The Top 5 Social Media News Of This Week

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Social media platforms are made to make it easier for brands and marketers to spread their messages across all of their audiences. And although they, indeed, achieve to do so with spectacular efficiency, they have also made life more difficult for marketers.

Social media platforms are made to spread messages across audiences. Do they really?

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Nowadays it has become accepted that you should be connected all the time, ready to respond to customers, capable of posting something when the time is right, not when it was most convenient for you. This makes it a lot more hard work, right?

Thankfully, there also are more and more tools to help us cope. And that is, indeed, very welcome. And also the focus on this week’s top social media news.

So are you ready for this week’s Top 5 news on We are Social Media?

	4 Tools To Save You When Your Graphic Designer Is Away – No matter what happens (to your graphic designer), it’s important to keep your Social Media buzzing. And, as you probably already know, the world agrees images are key to engagement, right?
	Take Off – The Smart Scheduling App For Instagram – Take Off is a great new tool coming from the developers behind CrowdFire (the app that lets you manage your Twitter followers, formally known has justunfollow.com) and the app already counts more than 800,000 users.
	How To Become A Social Media Freelancer – Most businesses and agencies now have permanent social media staff to ensure they stay on top of trends and don’t fall behind the competition. At the same time, there has also been an increase in demand for freelance social media and content support for larger or short term projects.
	6 Best Practices For Responding To Customers On Twitter – If you are going to use Twitter as a customer-service tool, you should be very confident using the platform itself, but you should also know a few tips that will help you shine – best practices that will make you a lot better at it.
	What Happens On Facebook In The Summertime? – The summertime is nearly here, at least for all of us in the northern hemisphere! The weather is getting hotter by the day, and the days longer and longer. It’s those changes in temperature that also have an effect on people and their habits on Facebook.