5 Blossoms From The Blog Tree

Oh, snap! It’s another edition of “5 Blossoms From The Blog Tree” where each week we spotlight five must-read posts from bloggers listed on The Blog Tree. This week: the rise of the “Twintern”, the kids are not all right, YouTube gets a facelift, “to give or not to give?”, and standing on the thin edge of the wedge with Quora and Instagram.

• Paul Dunay has an OMG moment. Over at Buzz Marketing for Technology he questions the sanity of hiring an intern to handle your brand’s Twitter handle.

• Scott Monty ponders Facebook’s new “don’t call it email” messaging system at The Social Media Marketing Blog, and is saddened to learn teens can’t be bothered with crafting subject lines.

• 100,000 survey respondents can’t be wrong. Alexia Tsotsis explains the origins of YouTube’s new look on TechCrunch.

• Should you reward your brand’s fans for their advocacy? Joseph Jaffe and Zuberance CEO Rob Fuggetta debate the issue at JaffeJuice.

• Brian Solis talks about how Instagram and Quora managed to employ a “thin edge of the wedge” strategy to make noise in an overcrowded space.