Social Media
Learn the latest news and trends on the most popular social networks and how to reach and engage your audience with social media marketing best practices.
Facebook Bans Like-Gating, No More Incentivizing Users To Like Pages
Facebook recently published a small but important update on their developer blog where they effectively put the ban on like-gating content. According to Facebook themselves,...
Pinterest Messaging Arrives, Send Private Messages With Other Pinterest Users
Over two million pins are sent out every day, Pinterest said in an announcement. In an effort to get more conversations started around those pins,...
Twitter To Ramp Up Their Image Search Capabilities With Acquisition Of Madbits
Twitter looks to be ramping up its image search capabilities, if the acquisition of one of a rising startup in the field of image search are...
Embed A Tweet Within A Tweet On Twitter For Desktop
A feature that recently became available on Twitter’s mobile apps is now available on desktop, which is the ability to embed a tweet within a...
Instagram Officially Launches Snapchat Competitor Bolt Outside The US
Last week, information leaked that Instagram may be working on an app called Bolt that appeared to be a Snapchat competitor. Today, that information was...
Facebook’s Daily Active Users Are Up By 19 Percent
Facebook just released their Second Quarter 2014 Financial Summary, included in the report are a lot of positive statistics for the social media giant. Most...
Instagram May Be Working On A Snapchat Competitor, Called Bolt
A select number of Instagram users have received notifications prompting them to download a new ‘one tap photo messaging’ app called Bolt. According to user...
New Facebook Ad Targeting Lets You Target Users By Device
Facebook announced an update to their ad targeting options that will let you reach people on specific mobile device models In order to get high...
LinkedIn Experiments With Location-Based Features To Connect Nearby Professionals
VentureBeat reports that LinkedIn is experimenting with location-based features similar to those offered Foursquare. This information comes courtesy of LinkedIn designers Mauroof Ahmed and Moses...
Twitter Is Making Direct Messaging More Private And User Friendly
Twitter announced on Friday that changes are coming to their direct messages are sent and stored across the network. Twitter’s support account made the announcement via...
Save Facebook Posts, Read Them Later: New Feature Announced
Today, Facebook announced the addition of a new feature that will allow users to save items found while browsing Facebook for later viewing. Every day,...
Follow What Interests You With New Pinterest Category Pages
Today, Pinterest announced an update to its category pages. Each category page now has a whole new selection of related interests to browse through. You...
Google+ Drops Real Name Policy, Promises To Smash Internet Trolls
Google admits that when they launched Google+ over three years ago there were a lot of restrictions on what name could be used on your...
LinkedIn Launches New App To Encourage Users To Stay Connected
LinkedIn recently launched a new app for iOS called Connected, which is designed to encourage users to more frequently reach out to others within their...
Twitter Offers Data-Backed Tips On How To Engage With Millennials
Twitter recently released a report sharing some key insights into how millennials prefer to engage on Twitter. In addition, the report also provides data-backed tips...
How Does Google Index Tweets? A Study by Eric Enge of Stone Temple Consulting
Eric Enge and the Stone Temple Consulting team embarked on a quest to find out: How does Google index tweets? Their findings, which were released...
Facebook Is Helping Advertisers Reach Previously Unreachable People, On Any Device
Facebook reports that roughly 7 out of every 10 people in the world use devices less sophisticated than a smartphone to access the Internet, like a...
Vine Highlights Popular Videos With New Loop Counts
Have you ever wondered how many times a Vine video has been viewed? Now you will see loop counts on videos to indicate how many times...
Google To Shut Down Its First Social Network, Orkut
It was announced today that Google intends to shut down its very first social network, Orkut. As of September 30, 2014, Orkut will no longer...
Twitter Offers Mobile App Promotion To All Advertisers
Today, Twitter announced that they’re going to begin offering mobile app promotion to all advertisers after seeing strong results during a beta test earlier this...
Facebook Introduces Multi-Product Ads And Enhanced Custom Audiences
This week, Facebook announced two new advertising enhancements that designed to make remarketing on Facebook even more effective. The enhancements include the introduction of multi-product...
Buffer Launches ‘Daily’, An iOS App For Discovering And Sharing Content
Buffer, the makers of the popular social media scheduling tool of the same name, launched a new iOS app called Daily. When I got the...
Facebook Releases New Version Of Pages Manager For iOS and Android
Facebook announced on their Facebook For Businesss blog that they have released an updated version the Pages Manager application for iOS and Android. Facebook Page...
Facebook To Improve Rankings Of Videos That Are Uploaded Directly
Twice as many watch videos on Facebook now compared to six months ago, Facebook executives said in an announcement today, which is why there’s about to...
Snapchat’s Most Popular Feature Isn’t Actually Snaps
The Verge reports that Snapchat’s most popular feature is no longer self-destructing, private snapshots. On the contrary, its most popular feature is actually the most...
#HOWTO: Use Twitter Search Like a Pro
If you want to use Twitter search like a pro, you need to know all the ways that you can use their unique search engine...
LinkedIn Releases A New iOS App For Job Seekers
Today, LinkedIn released a new app called LinkedIn Job Search which is now available on iOS in the US. Using the new app, users can...
Twitter Now Supports Animated GIFs: Why This Is Good For Marketers
Twitter made an announcement today that many of us have all been waiting for: You can now share and view animated GIFs on Twitter.com and...
Facebook Ads Improve The Performance Of Paid Search Campaigns, According To New Study
Today, Facebook released the results of a study commissioned by the company that analyzes the effects of Facebook ads on paid search campaigns. The study...
Facebook Officially Launches Slingshot, A Snapchat Competitor
Last month we reported that Facebook was said to be working on photo and video messaging app that will be a direct competitor to the wildly...