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		<title>Should your brand be on Pinterest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetOver the past few months, activity on the social network Pinterest has exploded. Pinterest is focused on the lifestyles of its members and encourages them to create different virtual pinboards onto which they can ‘pin’ things they like. From September to December 2011, unique visitors to pinterest.com increased by a staggering 429% and over 3.3.million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research claims that 25% of tweets are not worth reading. So what?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetAccording to research from a team at Carnegie Mellon University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Georgia Institute of Technology, we think that 25% of tweets are not worth reading. The study found that, when asked to rate tweets by people they follow, only 36% of tweets were marked favourably, 25% were marked less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What’s hot in social media &#8211; January 2012 round up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetWith seven in ten brands saying they plan to increase their presence across social media in 2012 (according to a recent survey by Awareness) we thought it would be a good idea to take a regular look at the current social media landscape. So here&#8217;s a quick run down of  what we think has been hot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instagram and the growing power of photography in social media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetThe Crimean War of the 1850s was a revolution in communication. For the first time reports from the battlefield were returned in what felt like near-real-time thanks to the electric telegraph transmitting messages in just hours rather than them having to be sent by horse across Europe. Many people complained about the impact of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Capital One and American Express are the top financial services brands on Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TweetCapital One and American Express are the top financial services brands on Facebook, according to a chart compiled by social media analytics tool socialbakers. While Capital One&#8217;s Facebook page features within the top 150 brands on this list, and the American Express Facebook page is just outside it, the next most successful financial services brand on Facebook is US [...]]]></description>
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