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Guides to useing Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and much more.

Some tricks to identify fake Twitter accounts

"Learning networks come in a variety of different kinds. First, there is the personal variety, the personal learning network or PLN, which the individual person sets up and maintains, and provides him or her with  a view of or a lens on the outside world. Examples are the well-known social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, or more specialised social media, tied to your specific needs. The second kind of learning network takes the opposite perspective, not from the inside out but from the outside in. They are organisational learning networks and they try to cater for a more or less well delineated group of users.

"Norton Labs Ditto is the safe, easy way to back up and store all your Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail Stuff. With automatic weekly backups and the highest level of secure storage, your online Stuff is now safe and in your control, exactly as you want it."

"Social media monitoring platforms and sentiment analysis technologies can help you manage and make sense of the deluge of brand-relevant comments posted on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. But there's no silver bullet in technology."

New global research from e-Dialog reinforces this view, showing how email can drive interaction on social sites, and that brands' behaviour on Facebook and Twitter can make customers more receptive to emails. 

Timeline is also great for pulling in media from different sources. It has built in support for pulling in Tweets and media from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud. More media types will be supported in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as JSON.

Twitter's default search only goes back a week-if that-and often chokes on multiple keyword searches. Fortunately, there ARE many great alternatives, and I've included a chart comparing the nine top tweet search engines below. For example, Topsy lets you search all the way back to May, 2008. Here are links to each of the nine (plus a few extra ones),  in order of what I've found most useful to least useful for general tweet searches (however, some are powerful in other ways)):

Aggregator and trending info

Free Tweet backup service

Weekly statistics about your social media accounts.

Social Business trending info.

More than half UK pensioners now on Facebook 37.4 million UK adults use Facebook regularly 32.1 million UK adults use YouTube regularly 15.5 million UK adults on Twitter 7.9 million UK adults on LinkedIn 6.7 million UK adults on Flickr

"Check out Google Trends to see the latest trending stories, or conduct your own analysis. You can also follow us on Twitter for the latest data visualizations from the News Lab team, or visit us on Github to see our latest data releases for journalists."

"you can turn a Google search into an RSS feed using Google Alerts. Enter the search string (a preview of the results appears on the right), adjust Result type and How many, select Deliver to: Feed, and hit the Create Alert button."

Billions of people use social media everyday, all over the world. Once you start using networks like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube often enough, you start to notice that people share similar (and often rather annoying) online media habits, and can be categorised into common personality types.