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Facebook and Instagram testing new feature to cross-post stories to both apps
Instagram and Facebook are testing a new feature that would further deepen the integration between the two platforms. As reported by The Verge, Facebook is testing the ability to bring Instagram stories directly to Facebook stories. The report explains th
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Facebook tests linking your FB account to your news subscriptions | TechCrunch
Facebook is testing a new feature that could help news publishers create a better experience for paying subscribers on the social network. The idea is that when Facebook identifies a subscriber from one of its publisher partners, that subscriber will be i
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Instagram will make suspicious accounts verify their identities | Engadget
Instagram is taking new steps to root out bots and other accounts trying to manipulate its platform.
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Twitter is surveying users on what features they’d want from a subscription - The Verge
Twitter is surveying some users to ask about potential features on a possible paid subscription version of Twitter, which could add the option to retract tweets, post longer videos, or remove ads entirely.
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Twitter faces 48-hour boycott over anti-Semitic posts by rapper Wiley | Fortune
The boycott followed complaints that Twitter was too slow to remove offensive material, some of which was also posted to Instagram.
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Twitter says it's looking at subscription options as ad revenue drops sharply
Twitter is actively exploring additional ways to make money from its users, including by considering a subscription model, CEO Jack Dorsey said Thursday. The move comes as Twitter suffers a sharp decline in its core advertising business.
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Twitter admits hackers accessed DMs of dozens of high-profile accounts | TechCrunch
Last week’s hack of over 100 very high-profile Twitter accounts did in fact expose the direct messages of many of those accounts, the company admitted today — including those of an elected official in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders. The attack saw numerou
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Twitter is working to unlock accounts it locked 'proactively' after hack | Engadget
The company says hackers didn’t access users’ passwords
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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook will allow users to turn off political ads
Facebook has come under criticism for allowing political ads to contain false statements. Now, Mark Zuckerberg says that users will be able to turn them off.
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Twitter is working on a way for people to request a blue checkmark, again
Twitter is bringing back a feature it had to kill after it was misapplied to a neo-Nazi.
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Facebook will verify identities for suspiciously popular accounts | Engadget
Facebook is now verifying IDs for profiles that have both suspicious behavior and posts that quickly go viral.
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Instagram Will (Finally) Pay Influencers | WIRED
The company is rolling out new ways for its creators to make money—and they might sound familiar.
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Twitter is testing settings that let you choose who replies to your tweet
The settings could let you allow only people you follow or mention to participate in conversations on the platform.
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Twitter notifies users that it’s now sharing more data with advertisers - The Verge
Twitter removed a privacy feature from its data-sharing settings that let users opt out of sending advertising measurement and engagement data to its partners.
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Pinterest shares jump as company issues early first-quarter guidance
Pinterest said that it hasn't seen much exposure to the advertising segments most hurt by the coronavirus pandemic, including travel, automotive and restaurants.
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Facebook’s less cluttered desktop redesign is more widely available starting today - The Verge
Facebook is rolling out the overhauled version of its desktop site. The new design places a heavier emphasis on two of Facebook’s most critical features — events and groups — and users can try it now before it rolls out officially later this year.
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How to create a Twitter List (and join others)
Use Twitter Lists to clean up your timeline.
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Why You Really Only Need 1,000 Fans To Be Successful
You don't need millions of fans to make a six-figure income through social media.
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Facebook Messenger is getting a much simpler new design
Facebook Messenger is removing its Discover tab starting next week, TechCrunch reports, after pledging to do so in August of last year. The removal means chatbots and Instant Games are gone, making Messenger more streamlined and simple in the process.
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Instagram Tests Reverse-Chronological 'Latest Posts' Feature
If you're annoyed by Instagram's algorithmic feed, there's good news. Instagram appears to be testing a new feature that gathers posts and displays them in reverse-chronological order.
