I need to monitoring a few social media accounts (on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram) for a short period of time. Is there a service I can use that will give me a feed of just these select accounts, without giving me a feed of all the accounts I follow/am friends with?
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posted by lunasol
on Jun 6, 2013 -
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Twitter is breaking shit because they hate their users/want to monetize. I used to use Tweetdeck to send out coordinated facebook and twitter posts for work; I'd like to avoid using two different programs (doubling my work). HootSuite seems close, but for semi-irrelevant reasons, not currently an option. I run a Mac.
What are the best options out there?
posted by klangklangston
on May 14, 2013 -
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So, I've recently inherited the community and social media role for the company I work for. I'm hoping to use our social media presence to drive up engagement and get users to use our product (a niche-focused social network in the finance realm), but I want to do it
without being a douchebag.
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posted by SansPoint
on Apr 9, 2013 -
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My mom wants me to help her with her "online presence." How do you do that for a therapist?
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posted by mokin
on Apr 2, 2013 -
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II am trying to get a handle on web content and which content has, overall, the best stickiness. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, Flickr are, as near as I can tell, mostly visual. Blog and microblogging sites like Wordpress and Twitter are word based. Quora, Reddit and Metafilter are information sharing communities. Podcasts and music sites like MySpace or Soundcloud are, for the most part, sound focused. And then you have sites like Facebook and Google+ that are trying to combine the best of all of them.
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posted by CollectiveMind
on Mar 10, 2013 -
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A team from our office is heading over to a number of China cities and they want to be active on social media the whole time to promote it. But given that China blocks twitter and Facebook, I need some workarounds. Is there a client like Hootsuite or tweet deck or buffer that ISN'T blocked? And what are my other options? Does instagram work? What about Linkedin?
posted by rileyray3000
on Feb 21, 2013 -
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I have been combing the social networks I use trying to find a way to link two of them. It's not a big list; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Soundcloud, and Wordpress. I know about IFTTT and Hootsuite, but I'd prefer to not use third party apps if possible. Facebook and Twitter of course, connect to almost everything. But I'm also trying to figure out how stuff I upload to Soundcloud can be posted on LinkedIn. And likewise, I can't get LinkedIn posts to show up my Facebook business page. Is it just not possible w/o 3rd party apps that will make posts I don't need? If there is a way, can somebody tell me?
posted by CollectiveMind
on Feb 8, 2013 -
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I want to transform my department's social media team into the campus experts on social media. What are the books, workshops, tools, websites and communities I should be looking into?
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posted by pwnguin
on Jan 19, 2013 -
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What's an example of a project like Diaspora or App.net that's actually been successful?
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posted by pete_22
on Dec 16, 2012 -
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I'm really tired of social media; I've grown to find all of it (FB, twitter, etc.) endlessly boring. For those of you who have come to the same place, have you just faded away, or do you leave notes on your open accounts to the effect that "I'm not really here anymore?" Prolly not going to shut it off altogether.
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posted by Admiral Haddock
on Dec 4, 2012 -
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My Facebook posts appear on my twitter feed, but my tweets dont appear on my Facebook feed (which is what I really need)...
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posted by sandra_s
on Oct 22, 2012 -
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What did I do to my iPhone 4 that caused it to not be able to "save images" from Twitter and Facebook anymore? All the gory details inside...
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posted by Hanuman1960
on Sep 20, 2012 -
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I recently became enthralled with the unfolding Twitter saga of the larcenous wedding photographer. So now I'm wondering how many similar stories have happened without me realizing; not just the big stories like Anthony Weiner, the Li Gong incident and Cook Source, but more low-key incidents that I might not have heard about where people were lying, cheating, or were just plain wrong and were discovered through social media. The human flesh search engine and Internet vigilantism articles on Wikipedia have some famous examples, but does anyone know about more obscure stuff? Thanks!
posted by jihaan
on May 27, 2012 -
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I've been failing on getting some friends to go out and do stuff with me, and need some help figuring out what I can do to get better success.
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posted by garlic
on May 18, 2012 -
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I'm evaluating options for social media dashboard type interfaces. Is hootsuite still the best?
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posted by TimeDoctor
on May 15, 2012 -
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What are the ways we could expand services and support available to LGBT young people online?
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posted by Kirn
on May 2, 2012 -
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I want to promote a podcast by auto-posting to social media using the RSS feed. However, the links that post go to my website and not to the individual podcasts. What can I do to make this work?
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posted by aabbbiee
on Feb 8, 2012 -
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Yahoo-Pipes-filter, or there's-gotta-be-a-way filter: help me figure out a way to automatically post new posts to Facebook and Twitter. A couple difficulties inside...
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posted by chrisinseoul
on Jan 29, 2012 -
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I have been tasked by my boss to look into legit vendors of services to: increase our facebook fan page likes, and increase our twitter followers. Take it as a given that I have already tried to dissuade him, and help me at least execute the task as best as possible. Ideally, i am looking for services that actually help you get real people and not fake accounts or spam bots, etc.
posted by Zinger
on Dec 3, 2011 -
9 answers
Beyond just saying "I want a job", how can I effectively and creatively use social media like Facebook and Twitter to get a job?
posted by Effigy2000
on Sep 23, 2011 -
10 answers
I'm looking for materials that can be used to help train people how to best use social media to help nonprofits engage the community.
