Tag Sleuth Blog

Social Media Hashtag And User Analytics Across Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and Vine

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Here’s a tutorial on making Vine video compilations

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Free Social Media Tools - Combining Videos To Make Compilations

We've added links to our free tools for making Vine and Instagram video compilations:

Vine: http://www.tagsleuth.com/about/how-to-combine-vines-into-a-video-compilation

Instagram: http://www.tagsleuth.com/about/how-to-combine-instagram-videos-into-a-compilation 

Twitter and Tumblr coming soon! 

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Bummer news from the twittersphere: “We’ve found effectively no correlation between social shares and people actually reading.”

Thanks, Chartbeat, for that lead balloon.

If most people aren’t reading, then how do we find the value in the medium as an organization?

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Tks for the shout. Check out our sister company Tag Sleuth.

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Introducing Tag Sleuth Alerts

Wouldn't it be nice if you were notified when something significant happened in a social media hashtag or user that you were monitoring?  In other words, rather than having to examine an archive of posts, it would be handy if the computer did that for you.

With this in mind, we are excited to announce Tag Sleuth Alerts.  This new feature will notify you via email when something significant happens in your archive, determined by triggers that you configure.

We offer three alert triggers -- more will be coming:

1. Profanity: We have a list of inappropriate language and any time a post uses one of these words, we will flag that post. We search the captions of photos (Vine, Instagram) and the text of posts (Twitter, Tumblr).   This is great for parents who want to monitors their kids social media but who don't want to wade through every post of their son or daughter.                          

2. Word Detect: Provide us a list of words, separated by commas, and we'll watch for those words and alert you if one is used. We search the captions of photos (Vine, Instagram) and the text of posts (Twitter, Tumblr). Let's say you're interested when someone tweets about a given topic or idea. This notification allows you to watch for that.                               

3. Influencer: We will alert you if a post comes in from one of your hashtags based on the number of followers that person has. By default, we set the threshold to 10,000, but you can configure it.  This is a great way to let you know if your hashtag just got picked up by, say, Oprah.

To add alerts to an active archive, click the "Off" link that appears next to your archive in the MY ARCHIVES page:

This will take you to the alerts page for that archive, where you can turn on/off different alerts and configure them.

You know that you have active alerts if the word "On" appears next to the archive.

We only send you one email a day, rolling up cumulatively all the alerts that matched your criteria.

We are really excited by this feature. It is a great example of having the computer do the work! Let us know feedback about your usage of this feature and of other alerts you'd like to see.                      

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Tumblr added an Embed button to individual blog posts (also known as permalink pages). Clicking “Embed” gives you the embed code to insert a post to any website that allows an HTML embed, including Tumblr pages.

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Bournemouth University Professor Uses Tag Sleuth For Social Network Analysis and Text Mining

One of the great features of Tag Sleuth is the ability to export social media data into Excel, such that it can be mined with other tools. This scenario is exactly what Dr. Nigel Williams of Bournemouth University is teaching his students to do, with the help of Tag Sleuth:

"Conducting research on the nature of stakeholder engagement in large scale undertakings (public construction such as railways, airports and infrastructure) and large scale events (the Olympics or the World Cup) is a challenge for researchers.  Traditional  techniques cannot easily evaluate the structure and content of these discussions. However, due to the significant level of public interest, these undertakings  generate a huge amount of social media postings that can be used to understand the structure and  content of these discussions.   My team at Bournemouth University have  launched a number of initiatives to apply this data in research and teaching activities.

"In the research domain,   we use data from social media to the nature of digital engagement in such large scale events and undertakings using a combination  of Social Network Analysis tools (Gephi) and Text tools (Discovertext). We’ve delivered our findings at a number of research conferences and have published book chapters, etc.  We’ve also received funding from the university for a project FestIM.

"For teaching, we provide course materials that students can learn to apply these techniques in their class projects and research.  We’ve used Tweet Archivist for the last two  years as it provides an easy to use approach to data collection. It’s also low cost, which works well for students who need to do twitter data collection for their dissertations. As social media has continued to develop, we’re seeking to expand our data collection  beyond Twitter and Tag Sleuth is ideal for our needs."