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Four Easy Yet Powerful Social Media Strategies to Grow Your Audience in 2020
Four Easy Yet Powerful Social Media Strategies to Grow Your Audience in 2020
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3 Strategies to Revive And Grow Your Facebook Business Page
Business pages are still valuable, but the way to leverage them has changed.
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The FTC Is About to Crack Down on Influencer Ads on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube | Inc.
A new review is likely to result in stricter rules and increased enforcement.
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Instagram DMs come to the web
Instagram is testing out direct messages from the web.
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The Three-Step Social Media Marketing Machine
Social media marketing success boils down to three simple steps.
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12 social media trends to watch in 2020
As we close this decade down, there’s no doubt that social media will play a growing role in our lives for the foreseeable future.
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Twitter blocks animated PNGs to keep trolls from using them to trigger seizures
Twitter will no longer animate PNG files after trolls hijacked the Epilepsy Foundation's handle and hashtags last month to send potentially seizure-inducing ima...
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Twitter rolling out redesigned iPad interface with multiple columns, more
Twitter is rolling out an update to the official Twitter for iPad app that brings a much-needed interface redesign. With today’s update, Twitter for iPad now better takes advantage of the added screen real estate available on the iPad. As first noted by A
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How Facebook learns what you buy at physical stores to show you ads
Facebook learns about what users are buying in order to serve them ads that reflect what they're likely to spend money on.
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Reddit’s monthly active user base grew 30% to reach 430M in 2019 | TechCrunch
In a year-end retrospective released this morning, Reddit says its user base grew 30% this year to reach 430 million monthly active users, as of the end of October. Its users also contributed 199 million posts, 1.7 billion comments and 32 billion upvotes,
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Facebook lets you get rid of those annoying notification dots
On iOS you can customize Facebook's shortcut bar to remove sections you don't use.
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Twitter exec teases possible major changes coming in 2020
The floated ideas could fundamentally change how retweets work on Twitter, and that's not all.
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Instagram test helps you choose people to unfollow
Groups would help you cut users you rarely see in your feed.
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Google And Facebook Introduce Four New Features Specifically For Small Businesses
Google, Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Messenger, Small Business
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Pinterest says AI reduced reported self-harm content by 88% | VentureBeat
Pinterest announced that it's using AI and machine learning to reduce the visibility of self-harm content on its platform.
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Instagram launches Create mode with On This Day throwbacks | TechCrunch
Instagram has finally turned Throwback Thursday into an official feature. It’s part of the new Instagram “Create” mode that launches today in Stories, bringing the app beyond the camera. Create makes Instagram a more omni-purpose social network with
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Twitter says it unintentionally misused user data for advertising
Users saw adds targeted based on email and phone numbers provided for security.
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Facebook will begin hiding likes on Friday - CNET
The social media giant will test hiding the number of likes, reactions and views that posts get.
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Twitter now lets all iPhone users pin favorited lists to the timeline - 9to5Mac
After opening up access for the home timeline Lists feature to let users more easily follow their interests earlier this summer, Twitter is rolling out access for all iOS users today. Twitter shared the news in a press release: On iOS starting September 2
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Facebook will shut down Group Stories on September 26th
If you didn't find yourself using Facebook's Group Stories, you're not the only one. The social network has confirmed a report from commentator Matt Navarra th...
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Influencer Fraud Costs Businesses Billions but Here's What You Can Do to Avoid It | Inc.
Hype isn't a good reason to invest in marketing tools without thoroughly checking them out.
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How Is Influencer Marketing Changing?
How is influencer marketing changing? This question was originally answered on Quora by Steve Oriola.
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Instagram: Here’s How to See Everyone You’ve Blocked – Adweek
You have the option to unblock them.
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Twitter's experiments pay off as user numbers grow - CNET
More people are flocking to the site on a daily basis.
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Big brother? Instagram will now ask you to think twice before posting profanities
Instagram today released two new features with a view to curb bullying on the platform - but it remains to be seen how effective they are.
