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8 Ways to Help Your Tweets Go Viral

Up and Running

It’s the dream of every business to have a social media campaign that goes viral. So, how can you get your Tweets to go viral too? At Indiana University, Bloomington, researchers compared 120 million actual retweets with a random computer model and found very little difference in the way ideas propagated. Randomness. Randomness.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

This directory was created by New York-based digital agency Kettle , “because it’s easier for Indiana Jones to recover the Sankara Stones than for someone with an idea for an app to find a decent app developer,&# according to the site’s creators. Fees for these devs and shops run from under $5,000 to more than $20,000.

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

You can outsource your development to India, the Ukraine, Buenas Aires, or even Indiana. That's right--Indiana. Are there not enough blogs out there about viral loops? More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.

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Justin Bieber: Incredible Teen Entrepreneur

Growthink Blog

And because he connected with his target audience (young girls), his videos started going viral. I mean, this is a star talent that has impressed the likes of Usher, and he's doing small shows at middle schools in urban Indiana. And then, realizing that he could get serious exposure, he started putting videos of himself on YouTube.