By Sean P. Aune |
If you think a city in the U.S. was the top location for Twitter in the world, you’d be wrong. Paris-based research firm Semiocast has tracked the geolocation information of tweets to figure out the top locations for the service in the world, and Jakarta, Indonesia…
By Adriana Lee |
Social media can be a tremendous force for good during an emergency. News agencies and local governments can disseminate urgent alerts in an instant, providing valuable information to a distraught public. Unfortunately, as services like Twitter are user-driven and unfiltered, plenty of errant info can…
By Todd Haselton |
You can already use Netflix to watch movies at the same time as friends and family in other locations, if you’re using it from a platform such as the Xbox 360, but new social features are allegedly on the way in 2013. The company was…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook has a new app called Poke that’s literally Snapchat, but a little bit better and easier to use. It sounds completely insane and weird, and it’s strange that Facebook is creating such an app in the first place since a lot of its userbase…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook on Thursday said it’s testing a new feature that’ll allow users to send messages to strangers for a small fee. Why would anyone willingly fork over cash for such a thing? The move is clearly aimed at monetizing Facebook’s infinitely corpulent social circus. The…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook is doing everything it can to generate revenue, including monetizing Instagram, adding advertisements to its News Feed and, in the future, possibly implementing video ads. However, it’s apparently not ready to launch its full ad network, which would allow it to sell advertisements for…
By Todd Haselton |
Happy holidays from Facebook! The company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently donated $500 million worth of Facebook stock to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, with the hopes that the funds will be applied to education and health programs, NBC News said Wednesday. Zuckerberg said that the $500 million…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter’s new feature that allows users to download their entire tweeting history is being pushed out to everyone. All 200 million monthly active users—that’s billions of 140-character quips and gripes and complaints. For whatever possible reason you might have for wanting to keep your thoughts…
By Todd Haselton |
National Geographic’s Instagram’s feed is home to truly stunning photos from around the world. Well, it was anyway. The company recently said that it’s no longer posting photos to the social network following Instagram’s new terms of service. @NatGeo is suspending new posts to Instagram.…
By Adriana Lee |
Facebook gets a lot of tongues wagging, whether for its failed IPO, ever-changing privacy policies, advertising schemes or startup-guzzling buys. None of that, however, seems to affect its standing among employees. They’ve weighed in and expressed their love for the company, restoring it as the…
By Brandon Russell |
Twitter on Tuesday announced that the social network surpassed the 200 million active user milestone. Active being the key word. That’s quite a few 140-character daily quips. As one of the biggest social media services available, Twitter has grown at a tremendous rate, particularly over…
By Todd Haselton |
Instagram has been a hot topic since the social network, now owned by Facebook, updated its terms of service (ToS) last night. We covered it in depth a bit earlier today, so be sure to read up on the new changes and how they will…
By Brandon Russell |
Your Facebook News Feed will probably be filled with full-size video ads early next year, according to AdAge. The report says that the social network will sell targeted video ads on both the Web and on mobile apps in an effort to boost its revenue.…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook-owned Instagram recently updated the terms of service (ToS) for its users, and they’re pretty wild. The social network’s new powers run the gamut from being able to provide your information to advertisers to using the photos that you upload in ads. Insanity! The New York…
By Todd Haselton |
An application named Snapchat has been making headlines recently because it allows you to send and receive picture or video messages that only last for a few seconds at a time. After the time is up, the photos are deleted from both phones and from…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to information coming to light today, Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom may not have been completely forthright with his testimony before the Federal Trade Commission when seeking approval of the purchase by Facebook. When it was announced that Facebook intended to acquire Instagram for $1…
By Sean P. Aune |
Twitter had made good on its promise to allow users to download an entire archive of their tweets before the year is up. Originally teased back in July, and then reiterated in Nov., Twitter has been letting its users know that before the year was…
By Brandon Russell |
Google+ is getting into the holiday spirit by rolling out all kinds of updates for both its Android and iOS apps. There’s a lot being added, particularly on the Android side—24 “treats” (aka features)—aimed at making sharing and communication on the social networking platform more…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook just launched an update to its Android application that offers twice the performance and a much needed speed increase. According to the company’s list of changes, the application now loads the Timeline and News feed much faster, photos open with a simple tap, allowing users…
By Brandon Russell |
Facebook is letting people look at their own personal year in review by providing a reflective time capsule that sums up a person’s 20 biggest moments of 2012. For some, that means getting married, having a child or starting a new job. For me, there’s…
By Todd Haselton |
Facebook has plans to monetize Instagram. We’re not surprised by that, not in the least because it needs to somehow turn its $1 billion Instagram purchase into a profitable buy. But how will it monetize the service? A recent Business Insider article suggests that Facebook is…
By Brandon Russell |
Instagram no longer plays nice with Twitter, but that doesn’t even matter anymore. As the rumors predicted, the social networking site, which is primarily designed to share thoughts and network with friends, is jumping right into photo filters. It’s a step out of the company’s…
By Brandon Russell |
Whether you like the new look or not, Twitter will force feed users its new profile layout starting Dec. 12. I hope you embrace change, because your 140-character presence is about to look a lot like Facebook’s fancy Timeline design. Introduced back in September, Twitter’s…
By Brandon Russell |
Instagram on Monday rolled out a major update for iOS users that aims to improve the photo-taking experience. On top of making a phone’s camera roll more immediately accessible, the overall app has been updated to better replicate an onboard camera. So now, users will…
