Tag: social media

November 29, 2022

A month of Twitter’s new management passed and the blue bird icon hasn’t stopped making headlines. A tumultuous series of back and forths finally led to Musk’s takeover at the end of October, finally culminating in a $44 billion deal. […]

September 19, 2022

Pentagon officials have ordered a sweeping review of US information warfare operations conducted through social media platforms, The Washington Post reports, after Twitter and Meta both identified networks of fake accounts believed to be connected to the US military. Citing […]

August 25, 2022

While countries like Russia and China have been making headlines for years with their disinformation and propaganda campaigns on platforms like Twitter and Facebook, it turns out that the US and other Western countries have been playing the same game. […]

October 19, 2021

Instagram is kicking off a week of product reveals with the announcement of “Collabs,” a new feature that lets two users jointly share ownership of a single feed post or Reel. Tomorrow, it’s following this up by testing a new […]

September 2, 2021

The launch of Super Follows marked the beginning of the end for truly free content on Twitter, and the start of whatever Patreon-infused future lays ahead for the microblogging app. Supporting creators directly with monthly payments isn’t a bad thing, […]

July 2, 2021

Recently we covered a Twitter post by the head of Instagram where TikTok was mentioned as a primary motivator for social media platforms to improve and evolve. It doesn’t seem, however, that the Chinese-owned company will just sit and watch […]

July 1, 2021

After TikTok shook the social media market and fundamentally changed the name of the game, western companies quickly rushed in to grab a piece of the pie. As per usual, Instagram was quick to follow up with a similar feature […]

April 14, 2021

Facebook has published the latest episode in its new ‘Social Skills’ series, which aims to provide expert insights and tips to help social media marketers improve their approach, and maximize their results. The latest episode features Katie Marylander, the Director […]

December 18, 2020

Want to advertise on YouTube? Wondering how to create YouTube ads that work? To explore how to create YouTube ads that convert, I interview Tom Breeze on the Social Media Marketing Podcast. Tom is a YouTube ads expert and CEO […]

December 2, 2020

The company is reportedly letting some users create videos up to three minutes long. The previous limit was 60 seconds. On Wednesday, social media consultant Matt Navarra shared a screenshot of an update he received in the TikTok app. The […]

June 26, 2020

As demonstrations have been overtaking some places in the world, the way people protest is also changing exponentially, with the help of new technologies and innovative strategies. Think tech-savvy approaches and creative activism methods to make users feel safer than […]

July 24, 2019

LinkedIn users are being warned to beware emails reportedly coming from the site following a rise in recent message scams. A report from KnowBe4 found that scammers are harnessing emails from some of the world’s most popular social media sites […]

November 20, 2018

Instagram has just unveiled three new functions guaranteed to please both retailers and shoppers this holiday season. The photo and video sharing platform just announced three ways that consumers can find new products, buy from their favorite brands, and even […]

August 12, 2017

There isn’t always a good reason to buy software. Whether you’re part of a small-business, or you don’t need that particular tool on a daily basis, most of the times you probably want to hold on to your budget for […]

January 19, 2017

Regardless of whether social networks’ creators anticipated their overwhelming success or not, these digital platforms are now a hit in digital marketing. Due to the huge numbers of visitors, social platforms generate important ad revenue figures. In what we may […]

October 7, 2016

Virtual reality may seem like the ultimate isolation experience, but according to Facebook and Oculus, it doesn’t have to be that way. In fact, it can be the quite opposite. “Virtual reality is the perfect platform to put people first,” […]

August 23, 2016

Facebook has made no secret of its love for video, challenged only perhaps by its affection for bots. The re-creation of Facebook as a video platform is well underway: Facebook Live experiments abound, it’s trialling what are basically 15-second ad […]

August 5, 2016

My Journalism professor used to say: “If people want garbage, then garbage they shall get.” Well, clickbait is a form of the garbage he was referring to. We could probably track down the origins of these types of articles back […]

May 31, 2016

It feels like we were facing the end of print only years ago, but the time may be ripe to begin lamenting the end of the website. After the dominance of URLs, we’re entering the platform era where more design […]

May 17, 2016

Graph databases are an 18th century concept with a host of modern applications. Used for tasks as diverse as dating sites and fraud detection, graph technology works by looking at relationships, not just data. But the idea behind them – […]