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    Twitter Ads API: This Week in Social Media

    by Cindy King / February 23, 2013

    social media researchWelcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

    To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.

    What's New This Week?

    Twitter Officially Launches Their Ads API: “What this means is that as marketers, you'll soon have the ability to work with Twitter's initial set of Ads API partners to manage Twitter Ad campaigns—and integrate them into your existing cross-channel advertising strategies.”

    Twitter's Ads API is here: What it means for marketers adage.com/u/Y18ojb via @lazerow @adage

    — Twitter Advertising (@TwitterAds) February 20, 2013


    Posterous Turns Off on April 30: As of April 30, “Posterous Spaces will no longer be available either to view or to edit.” If you have a Posterous account, you must request a backup before this date. Check out the Just Migrate tool below if you have a Tumblr account. And also have a look at Posthaven, a new site by Posterous co-founder Garry Tan.

    post haven
    Check out Posthaven if you are looking for a simple blogging platform.

    Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:

        • Is your personal Facebook profile more active than your Facebook Business Page?
        • Can you delegate social media?
      • Share your best blog post this week!

    YouTube Collaboration Makes it Easier to Translate Your Video Captions: YouTube now makes it easier for you to get your captions translated. They are collaborating with “Gengo and Translated.net, to make their services available to you and to streamline the ordering process. Now you can connect directly with translation vendors and pay to get your captions translated quickly and professionally.”

    youtube caption translation

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    Bitly Introduces Link Insights: This popular link-shortening platform now allows you to “learn more about the ‘life' of any link you save, with key insights about the link that are displayed the second you save it.”

    bitly insights
    “Key insights include being the first to save a link, or saving a link that was popular today or in the past.”

    Kickstarter Launches iPhone App: “Kickstarter is a new way to fund and follow creative projects. Everything from films, games and music to art, design and technology.” And you can now do this from your iPhone.

    kickstarter app
    Check out the new iPhone app to follow your favorite Kickstarter creative projects.

    Here are some interesting news items to follow:

    Twitter Reminds Users About Password Security: “Over the past couple of days, there's been a fair amount of conversation about account security on Twitter.” Here's a reminder of the “best practices around passwords—both on Twitter and on the Internet generally.”

    Facebook Posts a Note About Graph Search for Young People: Facebook says that “for certain searches that could help to identify a young person by age or by their location, results will only show to that person's Friends, or Friends of Friends who are also between the age of 13-17.”

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    Here are two cool tools worth noting:

    Boldomatic: “A fun and simple way to craft and share text-images with your iPhone.”

    boldomatic
    “Getting attention just became easier.”

    Just Migrate: A tool to move your content on Posterous to Tumblr.

    just migrate
    Check out this tool if you want to move your Posterous content to Tumblr before Posterous shuts down on April 30.

    And don't miss this:

    Social Media Marketing World is Social Media Examiner's latest mega-conference—taking place at the waterfront San Diego Marriott Marquis & Marina in San Diego, California on April 7-9, 2013.

    As you'd expect, Social Media Examiner recruited the biggest and best names in the world of social media marketing for this conference. Only the best for you! Be sure to check it out.

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    About the authorCindy King

    Cindy King is the director of editorial for Social Media Examiner. She spent 25 years abroad in international business development and then built her own international business using social business networking.
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