everything from tickets to hotel stays to their Twitter followers.

We’ve written before about some of the most extreme Twitter giveaways: back in June, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave away a house to his three millionth Twitter follower, and in April William Shatner treated his millionth follower to dinner in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Twitter Spoils The Hobbit Movie Review Embargo

Allison Stadd — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 10:00:49 +0000

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the first in Peter Jackson’s brand new Hobbit trilogy that’s a prequel to the extremely popular Lord of the Rings series, premiered in New Zealand yesterday night.

The movie stars fan favorites Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom.

And people are pumped about it.

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What Do CEOs Think Of Social Media? [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:00:32 +0000

Did you know that 16 percent of CEOs say that they use social media as the top way that they engage customers?

But this is just the very tip of the iceberg – CEOs expect their use of social media to more than triple in the next five years, rising to 57 percent of all chief execs.

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Social, Mobile, Tablets – Holiday Trends That Smart Marketers Can’t Ignore [INFOGRAPHIC]

Shea Bennett — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 06:00:07 +0000

Did you know that more than four in ten (42 percent) of U.S. retailers started their 2012 Christmas advertising in October?

Indeed, more than 30 percent began promoting their Thanksgiving Black Friday deals earlier this year than in 2011, and their plan seems to have worked – more consumers started their holiday shopping prior to November than ever before.

So what’s changed? Shoppers are now doing a huge amount of their holiday buying online, using their smartphones, tablets and social media to find the best deals.

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Latest Twitter Scam Directs You To Video Showing Obama Punch Someone In The Face

Mary C. Long — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:00:47 +0000

First off: No, you will not see a video of President Obama punching someone in the face here – or anywhere for that matter.

That’s the point of this post. The latest attempt to compromise your Twitter account tells you that you will see this Obama video after clicking the attached link, but you won’t. You will have your Twitter account hijacked AND your personal information stolen from your computer though!

So spread the word, because once folks click the link and travel to the official-looking pages that follow, they’ll fall for this hoax. And guess what? You probably would too!

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Britney Spears’ Dog Joins Twitter

Allison Stadd — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 18:00:34 +0000

Here’s one for the “ridiculous” category: Britney Spears just got a new dog… and a Twitter account for it.

She adopted a pupppy, Hannah, then tweeted, “I want you all to meet my new little baby girl @hannahspears.”

Meet her for yourself via her Twitter account, which has the tagline “I’m Britney’s B***h.”

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Next Week’s Must-Attend Event for Social Media and Marketing Professionals

Mary C. Long — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:55:58 +0000

Did you know the AllFacebook Marketing Conference is next Tuesday and Wednesday?

There’s still time to register and you’ll be kicking yourself if you don’t. The insight you’ll gain and contacts you’ll make while attending this event are well worth the price of admission.

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Third Party Developer Fights Back; Wins Restraining Order Against Twitter

Mary C. Long — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:55:11 +0000

You knew it was coming – you knew someone big was going to get ticked at Twitter’s new API restrictions and take action, but did you ever expect it would take the form of a restraining order? Or that the developer would, at least temporarily, win?

PeopleBrowsr’s court action against Twitter today may seem suicidal (because it kind of is), but is that a bell tolling in the distance? Not for PeopleBrowsr or third party developers though – for Twitter.

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45% Of People Have Used Twitter For Flirting (And It’s Almost Always By Direct Message) [STUDY]

Shea Bennett — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:00:36 +0000

A new survey has revealed that almost half (45 percent) of Twitter users have used the micro-blogging social network to date and flirt with other members, and one-in-three confessed to having sent “sexy” tweets.

Direct messages were cited as the most common way of flirting, with 83 percent of those who engaged in such behaviour on Twitter having done so via a suggestive private message.

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Social Media Startup LeadSift Raises $500,000 To Help Businesses Use Twitter Data

Allison Stadd — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:00:53 +0000

Remember how we shared what a bust Twitter was for businesses’ Black Friday sales?

Canada-based startup LeadSift wants to be able to combat those low figures by finding people who are tweeting about products or services, and connecting them to businesses that want to market to them.

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Win a Free 3-Job Posting Package in our Twitter Contest

Guest — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 10:00:53 +0000

Here at Mediabistro, we talk to employers and job seekers everyday and have heard that the interview process can be daunting for both parties. Sometimes it’s hard to ask the right questions during an interview and there’s always one that leaves a candidate scratching his or her head. So, employers, we want to know: What interview question stumps your candidates every time?

Enter our contest for the chance to win a free 3-job posting package on the Mediabistro job board (worth $717!). All you have to do is follow @Mediabistro and tweet us your answer in 140 characters or less.

Include #InterviewQ and you’re in! The winner with the answer that stumps us the most will be announced on Friday, November 30 at 12:15 pm ET via our @Mediabistro Twitter account. Good luck!

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