Jonathan Beeston

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Using IFTTT and Twitter Lists to irritate people

@beeston are you running a script that add’s people to lists? — Chris McCarthy-Stott (@mcstot) March 17, 2015 Busted. Yes I was. For a couple of months I decided to use IFTTT to automagically add people to Twitter lists. I did it, cynically, to see if I could game followers. And it probably worked; adding […]

in Social Media | 567 Words | 6 Comments

4 reasons why Facebook is staying out of web search

Facebook announced it isn’t going to show results from Bing any more as part of Facebook’s own search results. That’s led to speculation that Facebook might be trying to build a web search engine itself. I think that’s misguided for many reasons. 1. Facebook search for its own content is still poor “1% done” is […]

in Social Media | 370 Words | 1 Comment

Combining Buffer and Tweetbot

My favourite mobile Twitter client is Tweetbot. My favourite freemium social media tool is Buffer*. But they don’t work together, despite long-standing demand from the user base. There is a workaround though and I’m an idiot for not realising it earlier. Buffer has a great email capability, but the email needs to be in a […]

in Social Media | 166 Words | 2 Comments

‘Facebook has too much going on’

It’s good to absorb stats. How many active users does Facebook have? How many Tweets there were during X-factor? The online marketing industry is full of them. But the more interesting question is always: why? Why are people doing what they do? So when I can, I ask people. Not people in the industry. No, […]

in Social Media | 318 Words | 2 Comments

Facebook Ad Network: pros and cons

On Friday news broke that Facebook had changed its privacy policies to make way for it to create an external ad network. It’s one of the most interesting developments of the year, but what are the pros and cons of the Facebook Ad Network (FAN*), who will it challenge and what are the questions that […]

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