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Facebook will start taking a cut of fan subscriptions in 2020 | TechCrunch
Facebook will take a cut of up to 30% on fan subscriptions, beginning on January 1, 2020. The social network is revealing its plans as part of a broader slate of monetization-related announcements this week at VidCon. The news confirms a TechCrunch report
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Facebook’s content oversight board plan is raising more questions than it answers – TechCrunch
Facebook has produced a report summarizing feedback it’s taken in on its idea of establishing a content oversight board to help arbitrate on moderation decisions. Aka the ‘supreme court of Facebook’ concept first discussed by founder Mar
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Agencies voice concerns that Instagram is killing organic reach
Scores of Instagram users and agencies recently took to the social network to voice concerns over a sudden dip in engagement on their posts. Speculation around an algorithm change was dispelled by an Instagram spokesperson, but it’s left a question mark
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Facebook and Twitter disable new disinformation campaign with ties to Iran - The Washington Post
The disabled accounts include two on Twitter mimicked Republican congressional candidates in order to push pro-Iranian political messages
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Facebook removed 2.2 billion fake accounts in three months - CNN
Facebook took down 2.2 billion fake accounts between January and March, a record high for the company.
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Instagram is working on new rules for banning accounts
Less than a week after banning Alex Jones and other far-right extremists, Instagram has revealed that it is working on a new policy for account removals. These...
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Everything Facebook announced at F8 2019 | VentureBeat
A comprehensive compendium of everything Facebook announced at its F8 2019 developer conference in San Jose, from Messenger to virtual reality.
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Instagram officially tests hiding Like counts | TechCrunch
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Reddit’s Subreddits Are Getting Collections, Events Posts
The site tested the new feature with the "Game of Thrones" Subreddit first.
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Pinterest shares rise 28% on first day of trading, worth $13 billion | VentureBeat
Shares of Pinterest closed 28.58% higher than the IPO price on the first day of trading, giving the image-sharing site a $12.83 billion valuation.
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Facebook exposed millions more Instagram passwords than we realized
Facebook today revealed it'd discovered millions of improperly secured passwords on its server. So, you know... business as usual.
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The chat feature may soon return to Facebook’s mobile app
Facebook upset millions upon millions of users five years ago when it removed chat from its core mobile app and forced them to download Messenger to communicate privately with friends. Now it looks like it might be able to restore the option inside the Fa
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Twitter drops the number of people you can follow in a day
The change is aimed at cracking down on spammers.
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To stop copycats, Snapchat shares itself
Evan Spiegel has finally found a way to fight back against Mark Zuckerberg’s army of clones. For 2.5 years, Snapchat foolishly tried to take the high road versus Facebook, with Spiegel claiming “Our values are hard to copy”. That inaction allowed Zu
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Facebook asks for public input about its plans for a content oversight board
In November, Facebook announced its plans to create an external content oversight board that would serve as something of a “supreme court” for Facebook’s more controversial content policy decisions. With the release of a draft charter i
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New Facebook tool answers the question “Why am I seeing this post?”
Facebook announced today that it is adding a feature called “Why am I seeing this post?” to News Feeds. Similar to “Why am I seeing this ad?,” which has appeared next to advertisements since 2014, the new tool has a dropdown menu that gives users
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3 Key Impacts of Facebook's Latest Changes on Brands
This is what Zuckerberg's latest announcement means for your business
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Twitter reveals big changes to conversations and new camera features
The changes are meant to make good on the company's promise to promote "healthy conversation."
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Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger are down for some users
It's not just you: Facebook's apps are having an outage.
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Pinstagram? Instagram code reveals Public Collections feature | TechCrunch
Instagram is threatening to attack Pinterest just as it files to go public the same way the Facebook-owned app did to Snapchat. Code buried in Instagram for Android shows the company has prototyped an option to create public “Collections” to which mul
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How to Use Visuals Effectively for Social Media Marketing
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a meme or infographic must be worth a thousand likes, right?……
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Twitter may let us 'clarify' (but not edit) our old tweets
Twitter 2025 could be a non-stop line of 'No, that's not what I meant.'
