Content Trends

An Astounding Stat from Twitter: 162,000 apps suspended

April 1, 2019
Content Carnivores
Content Trends

We like Twitter, and we liked it even before all the celebs started turning it into their megaphone (or Maga-phone). We liked it before the sentiment of every public event was simulcast on live news shows trying to stay relevant to an audience that was leaving them for online news. We liked Twitter when they had the most open API of any social network and allowed developers to create truly innovative combinations pretty much untethered. We still like Twitter, but…

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Machine Learning, Cool. How’s Your Human Learning?

October 1, 2018
Content Carnivores
Content Carnivores, Content Trends

  More than ever people deserve qualified, expert, verifiable information and commentary. Researchers and due diligence pros have always known this. Savvy investors already demand it and use the source of the information as a factor in deciding where to put their money. But with the growth of social media and the proliferation of landing pages and micro-sites where anything can be hosted and distributed en masse, even the mighty Google search alone can’t filter all. Human filters and machine…

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Are Hashtags Still #Relevant?

June 26, 2018
Content Carnivores
Content Tips and Tricks, Content Trends

Hashtags were originally created to categorize conversations. Look up a keyword with the “#” symbol in front and boom you have a million tweets/images/posts about that specific topic. It is a revolutionary tool; one of the first of many strides the internet took to save us time. Hashtags are great tools to spread information and find people with similar interests. Hashtags like #motivationmonday and #throwbackthursday were popular among communities and added a personal flare to social media. However, how do…

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Twitter, Mark Cuban, and Biotech Investing

October 26, 2017
Content Carnivores
Content Carnivores, Content Trends

You may not believe your audience is on social media. We have heard this almost weekly for the 3-plus years we’ve been sharing millions of social posts monthly on behalf of our customers. Institutional investors aren’t on social. Health IT isn’t on social. Biotech isn’t on social. Private Equity and VC investors aren’t on social. Those are the categories we serve and our customers each started with that observation.   But every political report, sports broadcast, business update or global alert…

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Social Media’s First Presidential Election

November 9, 2016
Content Carnivores
Content Carnivores, Content Trends

FDR Won with Radio. JFK won with TV. DJT won with Social Media. As a first time voter, I cast my Presidential Election ballot early in the morning with no line ahead of me. As a social media manager at Content Carnivores, I couldn’t just ignore it during the day, but held off becoming obsessed with the coverage, and started streaming election coverage on my computer and other devices around 7pm. It all went into overload from there. I constantly…

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