Shots of Me, the Justin Bieber-backed selfie app for iOS, launched today. Despite Bieber doubters’ derision, the app could actually serve a variety of useful and fun purposes–and not just in terms of marketability to high schoolers. The app’s intentional lack of commenting functions, the frosty-screened button bars, the emphasis on human interest rather than […]
You might not choose to admit it, but you probably feel a little bit warm and fuzzy inside when people like your Instagram posts. Hey, that’s natural. But if you want to embrace it, then new research suggests that there are a few ways you can improve your chances of getting a like.
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Twitter‘s per-click ad value has increased by 300% since last year, an Adobe report shows. In Q3 2012, revenue-generating websites earned on average $0.11 for every link click-through from Twitter; in Q3 2013, that figure was $0.44. That revenue-per-visit (RPV) is by far the highest-percentage per-click revenue growth for the period for any social network, […]
We’ve all heard people long for Facebook’s lawless pre-parent days. Back then, it was anything goes—a land filled with photos of keg stands without consequence and all the cussing you could muster. Those people are wrong. Facebook is better with moms.
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Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all the others once seemed to have our interests at heart; now that’s looking a little more questionable; in the future, who knows where it’ll end? Problem is, subtle privacy changes creep up on us in such a way that we’re practically oblivious to them.
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With its Nov. 15 IPO less than a month away, Twitter recently explained its latest revenue model additions. They include lead generation, traffic conversion and TV targeting. Having been in business since 2006 but yet to show a profit in any year since, Twitter is under pressure from the investing community to show why its […]
Twitter is changing the way direct messages work. In the past, Twitter required two people to follow each other for direct messages to be exchanged in either direction; now, users have the option to change settings so that any of their followers can send them a direct message, without having to follow them back.
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Facebook Home has been updated, with the new socially-enabled homescreen for Android smartphones now pulling in Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram content in addition to media from your friends list. The update, which hit the Google Play store today, helps crack open Facebook Home from its relatively insular beginnings to a more encompassing social-first platform. […]
Path has today introduced a premium, pay-for service. Path 3.2 for Android and iOS now allows users unlimited access to the network’s stickers, camera filters and all manner of other things for a monthly or annual fee.
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Twitter has become serious business, and official partner Topsy’s business is to take it very seriously. The company has just announced a major milestone in the company’s history that is sure to rock your socks off, doing something that not even Twitter itself could, or wants, to do: indexing and searching for each and every […]
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