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Is Facebook About To 'Break' Instagram, And What Does That Mean For Influencers?
Until now, Instagram has kept its distance from Facebook and the brands have been kept separate. But that could all be about to change, driven by influencer marketing, and the challenge for Facebook is to make that work without breaking the Instagram infl
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5 new features Twitter is testing in its iOS app
Twitter has been quietly testing improvements to night mode, encrypted direct messages, and new ways to use GIFs, according to new screenshots.
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Researchers say Twitter's not doing enough to combat abuse
Does Twitter need to do more to police its APIs? Researchers say yes.
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Account linking could make Instagram the heir to Facebook Login
Teens’ aversion to Facebook jeopardizes not only the company’s feed ad revenue, but its dominance as an identity provider. The Facebook Login platform keeps people tied to the social network in order to easily access other apps without a separ
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Twitter bug makes it look like random retweets are appearing in your timeline | TechCrunch
A number of Twitter users have been complaining that tweets that were retweeted by people they don’t follow are now showing in their timeline. The issue, thankfully, is not related to a new Twitter algorithm or recommendation system, as some had feared.
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Instagram outage forces millions to look directly at the world for nearly half an hour
Photo-sharing app and social network Instagram was briefly taken offline on Monday afternoon, causing nothing of consequence to occur other than a brief respite from one source of the constant deluge of inconsequential information to which we all voluntar
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Facebook is integrating WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger | TechRadar
Facebook is bringing its three messaging services on Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger closer.
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Twitter starts rolling out simplified web interface to some users
Twitter is starting to deploy a revamped web client that's simpler to look at and promises tweaks like an emoji button and a revised trending section.
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Instagram will now let you post to multiple accounts at the same time
Instagram is rolling out a new feature today, which will allow users who manage multiple accounts to post the same content to all feeds more directly. Previously, users were required to either manu…
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A 23 Step Social Media Marketing Checklist for 2019 [Infographic]
Looking to make sure you stay on track with your social media marketing efforts in 2019? This checklist will help.
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Proving the ROI of influencer marketing is challenging but it can be done
Marketers have singled out measuring ROI as one of the biggest challenges they have with influencer marketing, but there are ways it can be done.
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10 Improvements Influencer Marketing Has To Make In 2019
If influencer marketing wants to move from a line item in the "experimental" budget to a line item in the media budget, the industry will need to continue to mature in 2019.
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Confronting Facebook's Growing Pains
It is not that Facebook wants to promote poisonous material, but its system is designed in a manner that is allowing it to happen.
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I Built a Social Media Following of 1 Million in 30 Days. Here's How You Can, Too.
By applying these social strategies you can build a huge following with high levels of engagement.
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Forget celebrity influencers - reach micro-influencers who impact your brand
Celebrity endorsements may not have the traction we think - fake followers included.Takumi thinks it has found a better way - with micro-influencers.
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How to Become the Social Media Manager Every Company Dreams Of
As more brands realize the need to reach their audience online, the demand for social media managers to help grow their business through social is rapidly increasing. As social media marketing recrui…
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Facebook, are you kidding? | TechCrunch
Facebook is making a video camera. The company wants you to take it home, gaze into its single roving-yet-unblinking eye and speak private thoughts to your loved ones into its many-eared panel. The thing is called Portal and it wants to live on your kitch
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Relike lets you turn a Facebook page into a newsletter | TechCrunch
French startup Ownpage has recently released a new product called Relike. Relike is one of the easiest ways to get started with email newsletters. You enter the web address of your Facebook page and that’s about it. The company automatically pulls your
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How Facebook could screw up Instagram - Recode
Let’s hope it doesn’t.
