Every time Facebook tries out another Facebook Stories addition, a part of me does feel like its a bit Regina George. But Facebook is certain that Stories are the future of social sharing, and the way more users are heading – and it has the stats to prove that more people are, in fact, using Facebook Stories every…
After recently launching tags to signify manipulated media in tweets, Twitter is now also considering new labels for identified misinformation, with large tags on ‘harmfully misleading’ reports, and links to reference material to cross-check. As explained by NBC News: “In this version, misinformation or misleading information posted by public figures would be corrected directly beneath a tweet…
Facebook this week launched a new, mobile version of its Creator Studio tool, with a separate Creator Studio app to help better manage your Facebook Pages on the go. The new app will be able to manage and edit Page posts, view performance analytics and respond to messages – with the added capacity to manage multiple Facebook Pages through…
Increasing your Facebook reach can be a challenging and time-consuming task. In many ways, it’s both the starting point and the end goal of Facebook marketing. Your brand’s Facebook reach is the foundation upon which many of your other Facebook metrics — such as comments, likes, and impressions — are built upon. Without any Facebook…
While it may seem that the cards are definitely stacked against Facebook Pages, there are still ways to improve your Facebook reach organically — it just takes a little creativity. Build relationships and trust with your audience to boost your Facebook reach Lauren Scissors dropped a hint as to what type of branded content will…
In its early years, like many other social platforms, the Twitter algorithm presented content in a reverse chronological order that showed the freshest content first. As the user base and feature set of Twitter and these other social platforms grow, there’s too much content to keep up within a simple chronological order. That’s where the…
Snapchat is testing out a major new redesign which would expand the app from three to five definitively separated sections, and add a black navigation bar along the bottom of the screen. As reported by Casey Newton in The Interface, and as you can see in the above images, the new navigation bar would link to five sections. The…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees privacy-focused communications as the future of social networking, with messaging playing a key role – and WhatsApp, Facebook’s largest messaging platform, is central to that shift as WhatsApp celebrates two billion active users. And this week, the significance of WhatsApp has been underlined once again, with the messaging app reaching a new user…
If you go to tap on your favorite Google Chrome extension and it no longer works like it used to, it could be among the over 500 Chrome extensions removed by Google. This week, over 500 Chrome extensions removed by Google were listed due to concerns that they were redirecting users to malicious sites and…
In yet another example of the rising emphasis on social media as a political messaging tool, this week; Facebook updated its guidelines in order to make it compulsory for political candidates to disclose any partnerships with influencers who post memes or similar content on their behalf. On Instagram in particular, Facebook will now require that such…