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posted by reenum
on Jul 26, 2011 -
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Developers and content curators: Help me with some market research. I am trying to find an off-the-shelf solution or to spec out how to develop a solution to the following problem. My organization is looking to setup an internal collection, curation, and distribution system to push multimedia content to hundreds of social media accounts (in dozens of languages) with potentially hundreds of users. Ability to enable push-button publishing via Facebook, Twitter, and other APIs through a plug-in architecture. Sound interesting? Read on.
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posted by Hammerikaner
on May 5, 2011 -
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I have been charged with recruiting a social media advisor for the organisation -and I'm not quite sure how I can evaluate the person's knowledge.
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posted by the noob
on Apr 3, 2011 -
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Social media tracking: my organization's Twitter and Facebook pages are nearing milestone numbers of followers, and to help push us over the hump I'd like to do a giveaway to the round number follower. How can I track who is the X-th person to follow us on Twitter and the Y-th person to "Like" us on Facebook?
posted by moviehawk
on Mar 1, 2011 -
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I love my HDTV hooked up to a Mac Mini, but I want it to look like more than a computer desktop with icons. Any recommendations for bigscreen Mac apps that will bring the TV to life with Twitter updates, news feeds, ambient phantasmagoria, you name it?
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posted by teedee2000
on Feb 21, 2011 -
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Facebook and Twitter are passing me by. It's no longer enough to know how to rank very well in Google, by providing good material that people want to read and that is easily indexed by Google. Now, we're told, Google is passé. Small businesses must switch to using Facebook and Twitter to reach their audiences. But how?
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posted by Ery
on Feb 15, 2011 -
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What are the best-practices for a small business with limited resources when it comes to juggling the major social media platforms (e.g., FaceBook, Twitter, and blog)?
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posted by webhund
on Jan 31, 2011 -
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Can anyone recommend legit ad networks, vendors etc. to help us grow a client's Facebook fans and Twitter followers quickly?
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posted by carofowler
on Dec 15, 2010 -
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AskMe is always saying that one should register their full name on certain web services, just to protect them for future use. I have the basics - what am I missing?
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posted by SNWidget
on Nov 25, 2010 -
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Which tumblr themes automatically attach "Share This on Facebook" and "Share This on Twitter" buttons to every individual post? I'm interested in both free and premium themes. Bonus points if you can point me to a real-life Tumblr blog that uses the particular theme.
posted by yankeefog
on Nov 14, 2010 -
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Teaching English to a class of university-aged students. There will be one laptop and one projector in the classroom. I've never used technology in the classroom before. Help!
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posted by mammary16
on Sep 20, 2010 -
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Does anyone know of a more dependable alternative to RSS Graffiti? It does all the right things, but also does some squirrelly things it shouldn't...
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posted by Ignatius J. Reilly
on Aug 26, 2010 -
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I'm hiring, and in addition to interviewing, checking references (official and un-), etc., I'd like to see how candidates are using Twitter, Facebook, and/or Tumblr. Facility with this stuff isn't a primary requirement of the job, but it's helpful; I also think it's a good way to gauge a candidate's judgement and to see how they manage their public face. On the other hand, it feels like following or friending is weird, or possibly an invasion of privacy. Is it?
posted by janet lynn
on Aug 20, 2010 -
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AndroidFilter: How do I link certain contacts in my contactbook to their Facebook profiles or Twitter pages... when the names don't match?
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posted by smitt
on Aug 3, 2010 -
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I'm seeking to write a shell script (probably using sed) that will be given some text and will abbreviate it for me. I've no need to reinvent the wheel, if such a shell script already exists. More inside.
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posted by WCityMike
on Jul 26, 2010 -
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Planners, Social Media Experts, and Community Activists: Have you encountered any really great uses of the internet for keeping a community informed and engaged in a public planning process?
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posted by otherwordlyglow
on May 13, 2010 -
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Is there a way to simultaneously update my facebook, twitter, and blog with an update? I am new to doing social media for an organization, and we want to be accessible in multiple formats. Any tips for how to do that effectively would be most appreciated.
posted by tnygard
on May 7, 2010 -
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I need an online tool to that people can submit content to that also includes some sort of calendar for scheduling when that content will actually be posted. Process suggestions also welcome.
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posted by Kimberly
on Mar 12, 2010 -
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Where can I find accurate and qualitative data about risks of using social networking tools?
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posted by jmnugent
on Jan 11, 2010 -
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Any good examples of "Social Sign In"? For the little web toys I make, I don't want to make full sign up forms, so I'm looking for any sites that are using Facebook / Twitter / Google / Yahoo / OpenID / etc for sign in. Something like what stack overflow is doing here: http://stackoverflow.com/users/login (only OpenID though).
posted by slactoid
on Nov 7, 2009 -
8 answers
Are there good examples of Twitter (or status updates on Facebook) being used to answer questions AskMe-style? Or even better, to collaboratively solve a problem, like when the Scooby Gang here sussed out Kaycee Nicole?
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posted by anildash
on Oct 22, 2009 -
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