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Facebook Hacked, 50 Million Users Affected - Motherboard
Facebook "discovered a security issue" that the company said allowed attackers to "take over people's accounts."
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Twitter says bug may have exposed some direct messages to third-party developers | TechCrunch
Twitter said that a “bug” sent user’s private direct messages to third-party developers “who were not authorized to receive them.” The social media giant began warning users Friday of the possible exposure with a message in the app. “The issue
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Facebook Started Indexing News Pages to Determine Which Publishers Belong in Its Ad Archive – Adweek
The social network developed its requirements with news organizations, academics and industry groups.
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Twitter brings Bookmarks to the web with a new design, now in testing | TechCrunch
Twitter is testing a new experience for web users, the company announced in a tweet on Thursday. A small number of Twitter users will see the updated version of Twitter for web, which will include access to Twitter’s Bookmarks feature, and scrolling thr
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The Five Step Formula To Instagram Engagement
Instagram is today one of the fastest growing social networks in the world. Between 2014 and 2017, the number of daily active users has grown from 200 million to 500 million. The time spent on Instag…
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Twitter suspends more accounts for 'coordinated manipulation'
Twitter's long been under fire for its approach to bots and extremist accounts, but now it appears to be taking a more proactive stance towards its community gu...
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The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People - Motherboard
Moderating billions of posts a week in more than a hundred languages has become Facebook’s biggest challenge. Leaked documents and nearly two dozen interviews show how the company hopes to solve it.
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Trump accuses social media firms of 'silencing millions' | Reuters
U.S. President Donald Trump accused social media companies on Friday of silencing "millions of people" in an act of censorship, but without offering evidence to support the claim.
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10 essentials for your social media marketing campaigns
Sporadic tweets and banal Facebook posts just won’t cut it in today’s online world. Set clear objectives, and keep current and consistent with engaging posts and audience interaction.
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Twitter turns to academics to improve conversational health on the platform | TechCrunch
Twitter is partnering with two groups of academic researchers to figure out how to measure the health of conversations happening on the platform. It’s all part of the company’s continuing long game for social relevance. Despite the fact that it lost 1
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Facebook Suspends Infowars' Alex Jones for Hate Speech | Fortune
Facebook has taken a stand against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, suspending him from the platform for 30 days.
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LinkedIn adds support for sending voice messages – a feature nobody was asking for | 9to5Mac
LinkedIn today announced a new feature for its Messaging platform that seemingly nobody asked for. In a blog post, the company revealed that you can now record and send voice messages up to one-min…
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What Is Local Twitter? - The Atlantic
“Local Twitter” is a booming network of basic, young suburbanites across the country.
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Facebook bug randomly unblocked some users from people’s block lists
Concerning for those who use their block list to prevent harassment and abuse
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Instagram’s Wannabe-Stars Are Driving Luxury Hotels Crazy
Hotels are being forced to figure out how to work with a new class of brand-peddling marketers.
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Facebook bug switches 14 million users' default sharing settings to public - TechSpot
Facebook is informing 14 million users that what they assumed were private posts could have been viewable by the public. A bug caused the users' “suggested” sharing option to be set to “public” by default, rather than basing the suggestion&hel
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Social Media Engagement is the New Social Media Marketing: How To Do It Well
As social media platforms evolve to reward so reward authentic social media behaviour, social media engagement has become a vital part of any marketing strategy. Here's a look into why we think social media engagement is so important and how you can
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The do's and don’ts of hashtags
How to grow your reach and engagement with hashtags.
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Facebook will remove the Trending topics section next week
The removal comes after years of criticism.
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Seven Steps To Make Your Business Instagram Account Successful
Use hashtags wisely and creatively.
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How To Make The Most Of Social Media Marketing
How can I do social media marketing? This question was originally answered on Quora by Frits Habermann.
