Tell me EVERYTHING about you: What’s next in Quantified Self? + MORE

I get up every day, put on my jeans and walk to the kitchen to get breakfast. Already, I’m being tracked by my Fitbit One, which is logging every step I take, every staircase I climb and every mile I walk.
In the kitchen, I realise that I’m out of milk so I walk 500 steps to the local shop. Now not only is Fitbit tracking me, but Google is too, thanks to Latitude running on my phone, collecting a log of every single place that I go…

This week on Sprout Insights we tackled guides for Facebook, Twitter, and to help you better reach your customers with the social media tools that make a difference.
Check out our articles below to find out more about each one and how they can help you with your social media goals. And check in every day to Sprout Insights for more how to guides and breaking social media news…

Need a little weekend reading?
We’ve compiled our top ten Twitter stories of the week, which includes a look at what happens in the world of social media every 24 hours, a brief history of social media (1969-2012), new assistance from Twitter for when you’re composing a tweet with a hashtag, a look at the anatomy of a tweet and a study that reveals how Twitter is helping to change written language… even if Twitter users are the worst spellers in social networking…

Now that the dust has settled around the Instagram Video launch, we thought it was high time to take a good look at the photo-sharing phenom’s new video venture. Does it live up to Vine? Is it better? Or does it just ruin the Instagram experience we’ve all come to know and love?
Engadget’s Brian Heater — kindly filling in for John Biggs — and I discuss all this and more on this episode of Fly or Die…

SpaceX has released video footage of its Grasshopper rocket’s latest test flight — and as you’ll see, the reusable vehicle is reaching new heights, quite literally
In the clip, the rocket soars to 1,066 feet — a record for the platform — hovers for a moment, then descends, balanced on its own exhaust, back to its launch pad for a precision landing…

Do you want to share short visual stories with your fans? Have you experimented with Instagram video? They recently unveiled a video feature for their mobile app that transforms their already-powerful photo sharing network into a multimedia dynamo! Combine that with the fact that Instagram offers ease of sharing on Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, and the […