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Rippla, a site to monitor the social media ‘ripples’ of news stories, launches
Rippla has today launched as a site to track how news stories are shared via social media. Take a look at the home screen and you will see stories generating the most shares on Facebook, Twitter,...
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Tool of the week for journalists – Playground, to monitor social media analytics
Tool of the week: Playground, by PeopleBrowsr. What is it? A social analytics platform which contains over 1,000 days of tweets (all 70 billion of them), Facebook activity and blog posts. How is it of...
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Guardian’s Facebook app delivering 1m extra hits a day
The Guardian’s Facebook app is generating almost a million extra page impressions per day, according to figures released by the news outlet and by Facebook. Two months on from its launch at Facebook’s...
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Top 10 Facebook news stories of 2011
Facebook last week published a list of the most shared articles on Facebook in 2011. That list included only US publishers – so we decided to create a list of the most shared, liked and commented...
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Top 20 most clicked news stories on Facebook in 2011
Facebook has this afternoon released its own list of the top news stories of 2011. Yesterday Journalism.co.uk published a list of top 10 Facebook stories. We looked at total numbers of shares, likes...
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Tool of the week for journalists – Facebook Search
Tool of the week: Facebook Search What is it? A tool that allows you to search Facebook without logging in How is it of use to journalists? Social media searches have become a key part of...
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Tool of the week for journalists – Rippla, for tracking the social ‘ripples’...
Tool of the week: Rippla What is it? A tool that allows you to monitor the social media “ripples” of a news story How is it of use to journalists? Rippla was launched last month as a tool that tracks...
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Journalism.co.uk’s top 10 stories on Facebook in 2011
Click the above image to connect with Journalism.co.uk on Facebook After taking a look at the top 10 Facebook news stories of 2011 and the top 10 Twitter news stories of 2011, we’ve compiled a list of...
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New York Times gets new-look Facebook page with timeline of 160-year history
The New York Times is among several US media outlets to adopt a new-style Facebook page. The page makes the most of the timeline feature, adding photos and anecdotes from the Grey Lady’s 160-year...
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Facebook: Guardian app has 3.9m monthly active users
The Guardian has 3.9 million monthly active users, over half of whom are under 25. Facebook has today published a “spotlight” on the Guardian’s app on its developer blog. The app has had more than six...
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Social predicted to overtake search as Guardian traffic driver
The Guardian’s Facebook app has been downloaded eight million times since it was launched six months ago, seeing around 40,000 downloads a day. Speaking at the Guardian Changing Media Summit, Tanya...
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Economist seeks to build relationships with 1m Facebook fans
The Economist has today announced that it has clocked up one million fans on Facebook. The fans come from 180 countries, with the largest number living in the United States, followed by India, the UK,...
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Tool of the week for journalists: Muck Rack
Tool of the week: Muck Rack What is it? A site that aggregates Twitter and social media feeds for thousands of professional journalists. How is it of use to journalists? Journalists often break or...
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Guardian’s n0tice launches Facebook sharing app
Online noticeboard n0tice has launched a Facebook sharing app, allowing users to “amplify activity” and spread posts virally. The Guardian set up n0tice as a platform to utilise developments in...
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How important are ‘tweet’ and ‘like’ buttons to news publishers?
A conversation was sparked on the effect of social media sharing buttons by the designer Oliver Reichenstein on his blog informationArchitects. In the post titled Sweep the Sleaze he writes: But do...
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