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This template allows posts from social media sites other than (but inclusive of) Twitter, to be easily quoted within articles. This is an alternative to (and fork of) Template:Tweet. It is more appropriate to use this template than a screenshot of a tweet or post, because the text it contains will be accessible to screen readers.
Social media allows for mass cultural exchange and intercultural communication, despite different ways of communicating in various cultures. [223] Social media has affected the way youth communicate, by introducing new forms of language. [224] Novel acronyms save time, as illustrated by "LOL", which is the ubiquitous shortcut for "laugh out loud".
Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service. [1] Although the terms e-marketing and digital marketing are still dominant in academia, social media marketing is becoming more popular for both practitioners and researchers.
The #WalkAway campaign is a social-media campaign that was launched ahead of the United States 2018 mid-term elections with the stated purpose of encouraging voters to leave the Democratic Party. [ 163 ] [ 164 ] The campaign, which also organized events to support Donald Trump , was noted and criticized [ 165 ] for its astroturfing methods and ...
A popular example of slacktivism is the social media campaign Kony 2012. While this campaign did gain strong social media traction with millions of views on their video, they failed to gain the same offline traction. A year later when they released Kony in 2013, they did get the same traction. [20]
Social marketing has existed for some time but has only started becoming a common term in recent decades. It was originally done using newspapers and billboards and has adapted to the modern world in many of the same ways commercial marketing has. The most common use of social marketing in today's society is through social media. [1] [2]
Viral marketing is a business strategy that uses existing social networks to promote a product mainly on various social media platforms. Its name refers to how consumers spread information about a product with other people, much in the same way that a virus spreads from one person to another. [ 1 ]
The Clinton campaign used social media to advertise Trump's use of fake news and potential Russian intervention. Many argue that Clinton's loss was in part due to Trump gaining the votes of groups that do not use social media, while Clinton's audience was active on most social media platforms. [32]