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How Facebook Marketing is Changing (And How to Be Prepared) - The Buffer Blog
Just a couple of weeks back, Facebook announced a significant update that could signal a new path for the platform. Here's how we feel it will change the future of Facebook marketing.
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Here's what to expect when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces angry EU lawmakers next week
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and another executive will be grilled by European politicians on Tuesday about the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, Facebook's role in election interference, and its attitude to new European privacy laws.
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The No. 1 Way To Get Attention On LinkedIn
Employers or business prospects are searching on LinkedIn for someone like you. Having the right keywords on your profile is the single best way to improve the odds that your profile is the one they will find, click on and message. Here's how to find the
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Four New LinkedIn Features You Shouldn't Ignore
Stay on top of the latest LinkedIn features so you can stand out and expand your success. Here are four features that you need to try for yourself.
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Report: Facebook App Exposed 3 Million More Users' Data
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, via a myPersonality app on Facebook, reportedly used data from 3 million users to power a spin-off company that
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How to Growth Hack the Facebook Algorithm to Reach Your Most Engaged Fans
It's not Mark Zuckerberg's fault that you're not up to date with how social media marketing is done in 2018.
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11 Big Changes Coming to Facebook: What You Need to Know
Here are the most significant announcements made at Facebook's F8 Developer Conference and what they mean.
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Facebook Weighs Ad-Free Subscription Option - Bloomberg
Facebook Inc. has been conducting market research in recent weeks to determine whether an ad-free version paid by subscriptions would spur more people to join the social network, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Twitter says all 336 million users should change their passwords
Twitter says account passwords were not hacked but users should still change them to be safe.
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This Company Will Give You $100,000 to Build a Better, Alternative Facebook - Motherboard
A startup incubator is giving seven companies $100,000 in seed money to build a privacy-oriented, democratic Facebook alternative.
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Use These Tips to Crack LinkedIn’s Algorithm and Generate More Leads
When it comes building a sales funnel, there has never been a better platform than LinkedIn. I’ve personally used LinkedIn as a primary lead source to grow my business and gain more than 47,0…
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How to Create a Fullscreen Canvas Experience on Facebook
Imagine for a second that you can have a customer’s complete, undivided attention on social media. Instead of seeing four other posts on their feeds distracting them, all they see is yours, dominat…
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The 1-2-3-4 Strategy to Drive Leads From Instagram
Instagram can make sense as part of a lead-gen strategy. The secret is a laser focus on optimizing four key elements – Content Marketing Institute
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Real People Are Turning Their Accounts Into Bots On Instagram — And Cashing In
Verified accounts turning themselves into bots, millions of fake likes and comments, a dirty world of engagement trading inside Telegram groups. Welcome to the secret underbelly of Instagram.
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Facebook’s Messenger Kids is getting a sleep mode
Parents can have more control
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10 Social Media Usage Statistics You Should Know (and What They Mean for Your Marketing Strategy)
We sifted through mountains of data on social media trends to bring you the social media usage statistics that mean the most for your marketing strategy.
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Here's Facebook's once-secret list of content that can get you banned
Facebook is making its Community Standards rules public for the first time, here's what you need to know about what types of posts are and aren't allowed.
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Instagram Looks Like Facebook’s Best Hope - Bloomberg
With lawmakers and users on the warpath, the photo-sharing app could be Mark Zuckerberg’s way out of the latest data scandal.
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Instagram traps data without a Download Your Information tool | TechCrunch
It’s hard to #DeleteFacebook with no viable alternative, but at least you can export all your data. There’s no such option on Instagram . That lack of data portability puts users at the mercy of Instagram’s product and policy decisions. And it could
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Facebook and the Price of Tech Utopia
Was everything users gained from Facebook worth what they gave up?
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How to Check If Cambridge Analytica Could Access Your Facebook Data | WIRED
Facebook has released a tool that lets you see if you were caught up in the Cambridge Analytica fiasco—and what other apps know about you know.
