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AddThis Removes "via @addthis" Suffix in Tweets

AddThis

I just noticed in the last couple of days that the sharing platform AddThis has removed “via @addthis” at the end of tweets using their widget. I use AddThis throughout the site. It’s a handy little widget that allows users to share articles through any social bookmarking/sharing site, like Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and Pinterest.

As a website owner, I use it to tweet articles to my Twitter account. I used to manually get rid of the “via @addthis” suffix each time to give me more available characters and to make the tweet cleaner.

 

Why Digg's Rebound is Significant to Every Single Social Media Site

Digg

Once the shark is jumped, the downfall begins, and a social media site loses relevance, it's officially over for them. MySpace, Propeller, Yahoo! Buzz, Pownce, Mixx -- the list of social sites that couldn't turn it around goes on and on. Digg is proving to be the exception and it's an important twist for every social media site alive today.

 

StumbleUpon Hits 1 Billion Stumbles Per Month

StumbleUpon Hits 1 Billion Stumbles Per Month

StumbleUpon is hot. The discovery and recommendation engine that makes web browsing a lot like channel surfing just announced it's now handling 1 billion stumbles per month.

 

Big change for Facebook Share button

Say goodbye to the Share button because the Like button is taking over.

Senh: I find the two buttons redundant, but most sites still use both.

 

StumbleUpon Surpasses Facebook For Social Media Traffic Generation

StumbleUpon Surpasses Facebook For Social Media Traffic Generation

How can a site with 12 million users send more traffic than a site with 600 million users? When your site is specifically designed to do nothing but send traffic. StumbleUpon may be small compared to sites like Facebook, Twitter, and MySpace, but it sends the most social media traffic around the web according to the latest numbers by StatCounter.

Senh: I concur. StumbleUpon is consistently the best referrer of all social bookmarking sites for Wopular.

 

Here's What Happened to Delicious

Over at Quora, Tripline founder and CEO Byron Dumbrill answers the question, "Why did Delicious fail?" Dumbrill joined Yahoo in 2006, about nine months after it acquired the bookmarking service, and his explanation corresponds with what we've been hearing for several years about its fate. Delicious was back-burnered while the company focused on Yahoo Bookmarks.

 

AOL To Shutdown Social Bookmarking Site Propeller.com

AOL To Shutdown Social Bookmarking Site Propeller.com

AOL's Propeller Team has announced on their website that Propeller.com will be no longer active from October 1 2010.

Senh: A digg clone bites the dust.

 

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