By using social media bots, celebrities, politicians and others can falsely inflate the number of friends and followers they have, possibly swaying public opinion about a new song — or a policy position.
Getting a ticket to see the show would have required the kind of social-media shillling that I don’t think anyone’s friends or followers should be subjected to.
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A rush of new entrants to new media involves people. The latest, called Inside, is a news aggregator that aims to ignore news aggregators and point people to original content.
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A day after Yahoo’s board approved a deal to acquire Tumblr, Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s chief, and David Karp, Tumblr’s founder, reassured users that Tumblr would operate as it did before.
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General Motors, which made headlines in May 2012 when it stopped running paid advertising on Facebook, said on Tuesday that it had begun a test program of paid ads on facebook.com aimed at consumers who check Facebook on their mobile devices.
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The company hopes to weave itself seamlessly into the mobile world.
Timothy Noah, an editor at the magazine, tweeted out that he had been fired.
Apple and Amazon are trying to make it possible for Web consumers to swap content on a grand scale, Time Warner’s spinoff of Time Inc. is the latest evidence of a strategy of divestment, and Facebook’s redesign strategy is already popular with advertisers.
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