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That’s where a growth hacker named Josh Elman came in. Poring over the stats, he and his team of twenty-five growth hackers (crazy, right?) noticed that when a user manually selected five to ten accounts to “follow” or “friend” on the first day, the user was significantly more likely to stick around.

reputation, good and bad, than most focus groups can. Monitoring the social web and the Open Data derived from it can be a primary source of marketing intelligence.

There are four primary uses of social media for business: Monitoring and research, responding to customers, amplifying messages, and establishing thought leadership.

Whereas in the recent past the internet was organized around data, it is now, as a result of Facebook, organized around people.