Google quickly responded to Bing’s showing social media citations next to search results with their own thrown-together version that shows who shared a particular Google News story in Universal SERPs. Next to some Google News stories you now get a “Shared By” link that you can follow to see some of the people who have [...]

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Danny Sullivan has a flawed piece today titled “Is Twitter Sending You 500% To 1600% More Traffic Than You Might Think?” The sensational headline is no doubt good for traffic and his basic information and method is good, but the numbers are way off because he has a miniscule sample size. Google Analytics, and other [...]

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A dark vision of the future of Twitter? Satirical look at the perils and pointlessness of automated follower building? I started writing a post to go with this image, but realized the words were superfluous. Totally unrelated and unintended, but did you notice the optical illusion where the grey square between the corners of four [...]

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