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Tag: Facebook

Facebook News Feed Will Throttle Pages’ “Promotional” Posts

As of last week, it seems that Facebook has taken some more steps in tweeking their News Feed to focus more on businesses and using Facebook as a marketing platform.  As of the 14th of this month, users will see fewer “promotional” posts from Facebook Pages starting in January. In case there was any confusion […]

Like Facebook, Twitter Now Lets You Tweet From The Top Of Your Timeline

Twitter announced that it has moved its tweet box on the Twitter website to the top of timelines.  The company says that this should make it easier to tweet. It just got easier to Tweet on http://t.co/SlNTFacp9A. You can now compose new Tweets at the top of your home timeline. — Twitter (@twitter) November 5, […]

Facebook Embraces Anonymity With The Launch Of New ‘Rooms’ iOS App

Oh the days gone by of chat rooms in the internet of old.  How fun it might be to go back in time and return to these old forms of internet communications.  But wait a moment.  Is it true that Facebook has announced the launch of a new iOS app that allows users to interact anonymously […]

Is Facebook The New YouTube For Brands? More Marketers Opting Out Of Google’s Video Platform

For a while, YouTube has been a great place for brands to make their mark in their video marketing campaigns.  After all, what better place to put all your videos, commercials and whatnot than on a popular video streaming service like YouTube?  But according to Socialbakers, a social media analytics provider, more and more brands are […]

According To A Survey, Teens Are Fleeing Facebook; Instagram & Twitter Are More Popular

It seems like you first hear about reports and surveys that Facebook is becoming less popular with teens, and then you hear the next day that this isn’t the case.  Now we find yet another survey that contradicts the latter and falls in line with the first.  There is a survey done by Piper Jaffray, […]

Facebook Mobilizes The Like Button

At this years’s F8 Facebook developer conference, Facebook has officially rolled out the Like button for iOS and Android mobile app developers.  For quite a while, developers have wanted to be able to use the feature, and now it looks like their wish has been granted. Here’s a bit from the company’s blog post: “People […]

No More Promiscuous Newsfeed Experimentation, Facebook Lays Out Research Guidelines

Do you remember the psychological research that Facebook users were put through a few years ago?  Because everybody found out that Facebook had done this, formal complaints were issued  from the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).  Plus, people were none to happy.  Due to the issues that ensued from users discovering the news of what […]

Facebook’s Ad Network Challenge To Google Coming Next Week

We know that Facebook is pretty big.  So is Google.  But perhaps it’s true that we never expected to see Facebook rolling out a web-wide, cross-platform ad network that is set up to challenge the likes of the Google Display Network next week.  All this comes from the Wall Street Journal. This news was initially […]

Power Editor Updates Give Advertisers Better Previews & Import Options

About a week ago, there have been some changes that have been made to the Facebook Power Editor Interface that will do well in the hands of marketers.  For those who haven’t been in the know, the changes include a better preview pane for New Feeds ads, as well as a new bulk import option […]

The Marketer’s Guide to Facebook Graph Search

If you’ve been in touch with online reality at all, you’ve probably used Facebook, or at least heard of.  It’s pretty big.  There are a large number of people using the social media site everyday, and this is how many people keep in touch with others, as well get news on the latest news of […]