Tag: social network
Pinterest Adds Place Pins for Better Travel Planning
Pinterest added a new type of pin called Place Pins Wednesday, enabling users to map out the locations of all the items they share...
Honda Turns to Social to Argue for Its Soul
Who says Hondas have no soul?
Tired of hearing their reliable cars dismissed as rolling appliances, Honda and ad agency RPA launched the "Start Something...
Canada Proves a Mature Facebook Market with Slowed Growth Ahead
Facebook usage will inch up in Canada this year, where nearly 94% of social network users and almost half the total population already use...
Twitter Pulls Option to Let Anyone DM You
Just a few weeks after news circulated that Twitter was testing a feature that would allow users to receive direct messages (DMs) from anyone,...
No, Snapchat Hasn’t Passed Facebook in Daily Photos Shared (Yet)
Snapchat appears to be neck and neck with Facebook in one key metric: photos shared daily.
Snapchat users now share 400 million "snaps" — or...
The Complete Guide to Tumblr Etiquette
Tumblr, like most social media platforms, has a world all its own, complete with a specific etiquette. It can be a bit confusing for...
Just 11% of Americans Tweet Every Month
The country where the highest percentage of Internet users are active on Twitter may come as a suprise. It's Saudi Arabia. One-third of the...
YouTubers Freak Out Over New Comment System
YouTube recently upgraded its comment system with a slew of handy new features, chief among them threaded replies (hallelujah), improved sorting and more robust...
Video Is the Next Frontier for Social Advertisers
Video viewership and social sharing are closely intertwined, and marketers are looking to capitalize. Though social video advertising is still nascent, research shows that...
Social Media Weaves Its Way Through Customer Life Process
Consumers’ methods of discovering, researching and staying in touch with brands vary, but the reliance on social networks is a constant throughout the customer...
Mobile-First Networks Are Taking Over Social Media Around The World
Mobile-first social media sites have been riding the mobile wave. These sites have seen huge growth in user numbers recently and are major contenders...
Facebook warns users over Adobe breach
Facebook is watching the Adobe Systems data breach situation carefully and flagging its own users who may be affected. The social networking giant is...
The New Myspace Is Already Laying Off 5% Of Its Workforce
Less than a year ago Myspace gave itself a big reboot and became a hub for musicians and artists. But it looks like that...
Facebook Spreads Global ‘Humans of’ Photography Movement
It's a simple idea: Take a candid portrait of someone on the street, and tell an authentic story about his or her life.
The idea...
No, the Twitter IPO Is Not a Sign of a Tech...
Twitter’s stunning IPO success has sparked suggestions that we are in the middle of another tech bubble. With scant few significant tech IPO’s over...
Facebook Returns Home With New Boston Engineering Office
Facebook on Thursday announced the opening of its first engineering office in Boston, Mass., not far from where Mark Zuckerberg started the social network...
Twitter releases IPO price, to open trading tomorrow at $26
Twitter is now in the home stretch, as tomorrow it finally begins trading in the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker TWTR. And,...
LinkedIn Has More Monthly Unique Visitors In The US Than Twitter
Twitter and LinkedIn use different metrics to report activity on their sites, measuring monthly active users (MAUs) and monthly unique visitors (MUVs), respectively. This...
Enel #guerrieri. Beyond socials, more than social
More than 1,500 narrations collected on the storytelling platform. But the numbers do not reflect the importance of the people and their stories, the...
Mothers With Children Under 5 Most Active on Social Media, Study...
A new study by information-service company Experian claims that mothers with children under 5 are more active on social media than the general public.
These...
