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Your Twitter account might have been hacked today, although it probably wasn't. Confused? So were a number of Twitter users around the world after they received an email telling them to change their passwords.The social network says it sent out a legitimate email to some users whose accounts had ...

LinkedIn is one of the few major Western social networks not blocked in China. It's slide-hosting service SlideShare may not be as fortunate.A screenshot from watch group China Internet Watch's Facebook page shows that the site is not loading for users trying to access it directly via the web:It ...

As a practicing B2B social media marketer, I use LinkedIn and Twitter extensively to share thoughts with my Twitter followers and LinkedIn connections. To make it easier to share the same content across both platforms, a link was provided between Twitter and LinkedIn. You could use this in two ways ...

Possibly the greatest benefit for any business executive is LinkedIn’s unique ability to build their professional brand – and make it easy for other professionals to find their profile when in need of a specialist. In fact, if you only had one place to focus your energy on and build ...

Co-authored by Jonathan HoustonAccording to www.dailybloggr.com, if you want to trend on Twitter, all you need is around 100 people tweeting the same hashtag simultaneously. Sounds simple but this may not be that easy to pull off. It’s about the volume of your audience rather than the volume of your ...

When it comes to social media campaigns, LinkedIn isn't always at the top of people’s minds.Using LinkedIn for business is quite different to all the other popular social media channels such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. It is, however, worthwhile. The professional social network boasts more than 150-million members and ...

If you’re like a lot of bloggers, you’ve already got a LinkedIn account but probably don’t know quite what to do with it. Sure, you know you can build relationships through Facebook and find topic ideas on Twitter, but what of LinkedIn? Are there ways you can use this social ...

When you heard about some 6.5-million of LinkedIn's password's being leaked, you may have felt a twinge of panic (even if you hadn't been on there in months).Some opportunistic developers have built a tool called LeakedIn, which allows you to to check if your password was one of the ...

Online dating site eHarmony has confirmed that it too suffered a hack on its password database.In an official blog post, the company said that the attack had affected a minority of its user base:After investigating reports of compromised passwords, we have found that a small fraction of ...

While Facebook shares seem as volatile as anything, one is left questioning how valuable social networking really is. As the poet and philosopher George Santayana once said, "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I think its time that we take a good look back at ...