by Wayne Hastings | Dec 22, 2022 | Business, Content Management, Google, Instagram, Social, Technology, Twitter
I wish these new social media apps popping up trying to pull eyeballs from Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook would embrace one thing: you must have an API that’s supported by the social media management platforms like HootSuite, Buffer, and Sendible. I’d be...
by Wayne Hastings | Nov 1, 2022 | Business, Social, Twitter
Twitter has 396,500,000 users worldwide. https://thesocialshepherd.com/blog/twitter-statistics In the second quarter of 2022, Twitter generated total advertising revenues of approximately one billion U.S. dollars, down from 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in the previous...
by Wayne Hastings | Nov 1, 2022 | Business, Content Management, FaceBook, Instagram, Politics, Social, Twitter
In the early days of social media, one of the promises was the democratization of the media. The problem is, the democratization of the media assumes everyone is acting in good faith and doing the work of vetting sources. What we got was the democratization of the...
by Wayne Hastings | May 7, 2020 | Life, Photos, Social, Virtual Worlds
Back in 2007-2009, I was spending a good bit of my free time in Second Life. Looking at old screenshots, feeling nostalgic.
by Wayne Hastings | Apr 7, 2020 | Etiquette, FaceBook, Hacks, Life, Random, Social, Technology
Are you on Facebook and upset that people are answering those personal question lists because they are similar to security questions websites use to verify identity? Here’s how you fix that. Think about it for a moment. Just because the question reads like a...
by Wayne Hastings | Jul 9, 2011 | Google, Social
If you want an invite to Google+, send me your Google account e-mail address and I’ll get you hooked up. Or, if you’re already using Google+, feel free to add me to one of your circles: http://gplus.to/waynehastings Why am I having deja vu? This reminds me...