Companies that provide financial data are increasingly interested in our "likes" and tweets. A Ph.D. student recently studied how positive social media mentions are linked to stock market performance, and came up with some interesting results.
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How Much Is A ‘Like’ On Facebook Worth For A Company’s Share Price? : All Tech Considered : NPR
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Social Media Advice: When To Wish Happy Birthday? : NPR
Social media experts Baratunde Thurston and Deanna Zandt answer questions about how to behave in the digital age. This week’s topic: When a person has hundreds, perhaps even thousands of friends on Facebook, what’s the rule for wishing them a happy birthday?
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162963623/social-media-advice-when-to-wish-happy-birthday
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For $75, This Guy Will Sell You 1,000 Facebook ‘Likes’ : Planet Money : NPR
People are gaming Facebook’s system. That could hurt the company’s business prospects.
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Pizza Delicious Bought An Ad On Facebook. How’d They Do? : Planet Money : NPR
What happened when two guys who sell pizza out of a window in New Orleans decided to buy a Facebook ad â and what it says about the state of social-media advertising.
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Andy Carvin and Twitter’s New Journalism
February 25, 2011 Twitter and Facebook have been conduits of information throughout the protests in the Arab world. But that news has been atomized, second by second accounts coming from hundreds of unknown sources. Into that relentless stream has stepped NPR’s Andy Carvin, who’s become a one-stop clearinghouse of news by vetting sources and trying to verify individual tweets. Carvin explains how Twitter’s political utility has also created a new kind of journalism.
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