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Mark Zuckerberg's letting researchers dive into Facebook data to protect elections
The social network says the initiative will help researchers figure out the effect social media has on democracy.
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Growth Hacking Tips to Increase Your Brand Awareness Via Social Media
To reach out to more customers and increase ones awareness on social media is possible with the growth hacks tricks.
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5 Reasons Why Nobody is Engaging With Your Social Posts (and How to Fix it)
Is nobody engaging with your social media posts on Twitter or Instagram? Here's 5 reasons why, and how to fix it to make sure you get attention on your social media.
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Twitter Is Developing a Subscription Plan That Promotes Your Tweets Automatically | Fortune
Twitter is testing a subscription plan that automatically promotes tweets in order reach to more users and grow follower bases
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Mark Zuckerberg says he disagrees strongly with Bosworth death memo, calls executive provocative - Business Insider
Facebook is back on defense as Mark Zuckerberg spoke against a controversial memo by VP Andrew Bosworth, while defending the executive.
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LinkedIn Prospecting: How to Find and Connect With Future Customers : Social Media Examiner
Social Media Marketing Podcast 295. In this episode, explore how to use LinkedIn to find leads and turn them into customers with John Nemo.
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Facebook VP's memo suggests relentless growth is good, even if it gives a platform to terrorists or bullies | VentureBea
In a never-before-seen internal memo titled “The Ugly,” published today by BuzzFeed News, Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth advocated that the social media giant be relentless about growth, even if someone kills themselves as a result of bullying or people
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How This Founder Accumulates 100M Impressions Each Month And What CMOs Can Learn From It
Getting eyes on your content is every marketer's goal. One man who gets 100M Impressions every month has some tips every marketer can benefit from.
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The 7 Biggest Secrets Of Social Media Influencers
Obviously, they put in extra work and have more experience than the average Joe. But beyond that, there are a few secrets that most influencers don't make public.
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Uncovering Instagram Bots With a New Kind of Detective Work
Marketers are increasingly concerned that too many of the influencers they pay to push their products are actually followed by a percentage of accounts that are fake.
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Does the success of Stories signal the end of Facebook's News Feed?
Big changes could be on their way.
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10 Tech Tools That Will Help You Get Instagram Followers
Build your audience with these 10 tips.
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Facebook's Long-Term Plan for WhatsApp Is Finally Coming to Fruition (and It's Brilliant) | Inc.com
Instagram was a bargain that's turned a very tidy profit. WhatsApp was a very different sort of bet.
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Instagram Unleashes the Ultimate Weapon for Marketers – Adweek
Opinion: ‘Regramming’ could encroach on Pinterest’s position as a king of brand content discovery
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Inside Facebook's Two Years of Hell
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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Facebook looks to be testing comment downvotes
Not liking your friends' posts might soon be a whole lot easier.
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Twitter’s 280 character limit increased engagement without increasing the average tweet length – BGR
After some initial testing, Twitter late last year officially upped the character limit on tweets from 140 characters to 280. In one fell swoop, Twitter changed the most defining feature of the service: brevity.
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The New Facebook Algorithm 2018: Everything Marketers Need to Know
An inside look into the brand new Facebook Algorithm for 2018 with information directly from an exclusive News Feed webinar for publishers. Here's what brands and marketers need to know.
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Why Posting to Facebook Without Paying Is a Waste of Time | DigitalNext - AdAge
Use your marketing team's time and the dollars you're spending with your agency on promoted "thumb stopping" content, Mike Proulx argues.
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AI could make trolls think twice before retweeting offensive content | VentureBeat
While hate speech in the U.S. dates back to the country’s earliest days, the rise of social media has thrust hateful keyboard warriors into the spotlight. Many social media platforms have attempted to counter hate speech using AI-driven tactics, but the
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Best Practices for Advertising on Instagram – Adweek
Make the most of the unique opportunity presented by the visual social network
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Inside Social Media's Black Market: The Follower Factory - The New York Times
Everyone wants to be popular online. Some even pay for it. Inside social media’s black market.
