Social Network "Game of Thrones" (Video)

As social media matures, the different networks are marking their territory — each is putting up higher walls to make it harder to crosspost and harder to blend profiles. This jockeying for dominance between LinkedIn, Facebook, Google and Twitter is becoming a bit like … “Game of Thrones,” the violent HBO series.

Based on a post that Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes wrote about the coming Cold War of social networks, the social media management service put out a new ad:

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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