Social Media
Learn the latest news and trends on the most popular social networks and how to reach and engage your audience with social media marketing best practices.
YouTube Videos Will Soon Be Available Offline In India
Google has just launched Android One in India, which is a program designed to bring smartphones to the remaining five billion people that don’t have...
Kevin Rose, Founder of Digg, Launches New Photo Sharing App Called ‘Tiiny’
Silicon Valley veteran, Kevin Rose, launched a brand new iOS app this morning called Tiiny. Tiiny lets you share thumbnail-sized photos or GIFs to a...
Facebook Is Using User Feedback To Show Better Ads
There are millions of ads that are eligible to be shown in News Feed every day from more than 1.5 million active advertisers on Facebook,...
Twitter Officially Introduces The ‘Buy’ Button
Just a couple of weeks ago we reported that Twitter was strongly rumored to be gearing up to introduce a ‘buy’ button that could be...
YouTube Converts More Customers Than All Other Social Networks [STUDY]
VentureBeat reports that, when it comes to paid advertising on social media platforms, YouTube is king. YouTube is the clear winner in a few key...
How Social Media Automation Can Save You Time and Money
Not too long ago, the extent of most small businesses’ online strategies involved deciding what their website should look like. Now there are far more things...
Pinterest Goes Native with Advertising for Brands and Businesses
The fastest rising online social network is quickly becoming the Internet’s most promising platform for marketing and advertising. Pinterest, the network that describes itself as...
Facebook Introduces New Tools For Page Owners To Promote Their Events
There are 400 million people around the world using events on Facebook every month, the company stated in an announcement. Nearly 30% of all those...
3 Ways to Create a Hashtag Monitoring Dashboard
I’ve always loved playing with hashtags. I can proudly say I was an early adopter (I can’t say the same about Facebook but I do love...
What Really Happens When Someone Clicks Your Facebook Like Button
Funny, we’ve had the Facebook Like button along the side of every Buffer blog post for the past several years. And I don’t think I’ve ever...
Twitter Opens Up Its Analytics Dashboard To All Users
It has been a good news day if you love social media analytics. First, Pinterest introduces a new analytics platform, and now Twitter opens up...
Pinterest Introduces A New Analytics Platform For Business Users
Pinterest often hears from businesses who change their product and marketing strategies based on insights learned on the platform, the company stated in an announcement....
Instagram’s New Hyperlapse App Lets You Turn Videos Into Time Lapses
Instragram stated in an announcement today that one of their priorities has always been to provide users with “simple yet powerful tools that let people...
Facebook Cracks Down On Clickbait With An Update To The News Feed
Facebook recently announced some some improvements to its News that promise weed out posts that users don’t want to see anymore because they’re too “spammy”....
Twitter To Team Up With Stripe To Insert A ‘Buy Now’ Button Into Tweets
In January, Re/code reported that Twitter and Stripe were in talks to work together on something but nothing had been finalized at that time. Sources...
Instagram Becomes A Serious Business Tool With A Suite Of Useful New Features
Instagram says inspiring and empowering brands to create beautiful imagery that engages its 200 million members is something the company is always striving for. It’s...
Someone Tied Fines to Yelp Reviews
The vast majority of Yelp users visit the site when they have money to spend. That’s a key finding from a Nielson study funded by...
Why Your Facebook Campaign Doesn’t Work (And What You Can Do to Fix It)
Facebook is the future of Internet advertising. Or so you might have heard. While it seems that everyone else’s ads are generating revenue, your ads...
Twitter’s Vine Now Allows You To Import Existing Videos, Plus New Editing Features
Twitter’s Vine, the popular six second video sharing service introduced two powerful new features today — advanced video editing and the ability to import existing...
Twitter To Start Showing You Tweets From People You Don’t Follow
Prepare yourself to start seeing tweets in your timeline from people you don’t follow. A change to Twitter’s timeline is going to start pulling in...
How to Build a Social Online Community: An Interview with Katy Keim
As part of our SEJ interview series, I recently caught up with Katy Keim of Lithium to discuss how to build online communities. In the...
Ask The Writers: Is The LinkedIn Publishing Platform Worth It?
I’ve done two posts so far as part of our “Ask The Experts” series on Panda 4.0/Payday Loan 2.0 Update and then a followup a few...
4 Ways Social Media is Utilized for Social Good
Over the last few years, social media has had a huge impact in our everyday lives. It has completely changed the way we engage the world,...
Facebook Introduces Cross-Device Reporting For Facebook Ads
Facebook has announced the launch of cross-device reporting for Facebook ads. For the first time, advertisers will be able to see how people are moving...
Promoted Video Comes To Twitter, Upload And Distribute Native Video On Twitter
Today, Twitter announced a beta test of new Promoted Video ad units. Twitter has been experimenting with these new ads for the past few months,...
Twitter Reveals How Many Active Users Are Bots, The Number May Be Higher Than You Think
Twitter revealed how many of its monthly active users are bots in a report just filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The report indicates...
Facebook Bans Like-Gating, No More Incentivizing Users To Like Pages
Facebook recently published a small but important update on their developer blog where they effectively put the ban on like-gating content. According to Facebook themselves,...
18 Social Media Strategy Tips for Success from the Experts
Here’s how 18 entrepreneurs used the power of a well-developed social media strategy to benefit their businesses.
Pinterest Messaging Arrives, Send Private Messages With Other Pinterest Users
Over two million pins are sent out every day, Pinterest said in an announcement. In an effort to get more conversations started around those pins,...
Twitter To Ramp Up Their Image Search Capabilities With Acquisition Of Madbits
Twitter looks to be ramping up its image search capabilities, if the acquisition of one of a rising startup in the field of image search are...