They can also see who has similar interests, as indicated by Facebook Likes or LinkedIn groups.
Social media interaction at the scale of Facebook likes can be facile, superficial, and meaningless.
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The Facebook likes were fed into algorithms and matched with the information from the personality tests.
More than half of the executive respondents said that they considered Facebook likes a sign of engagement.
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Using that data, they developed a model that predicts personal attributes from Facebook likes with impressive accuracy.
YouTube views, Facebook likes and all manner of stats and numbers are on the market as well.
Among the most significant disconnects: companies equate Facebook likes and other now common social media behavior with engagement.
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Increasing Facebook likes is now a standard marketing tactic incorporated in most, if not all, integrated marketing campaigns.
Facebook likes, trails in the conversation with 185, 400 people talking about him.
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People can check out what their Facebook likes say about them by visiting YouAreWhatYouLike.com and logging in with their Facebook profile.
"Facebook likes have a meaning that we can use to understand the psychology behind what people do, " says David Stillwell, a co-author of the study.
And from that time until now, I find that the number of visits from even a lightly trafficked blog is markedly higher than many Facebook likes and Twitter retweets combined.
It has a wide range of data points including business licenses, inspection reports, Web site information, photos, Yelp reviews, and then a bevy of social signals such as Tweets, check-ins, and Facebook Likes.
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In advance of the event, social media management service HootSuite launched a Wrestlemania 29 Command Center, tracking social media conversations, including sentiment, Tweets, Facebook likes and number of mentions around the highly anticipated rematch.
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At the flick of a switch, the screens display real-time connected data like recent Foursquare check-ins, weather, Facebook likes and Instagrams, along with team stats and facts and more for each individual stadium at once.
At the flick of of its switches, the screens display real-time connected data like recent foursquare check-ins, weather, Facebook Likes and Instagrams, along with team stats and facts and more for each individual stadium at once.
The connections are primarily Facebook Likes.
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It is possible to predict potentially private traits such as a person's sexual orientation, political leanings, religion, intelligence, emotional stability and even if they abuse drugs or alcohol, just by analyzing their Facebook likes, according to a new study out of the University of Cambridge.
Campaigns can read your tweets and your Facebook "likes, " plus those of your friends.
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He said he was long skeptical of Facebook "likes" because it provided little clarity on how those users buy soda.
The study used 58, 000 volunteers who alongside their Facebook "likes" and demographic information also provided psychometric testing results - designed to highlight personality traits.
Jim Edwards wrote a post a few months ago on Business Insider about how Facebook generates Likes in ways other than a user clicking a Like button.
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With more than a million, Romney has the most Facebook "likes, " while Gingrich is the only candidate to top a million on Twitter (More on that in a bit).
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The following day, the New York-based trio saw a 5480% increase in Wikipedia page views, an 868% increase in new Facebook page likes, and an 1844% increase in new Twitter followers.
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Winners, determined by number of Facebook "likes" in four categories (individual, family and friends and community, support groups and facilities, or workplace) will receive recognition in several of the organization's publications.
Researchers looked at the Facebook profiles and likes, along with surveys and personality tests, for 58, 466 individuals.
That Facebook is inferring Likes from the sharing of links, and, on top of that, not applying sentiment analysis to determine if those links are being shared for positive reasons, breaks these expectations.
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By comparison, Yelp has 543 reviews with star ratings for the El Castillito taqueria in San Francisco, while Facebook has 97 likes (none from my friends), and a few scattered wall posts on a sparse unofficial landing page.
Melissa Kit Chow, a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, designed a garment that will only fuel our Facebook addiction: Chow's "Like-A-Hug" vest gives you a physical hug whenever one of your Facebook friends "likes" your status update.
GoPro boasts 222 million views on its YouTube channel and 4.7 million likes on Facebook.
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