Tag: Facebook
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Facebook 101: Native Scheduling vs 3rd Party Apps
Facebook lets you schedule posts up to six months in advance (this is called Native scheduling), so why all the fuss around third-party scheduling apps (like Swayy and DrumUp)? That’s because third-party apps come with several added features that you’ll find extremely useful as a social media marketer. What you can do on Facebook, and…
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Facebook’s Acquisition of WhatsApp the Biggest Internet Deal Since 2001
What started out as a casual meeting over coffee in the spring of 2012 has become the biggest internet deal since Time Warner and AOL’s $124 billion merger 13 years ago.
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16% of Social Media Users in the World Based Out of Europe
A new survey conducted by social media agency We Are Social pegs Europe’s share of social media usage at 16 percent globally. The survey also reveals that 19 per cent of all internet users are based out of the continent. Almost 540 million people in Europe go online while 300m have an active social media…
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New Research Points to a Facebook-Dominated Social Networking Trend Among U.S Adults
The Pew Research Center has found that social media continues to be a part of U.S adults’ daily lives. A whopping 73% spends time on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest. More people – 42% to be exact – are on multiple networks, a development driven by the proliferation of mobile apps and content marketing.
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Facebook’s News Feed Tweak Aimed at Delivering Quality News
Back in August, Facebook implemented an algorithm update aimed at encouraging managers to provide better-targeted updates and less low-value material. The social media giant seems to have made it a priority to limit low-quality posts from news feeds. This week, it announced an update to its news feed ranking, which will put more emphasis on…
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Snapchat Says ‘No’ to Facebook
Two-year old photo-messaging application Snapchat has rebuffed a buyout offer worth $3 billion from social media giant Facebook. Early this year, Facebook is said to have made an offer of $1 billion to acquire the company. That is twice the amount it paid for Instagram.
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Pinterest and LinkedIn Hot on the Heels of Facebook and Twitter in Content Sharing
That 75% of all online content is shared on Twitter and Facebook may not come as a big surprise to anyone. But here’s the big news: two well-known players are making rapid inroads into the content-sharing space. LinkedIn and Pinterest have reported robust sharing numbers; the world’s largest professional sharing network saw its content sharing…
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Hashtag Comes to Facebook!
One of the most popular features on Twitter – the hashtag, is now on Facebook. Although Facebook and Twitter are bitter rivals, it hasn’t stopped Facebook from capitalizing on the popularity of the hashtag. Facebook is not the only website to adopt the hashtag. A few months back, popular image sharing website – Pinterest, made…
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Facebook is Now Testing New Link Formats and Icons in News Feeds
Facebook appears to be adding new changes to the news feed and timeline frequently to be able to give users the best possible user experience. It is obvious that visual content is more interesting and eye-catching than plain textual content and the social networking giant is making a push towards improving the prominence of pictures…
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Music App from Twitter Not too Far Away
After acquiring the music service We Are Hunted, Twitter is looking to launch its own standalone music app for its users. So far, users have been able to open the page music.twitter.com and have been able to see the Twitter logo, a #music hashtag, a sign in button and a message that says that the…