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Instagram Video Viewer

These days, you are as likely to find a video on Instagram as you are to finding a photo. And, unlike Vine, an Instagram video can actually be more than six seconds -- 15 to be exact. Given this we've enabled an Instagram video viewer in Tag Sleuth, such that you can watch all the videos from an Instagram hashtag in one place. And, if you like the Instagram video compilation, you can generate an .mp4 that you can download to your own machine and do with what you will: upload to YouTube, etc.

Here's an example of an Instagram video compilation of the hashtag #superbowl.

Pretty nifty!

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Download Instagram Photos Or Vine Movies As Zip File

A customer recently requested a download of their entire Instagram archive so they could have every photo in the archive on their local machine. We don't provide that service out-of-the-box, but we do have that capability as an add-on to your subscription for an extra fee. We can do the same for a Vine archive, so you can have all the .mp4s of each Vine in a single download.

Right now, we are set up to do this based on a hashtag. We also could create archives based on a user, if you wanted to download all the posts of a given user.

We also could create an archive of all Twitter images or Tumblr images as well.

If you are interested in this service, let us know at [email protected] and we'd be happy to set this service up for you and discuss pricing.

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Tag Sleuth Introduces Vine Viewer

We have added a feature to the site so you can now watch all the vines in for a given hashtag. We call it Vine Viewer. For example, here's a link to the Vine Viewer of an archive of 830 vines that have the hastag #CES.

What is nifty is that if you like the resulting Vine compilation, you can generate a single .mp4 of the vines and download it locally, which you can then share on YouTube, etc.

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Marketing Internship Opportunity - Digital Marketing And Social Media For A Hashtag Analytics Product - 2573928

Looking for a great paid internship at Tag Sleuth? Learn more about the Digital Marketing And Social Media For A Hashtag Analytics Product position right now!

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[Tumblr is] not a blog, it’s a social network. ‘They’re perceived as an alternative to Wordpress or a blogging platform [but] it’s an enormous social network. People read Tumblr like they read Twitter.’ (There are 60-80 million new posts per day.)

Tumblr, and Union Metrics CEO Hayes Davis  (via courtenaybird)

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We talked to Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp (david) about awesome new technology, how he built the platform and dropping out of school.

P.S. we asked an extra question for you at the end, Tumblr :)

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Eight different middle and high schools grilled our CEO as part of Code.org's Hour of Code program.

These kids are great. 

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Go middle schoolers!

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Vine Complition made by Tag Sleuth

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Easily Create And Download Vine Compilations With Combine Vine

Have you ever wanted to watch Vines all at once? Have you ever wanted to create a Vine compilation so you could upload it to YouTube? Well, we’ve just added a feature that takes the last 10 vines from any tag archive and allows you to generate and download a Vine compilation. Pretty cool! 

Here’s how it works:

Create a Tag Sleuth archive for a hashtag. When you are on the Vine archive page, you’ll see a link on the right that says Combine Vines.

Click the button! This will kick of a process that grabs the last ten vines and stitches them together into one video. It usually takes about one minute, so be patient! 

Once it completes, you can watch the compilation, tweet about it and, if you’d like, download the file for uploading to YouTube, further editing, etc.We make an ,mp4 for you in the cloud.

Here’s a video already made, that creates a Vine compilation for the hashtag #pikachu. We have a lot more features we want to add, like the ability to create a Vine compilation based on a Viner and the ability to pick and choose which Vines get added to the compilation. So, check back soon for more features!

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Tag Sleuth Offers 40% Discount On All Subscriptions

To celebrate the launch of Tag Sleuth and our redesign, we are offering a 40% discount on the product. Nice!  This means you can track across four social networks for only $14.99.  And, our non-recurring subscription prices have also been slashed:

To take advantage of this limited offer, sign up today! Not sure? Start a free three day trial, no credit card required.