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This week's need-to-know social-media news.
Instagram 's stylishly filtered photos haven't been appearing correctly on Twitter lately, showing up either in awkward sizes or oddly cropped. It's a problem, especially for users who have their Instagram account directly connected to Twitter.
More bad news: It doesn't look like there will be a solution to the problem any time soon. It appears the distancing between the two platforms was a conscious decision. "We wanted to make sure we direct users to where the content lives originally, so they get the full Instagram experience," Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom said in a recent report. Back in July, Twitter blocked Instagram users from using Twitter to find friends.
For now, businesses might consider using a different platform, such as Twitpic, for sharing photos with their Twitter audience. -- PR Daily
Microsoft's 'Socl' network launches.
Tech giant Microsoft spent months quietly building Socl, a media-sharing site that allows
users to create photo collages, watch videos with friends in
real time while chatting together and more. Socl has
officially launched, but could it be a next-level media and
brand-building platform? We think it's certainly worth keeping
an eye on. -- Microsoft Fuselabs
Foursquare to display event listings for
businesses.
Your small business can now post events that will be displayed in
Foursquare users' search results and in your Foursquare profile.
The location-based social tool apparently aims to demonstrate its
value to businesses as a means of drawing more customers.
-- SocialTimes
Tech company loses Twitter followers in suit against
former employee.
The $340,000 lawsuit that a web company brought last year against
a former employee who allegedly stole 17,000 Twitter followers
when he left the company has been settled. While the terms of the
agreement were not disclosed, the employee reportedly will
maintain control of his Twitter account and all of his followers.
The lesson here: Have a social media policy that spells out your
ownership of social media accounts to avoid any potential legal
disputes with employees. -- AllTwitter
Crime doesn't pay on social media.
File this under "how not to build your personal brand": A
19-year-old Nebraska woman held up a bank, made off with more
than $6,000 in a stolen car and then bragged about it in a video
on YouTube entitled "Chick bank robber." Inevitably -- given
that she wore the same clothes in her video that she had worn
to rob the bank -- police arrested her, and she now faces jail
time. -- NY Daily News
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