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How to Use Twitter for Business

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How to Use Twitter for Business

If you are one of the many individuals who have been impressed with the use of social media for promoting business, then you must seriously consider using Twitter for business purposes. It is one of the most widely used social networking sites worldwide. The users of this site send messages that are called “tweets”, which are displayed on the profile of the author. These messages engage a group of people who are called “followers”. In turn, you have the option to follow the individuals that you like or admire.

Twitter makes a lot of business sense for the corporate as it has got more than 25 million active users, majority of them being in the group 16-45. People from various parts of the planet use this as a way to communicate and make new friends. One thing that is common between them is the desire for more followers. Following are the some simple tips that will help you to get more followers.

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How To Increase Sales Productivity With Pinterest

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Just as many business today have discovered, social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook can be extremely effective in generating excellent product placement opportunity without having to spend a fortune. Creating a vast network of followers within your target market across social network can be an amazing asset to increase sales.

The Future of Social Media Hacking; How Far Will It Go?

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The Future of Social Media Hacking; How Far Will It Go?

You might think that social media hacking is when someone posts an embarrassing status update on your Facebook or Twitter, but as the popularity of social media grows exponentially, so too does the criminal activity associated with it. Although you don’t include any financial information on social media networks, the large amount of personal information you place on there means that identity theft is on the rise.

The most basic level of hacking usually sets out to embarrass, defame or cause mistrust about a person or business. As mentioned above it involves hacking into a person or company’s account and posting a fraudulent status update or tweet. A recent example of this was when the Twitter profile of the Associated Press was hacked and a statement appeared which said the White House had been bombed and President Obama was inured.

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How to Stay Safe With Social Networks

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If you own a business – online or offline – or just enjoy creating a website or blog, then chances are you will inevitably be involved in one or more social networks. Social networks have taken off tremendously in the past 8 years or so, and it seems most people seem to have used social network in one form or another. Today, networks such as Facebook and Twitter, have become an important part of reporting events and daily lives more than any form of news.

Increase Sales Through Building High-Quality Online Relationships

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Increase Sales Through Relationships

When you are starting to promote a business online, you begin to wonder how exactly to get to those targeted users and make them your followers – because these are the best prospects you can get – the crowd that is really interested/ in need of your products and services.

Being honest, this is the sole final purpose of getting targeted followers: to increase sales. However, most of these entrepreneurs and marketers may be often missing a most important point.

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Text Messaging Habits We All Hate [Infographic]

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Text Messaging Habits We All Hate [Infographic]

Technology has given the world a lot of benefits. With a new and open forum, communicating with one another has never been so much easier. We can call, chat, and send SMS messages to each other all within a hand’s grasp of our smartphone. For texting, one doesn’t even need a smartphone. A mobile phone is more than enough to send out a text message.

All you need is a halfway decent texting plan with your service provider and you could be on your way to chatting away with anyone who too has a phone. And stats already say that texting is the fastest growing mode of communication when it comes to popularity, and has already surpassed phone calls. Millions of people text on a daily basis and billions of texts are sent out to users across the globe.

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3 Tips to Become an Instagram Sensation

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You’ve probably been living under a rock if you still haven’t heard of Instagram , an app catered to iPhones and smartphones that basically involves taking photos, putting in a few filters, and then publishing that photo for all your contacts too see. Although a relatively simple concept, Instagram has proved to be wildly successful that in 2012, Facebook even took notice and decided to purchase the app for 1 billion dollars!

Instagram is relevant, it is cool, and hip, and in many ways, it is rivaling Facebook. It is a great way to promote businesses, launch careers and so on and so forth. However, as with blogging, not everyone is destined to become a great Instagram star. There are certain accounts that turn out to be more successful than others because they have a certain technique as to how they run their accounts.

If you want to learn some tricks of the trade on how to become an Instagram star, then you’ve come to the right place.

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Facebook Screams to Zero-Day Java Exploit: Is Your Account Compromised?

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Facebook recently discovered a zero-day java attack roaming the internet which it happened to be one of the targets. According to Facebook officials, this attack was discovered on victimized computers belonging to Facebook engineers. The zero-day java attack was designed to download and installed a collection of unseen malware programs in victimized computers but was deciphered when a suspicious domain was found in Facebook’s Domain Name Server request log.

The perpetrators of this attack injected the code on the HTML of popular Mobile Developer web forum which tends to victimize any visitor that has java enabled on their browser.

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