Amazon Just Took A Page Out Of Facebook And Twitter's Brand Manual [THE BRIEF]
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Amazon just unveiled brand pages for marketers and according to Adweek, "You no longer need to wonder what it would look like if Facebook and Pinterest had a baby." But Amazon also seems to have been inspired by Twitter on the new pages. Brands can now act as publishers by creating posts, but posts are capped at 140 characters. While brands can't cross-post their musings to Twitter, they can post it to Facebook.
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