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13 Clever Ways to Increase Your Instagram Engagement
Social Media Marketing World speakers share their lesser-known tips to upping your Instagram game.
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The Instagram course that can help you grow an audience and monetize content
This online course includes 23 lectures and two hours of content that can teach you how to use Instagram for business, gain a following, and monetize posts.
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How To Make LinkedIn The Hub Of Your Social Media Strategy
When you go about building your brand in the virtual world, be efficient. When you make LinkedIn the center of your social media strategy, you can increase your visibility and have greater impact on your target audience with minimal effort.
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How To Build A Thriving Brand Presence On Instagram
There are millions of brands trying to get noticed on Instagram, here's how to stand out in the sea of sameness.
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Weird Facebook glitch has 'broken' News Feed, but it's actually kind of nice
Facebook's News Feed is broken. No, that is't a comment on the current state of social media or Mark Zuckerberg's pledge to fix what's broken about Facebook.
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Facebook Finally Blinks - The Atlantic
Mark Zuckerberg’s radical decision to reinvent the News Feed is a plea for mercy.
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10 Social Media Tools You Need in 2018
Brands are turning to social media platforms to reach target audiences through paid and organic means. Here is a list of 10 tools that social media marketers should leverage for maximum results.
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What is the best time to post social media?
Different platforms have different user patterns. See this guide for the peak engagement hours for each of the major social media outlets.
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10 Instagram Tools to Help You Build Your Following in 2018
Successful brands and influencers have used these tools in order to generate sizable Instagram audiences in no time.
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Iranian Authorities Block Access to Social Media Tools
Antigovernment demonstrators face a crackdown on the apps they use to organize and communicate with the outside world.
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How to Write Posts That Actually Get Read and Shared
I had a call the other day with an entrepreneur who told me that his blog articles are like an echo chamber; it feels like he is talking to himself. He's investing a ton of time and effort into creating posts, but they are not getting any engagement. I
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10 Instagram Automation Tools to Build a Massive Following
Instagram has immense power to make or break brands and influencers. For example, Halo Top Creamery increased online sales by 2,500 percent after growing Instagram followers, and the makeup company Anastasia Beverly Hills came to prominence only after the
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When Instagram Influencing Isn't So Glamorous | WIRED
Instagram fame can be enviable—but it comes at a cost. Excerpted from Brooke Erin Duffy's (Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love.
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Facebook Can Now Find Your Face, Even When It's Not Tagged | WIRED
A new Facebook tool deploys facial-recognition to identify users in photos, even when they're not tagged.
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Facebook To Punish 'Engagement Bait' Posts
Ask for a "like" or "share" on Facebook and the company said it will downgrade, rather than increase, the post's reach.
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Beware of Relying on Fake Social Media Followers. Ever Heard of 'Shadowbanning'?
It's scarily easy to grow your numbers rapidly if you're willing to resort to fake traffic. But if you do, brace yourself for the consequences.
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Snapchat Is Taking a Page From Facebook’s Playbook to Grow Into a Bona Fide Social Media Platform – Adweek
Will an algorithm help grow new users?
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These Are the Biggest Social Media Fails of 2017 | Inc.com
It's been a banner year for corporate facepalms.
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Tumblr CEO and founder resigns from company - CNET
David Karp founded the blogging site 10 years ago.
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Facebook expands AI-based suicide prevention tools
Facebook's suicide prevention AI has advanced to the point where it can proactively intervene when it detects that someone may be at risk of suicide.
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An Updated List of Facebook's Algorithm Changes
If you do Facebook marketing, one thing that you might want to understand is the Facebook algorithm.
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7 Ways Facebook Keeps You Addicted
The intersection of 2 obsessive technologies sees us checking our social apps on mobiles many times a day. Here is how Facebook creates addiction.