Social Media

Smaller brands may as well say goodbye to Instagram

Instagram announced on Tuesday that it wants to start using algorithms to determine which posts are most interesting and relevant to...
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Instagram is planning to stop showing posts chronologically

It’s only natural for social networks to display posts in chronological order, which is what Instagram has always done, but this often results...
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Samsung’s attempt at a social media app is destined to fail

From time to time, Samsung will release a new product in an area that it’s not familiar with which will inevitably...
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Nielsen now factors social media shares into television ratings

Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding Twitter TV Ratings to include Facebook as well, and is renaming it to Social Content Ratings....
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Fresh Meat is an online dating service that’s only for attractive people

Building a new social network is incredibly difficult, even for the largest of companies, and it’s next to impossible for the smaller ones....
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Facebook is dead, long live Facebook Messenger

Okay, so Facebook isn’t actually dead, not even close, but if there’s one thing we learned from the recent end-of-the-year app...
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Europe is considering banning children from using social media

Few things are as potentially dangerous to children in developed nations as social media, and though many governments and organizations have...
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This new EFF website draws attention to social media censorship

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been focusing a lot more on privacy and security issues following the Snowden leaks, but the...
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Google Plus has been completely redesigned and refocused

Numerous articles have been written about what went wrong with Google Plus, so I won’t go into detail here, but suffice...
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Retailers ignore 83% of the complaints they receive on social media

Have you ever complained on a company’s social media account about an issue your having with their product or service? If...
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Instagram is taking aim at Snapchat and Twitter with this new feature

Curation is the name of the game nowadays, and ever the trend-follower, Instagram is trying its hand at curation with a...
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Who’s Down is Google’s latest attempt to succeed with social media

After fumbling into the world of social media with Google Plus, and then slowly retreating, Google is ready to try again,...
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Candidates Social Media

How social media will play its biggest political roll ever for the Presidency

It’s easy to say that social media is going to be a bigger player in this Presidential election than ever before....
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Pinterest wants to be your go-to destination for travel planning

Discovery and collection are what Pinterest is all about, and the Place Pins feature that the company introduced a couple of...
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Around 65% of American adults use social media nowadays

Social media is popular, can you believe it?! It’s so popular, in fact, that around 65% of the entire adult population...
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YouNow raises $15 million to expand its live streaming social network

Meerkat and Periscope are the only non-gaming live streaming apps of note at the moment, but YouNow wants to change that...
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