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BRB – The Death of a Social Messaging Acronym

  We all remember the acronym BRB. It’s one of the more polite abbreviations in the world of social messaging, a way of respectfully letting the person you’re chatting to know that you’ll be momentarily taking time out of communication to do something else. Well, it is with deep regret and sadness
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Tinder Acquires Tappy For $10 Million

  You may well be familiar with Tinder, even if you don’t publicly admit it. It’s the social matchmaking mobile app that allows its users to set a specific radius and have the option to match with anybody within that distance. Tappy on the other hand, you may not have

Social Media Features You need to Stop Neglecting

  Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while, you could miss it.” He wasn’t talking about the world of social media, but he could have been. It’s easy to neglect the most important features of social media platform;

The Apprentice 2014 – Was It Really a Winning Business Idea?

  Did you catch the 2014 series of The Apprentice? Here at Giraffe we were particularly enthralled to see contestants taking part whose business ideas involved digital marketing – to some degree. The victor – who won a £250,000 investment to go in to business with Lord Sugar – was an
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Top Five Reasons to Love Top Five Articles

  There are an abundance of lists on the internet. Thanks to the likes of Buzzfeed and Mashable with a simple Google search can find a list for pretty much anything. And it’s normally only when we reach number 3 on “This year’s 5 hottest summer insoles” that we begin to wonder why.. People
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Social Media Debate: Russell Brand Vs The Sun

Social media has born witness to a more than it’s fair share of feuds, many of them on Twitter. To use a cowboy analogy, the social network can sometimes be the internet equivalent of a saloon duelling ground. One particular example that springs to mind is the war of words between Russell Brand and The Sun
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8 Social Media Books To Add To Your Winter Reading List

  It’s that time of year again, isn’t it? Christmas songs are beginning to emanate from the car radio on the drive in to work and we’re already knee deep in the annual avalanche of seasonal advertising… Instead of identifying those all-important ingredients of what makes the most heart-warming, tear

3 Cringeworthy Social Media Fails

  Not all social media campaigns are a success. On the contrary, you don’t have to look far before you see examples of businesses that have managed to fail astronomically. The old adage may be that all PR is good PR – but we can’t help but feel sometimes that

10 Notable Social Media Developments

Social media is now such an intrinsic part of our daily lives, it’s sometimes hard to imagine a time before its existence. So for all of our younger followers out there, as well as those who are a little long in the tooth, here’s 10 (of many) events that have

What’s The Deal With Google Plus?

  Okay, so we’re going to lay our cards on the table for a second and declare our love for Google Plus here at Giraffe Social Media. At every opportunity we encourage businesses and existing clients to build a presence on the platform despite it still being relatively new and