Tuesday Tune-Up #170

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#Sydneysiege & #illridewithyou counted 1.1 million mentions globally

Yesterday was definitely a dark day for Australians and Sydneysiders. An armed gunman entered the Lindt Chocolat Café in Martin Place and took hostage a group of twenty people for over 16 hours. The siege ended last night at 2am when police stormed the café to rescue the hostages. Three people lost their lives, including the gunman.

During the siege, two main hashtags were used. #Sydneysiege monitored all the movements and showed support to the victims – it was mentioned more than 712,500 times globally. The other hashtag #illridewithyou appeared yesterday afternoon, as a compassionate show of support for Muslims fearing racist backlash when commuting. The hashtag has since been mentioned more than 375,500 times.

Below is a list of the most retweeted tweets including one or two of these hasthags:

 

 

Our thoughts are with the families and friends of the two innocent hostages who lost their lives as well as all the other victims who were held hostage.

Facebook installs CTA page buttons Facebook has added several call-to-action buttons for page owners: book now, contact us, use app, play game, shop now, sign up and watch video. Dollar Shave Club, which has been using the functionality in beta, has said that it saw a 2.5x higher conversion rate in a three-week test, and that’s in a cutthroat market. You know, because they make razors.

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Facebook updates publishing and insights tools Facebook has added a set of new publishing tools and insights. The first is ‘interest targeting’, which allows pages to target content to subsets of fans who also ‘like’ other pages. Secondly, ‘post end date’ allows page owners to set a point when time-sensitive posts will disappear and, finally, there’s ‘smart publishing’, which means that popular links to your website will automatically show up in your fans’ News Feeds. For insights, the network has added URL-level reporting that shows when pages/influencers share a post and fixed a bug that was undercounting iOS traffic. Phew. That’s a lot of updates. Facebook updates search tools Facebook has made a couple of announcements about search. First of all, it’s updated Graph Search to make it easier to find specific posts; users can search, for example, the name of a friend and ‘wedding’ to see photos from the event.

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Secondly, the network announced that it’s dropped Bing as its primary search partner, ahead of plans for a rumoured new search tool. Facebook is currently not showing web results at all, using its search tool to focus on locating content from within the network.

Zuckerberg appears in live Q&A Mark Zuckerberg hosted a live Q&A last week, in which he answered questions about his plans for Facebook. The CEO discussed his reasons for opposing a ‘dislike’ button, plans to explore ways to express diverse emotions and the value of connecting with people on social media, amongst other things. If you want to find out his views on privacy, use of real names and pizza toppings, you can read the full transcript here.

Instagram and Twitter discuss the future Instagram announced last week that it has overtaken Twitter in terms of users – 300 million to its rival’s 284 million. It has also mentioned plans to bring in verified accounts and purge fakes, in line with an interview given by CEO Kevin Systrom in Adweek, where he discussed the platform’s future. Particularly notable were his ideas to bring Instagram to ‘everyone with a phone’ and explore ‘new areas of communication’, like Hyperlapse. Twitter’s response? Well, co-founder Ev Williams ‘doesn’t give a shit’ about who has more users. So there you go. He’d prefer we look at Twitter as its own product and discuss its impact on the world, arguing that Twitter is what they wanted it to be when they set out.

Twitter upgrades Tailored Audiences Twitter launched its Tailored Audiences product back in 2013. Don’t worry, we’re not just reporting that now. The platform has just updated the feature to include data from mobile apps, meaning that advertisers can target ads within Twitter based on data from other mobile apps. Smashing.

LinkedIn redesigns homepage LinkedIn has changed its homepage layout, placing analytics and News Feed at the front and centre. Don’t worry if you haven’t got it yet, it’s being rolled out globally as we speak. Or rather, as I type and you read. Hi.

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Ronald McDonald goes skydiving Big news, clown haters! Someone just got Ronald McDonald to jump out of a plane. Don’t worry, human lovers! It’s all part of a marketing stunt for McDonald’s, which posted the video on its Instagram page.

evian and We Are Social create outfit grids evian and We Are Social have worked together to promote the design of the new ‘Kenzo’ bottle, by posting ‘outfit grids’ across social media. You can see one of the rather satisfying tessellations below. evianOutfitGrid-20141210095557889

Auto Trader makes cars out of Lego Would you like your car to be made of Lego? Sorry, a model of your car. If so, get over to Facebook, Instagram or Twitter and post a picture using #DrivenByMe to enter the latest Auto Trader competition.

We Are Social creates #SecretSantaSacrifice for Age UK We Are Social has designed #SecretSantaSacrifice on behalf of Age UK, which asks people to replace the novelty office gift with a £5 donation to keep the elderly warm at Christmas. We Are Social’s own Charlie Cottrell discussed the campaign in the Drum:

No-one actually likes doing the office Secret Santa – it’s a mandated waste of £5 on novelty items that goes in the bin five minutes later. There are much better causes we could be spending our money on, one of which is making sure older people are warm this Christmas. Age UK is brilliantly set up to reach the most vulnerable people, and we hope that any support we can offer them will make a real difference to older people during the winter.

Boots bring #SpecialBecause to the physical universe High street pharmacist Boots has been encouraging social media users to nominate people who are special to them using the hashtag #SpecialBecause. It’s since taken to visiting these people in the real, non-online world and is sharing a set of 60-second videos.

Twitter goes loopy for breakfast cereal French Toast Crunch has returned! I’d actually never heard of it, because my parents wouldn’t let me have sugary cereal as a child, but then this isn’t all about me so maybe it’s time to move on. Twitter users had been campaigning for yonks, and have since taken to the network to say thanks… and ask for some other comebacks.