Twitter tests 280 character tweets
Twitter has said it’s testing 280 character tweets with a limited number of users.
Is it going to help, or will we all just want more and more?
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Up to 87% of social shares go unattributed, according to one study
Because a large number of shares go through Slack, WhatsApp, read later apps, Facebook messenger, Twitter/LinkedIn, email and email, they go unattributed.
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Facebook to launch ‘Aloha’ – video chat and smart speaker
Source reported to Bloomberg News that Facebook, in another push to b
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Facebook’s changed its news feed algo so that faster loading pages will rank higher
Facebook is going to rank faster loading pages higher in the newsfeed than a sluggish loading page, according to the latest developer news.
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Snap eats a 2.2 billion loss, disclosing sharply slowing user growth
Is the party already ending before is started for snap?
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Pinterest and PPC
You’ve heard about buyable Pins, right? Now Pinterest wants to kick it up another notch with PPC.
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350,000 Fake Twitter Accounts Discovered in One Single Fake Network on Twitter
Researchers looking into the extent and intentions of fake accounts on Twitter have discovered vast networks of fake accounts – one of them containing 350,000 members. One of the researchers, Dr.
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Google has another go with Google+
Google continues to mull over Google+ and has announced it’ll be adding Events, and what it describes as, “its time to say goodbye to classic Google+ on the web, which we’ll be turning down on Janu
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Farewell to Vine
Twitter has decided to discontinue Vine, the quirky mobile app that allowed people to share short, 6 second loops of video.
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Comments Get AMP’d Up
Armchair commenters of the world, rejoice – Disqus is bringing AMP support to comment sections everywhere.
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URLs and Photos No Longer Count Towards the Character Limit on Twitter
A few months ago, Twitter was talking about pushing its character limit out to 10,000+. There was a huge debate over how essential the character limit is to the essence of Twitter.
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Facebook Messenger its own platform, Twitter + Foursquare join forces, and more
With all the talk of Mobilegeddon and the doorway page update, not a lot of people have their ear to wall of the social media office. There is actually a lot happening.
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Facebook’s new Legacy feature
As of last week, Facebook implemented a new “Legacy” feature. This feature lets you choose a Legacy Contact who can take over the account if something is to happen to you.
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Tweets Now a Part of Google SERPs in Realtime
Twitter has given Google access to it’s API so now tweets will be able to appear in search results in real time.
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How to Prevent Social Media from Being a Huge Time-Suck
When it comes to small business, almost every day someone is pitching them on the value and importance of social media.
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Customer “selfies” prove to be assets for brands
“Selfies” can be extremely valuable to a brand.
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Are you a “guy” brand? Might want to revisit Pinterest
Pinterest has long been thought of as a network with a very strong female user-base but in an effort to expand they’re trying hard to capture the male demographic and become a social platform with
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Twitter buys Indian mobile marketing start-up ZipDial
Twitter recently purchased Indian startup ZipDial, which helps to build brand equity through on going mobile engagement.
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YouTube to host its own Superbowl Halftime Show
The Superbowl Halftime Show is at the point where it (arguably) overshadows the actual game, with the performers and ads discussed long before and after the big day.
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How Social Media Can Elevate Your Marketing Automation
Over the past two or three years, full-power marketing automation has finally become available to businesses of all sizes.
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