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While on Face­book I read that the Health Care Bill in the US passed.  I wanted to learn more about it so did a search through Google and could not find the lat­est news (this was last night).  I then went to Twit­ter and there were lots of post about this.

So a ques­tion, where are folks get­ting the infor­ma­tion that is posted on Twit­ter and Face­book before Google, Yahoo, Bling, etc. have it listed.  If it is on the TV, radio, then how does it hit in social media first before the news wires pick it up and have it posted — OR — is it all related to search?

So are we the reporters now, and if so, can we trust what is being reported?  I know / I know… but think about it.  It’s not just the top news sto­ries, it is also what is being reported for the lat­est issues with SEO, search engine updates, and so much more.

So my ques­tion, do we trust what is being reported in social media or do we trust what we even­tu­ally see in news reports through search engine searches?

Jan

I watched a pro­gram tonight that was on prior to the Acad­emy Awards pro­gram called the ‘Red Car­pet’.  It was the nor­mal ‘meet and great’ of stars.  You know… who they were with, what they were wear­ing, etc. One big thing that really stood out to me was that the inter­view­ers / reporters talked to the stars BUT asked ques­tions that had been posted on Face­book and Twit­ter — and — not one even flinched.  Wow, what a change from even last year.

So you have to know that if social media has hit the Oscar ‘red car­pet’ you best be hit­ting social media in your business!

Many con­grats to the win­ners Jeff, San­dra and Kathryn — right on!!

BTW — did you get a look at some of those dresses???

Jan

I went into Face­book yes­ter­day and noticed at the top it now had News Feed and Live Feed.  Wasn’t sure what it was except that Live Feed looks very much like Twit­ter with benefits. 

Facebook’s Ray­lene Yung  explains: “While see­ing real-time activ­i­ties is extremely valu­able, we also want to be sure you don’t miss other inter­est­ing con­tent. After hear­ing feed­back from many of you and explor­ing some new designs, we decided with today’s changes to move what you used to see in High­lights from the right-hand side to the News Feed view in the main col­umn so you can more eas­ily engage with both views.”

Chris Crum’s arti­cle states they are test­ing so this may change due to how users react. 

What do you think?

There are a num­ber of good arti­cles out there about what is going on with Google and Bing when it comes to Rank­ings and search results.

“Google and Microsoft have both inked deals with Twit­ter, and Microsoft has also inked one with Face­book to inte­grate Twit­ter and Face­book updates into Bing search results. Google will be adding tweets to search results.” says  Chris Crum.

Google’s Marissa Mayer says, “We believe that our search results and user expe­ri­ence will greatly ben­e­fit from the inclu­sion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look for­ward to hav­ing a prod­uct that show­cases how tweets can make search bet­ter in the com­ing months. That way, the next time you search for some­thing that can be aided by a real-time obser­va­tion, say, snow con­di­tions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and shar­ing the lat­est and great­est information.”

Click here to read more of his article.

Any­one who uses Twit­ter fre­quently knows how hard it is to keep up with Tweets.  Not only that, if some­one has posted some­thing and you answer your answer will come as a tweet and not a retweet if you don’t do it right.

One of the best ways to ensure you are reply­ing to a tweet is “Tweet­deck”  http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/Tweetdeck 

Tweet­deck is a very pop­u­lar appli­ca­tion for run­ning Twit­ter on your desk­top and phone. It has many fea­tures, but one of its best is its one-click retweet­ing fea­ture – hov­er­ing over a pro­file pic­ture pro­vides the easy option for retweet­ing anyone’s tweets – just click the bot­tom left icon.

Here’s is how it looks on my com­puter screen

Tweet­deck is free to down­load, installs quickly but how would any­one get any work done!