As it was with the retweet, the @ reply and the hashtag before it, the tweetstorm has become an officially support part of Twitter, and not just a user-initiated workaround. On December 12, Twitter unveiled a new feature for people to tether a number of tweets into what was dubbed as a tweetstorm, but what […]
Twitter is joining the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Youtube in publicly displaying how many views each video on its platform has received. The announcement was announced on Monday, December 11. According to a Twitter spokesperson, these view counts appear on both organic videos and video ads, but not on pre-roll ads. We’re adding view […]
Google has begun testing and possibly rolling out a new feature in search that displays a carousel with a list of answers directly within the search results snippets. It will show the main search results snippet, and right below it, a carousel of answers picked from the content on the page the snippet is linked […]
Now, when you browse your traditional News Feed, you will now have the ability to enter virtual reality Less a month since Marketing Land reported that Facebook was testing web-based VR within News Feed posts, the social network debuted examples of brands who have developed VR apps that people are able to interact with through Facebook’s standard […]
Twitter has officially doubled its character count. It hasn’t even been two months since the company tested extending tweets’ maximum length to 280 characters. On November 7, Twitter enabled the new length for all users. This new character limit will apply to tweets in languages except Korean, Chinese and Japanese, in which space isn’t as big […]
It looks like Google is rolling out the new curved mobile design that they’ve been testing for several months. A good number of searchers have reported seeing the curved design, and several of the folks at Search Engine Land have replicated, as I have. This new design is the first major redesign to the Google […]
There are a couple new features that are making their way to Twitter. The first will help with cornering the real-time market, and the second helps with the overall user experience. “Happening Now” will launch with sports events, making it easier to find tweets about evens happening in real time. Bookmarking, which is also called […]
Facebook is continuing their efforts to give people more context about what they read on the social network as an attempt to steam spread of fake news. A test that began on October 5, Facebook added context to article links appearing in people’s new feeds by attaching information about the publisher that’s pulled from sources like the publisher’s […]
One of the fist things you need to think about when it comes to the future of organic search, common considerations include the impending mobile-first index, machine learning, AI, natural language processing, voice search, site speed, HTTP 2, personalization and consumer behavior changes led by the Internet of Things and digital assistants. But during a Future of […]
Google is testing a new way to level AMP content in the mobile search results. Rather than using a gray AMP lightening bolt con with the AMP letters by it, a test by Google shows a blue lightening bolt icon with the word “instant” next to it. This was first spotted by @Jonny_J_, although when I […]