Social Media
Posts about social media platforms, how to use them and techniques for getting the best results.
Facebook Instant Articles for all publishers, come April Paid Members Public
Interesting news from the folks at Facebook – Instant Articles for all [http://media.fb.com/2016/02/17/opening-up-instant-articles/]: > We’re excited to announce that on April 12th at Facebook’s F8 conference, we will be opening up the Instant Articles program to all publishers—of any size, anywhere
Are people tweeting less? Paid Members Public
Is Twitter use in freefall? [http://uk.businessinsider.com/tweets-on-twitter-is-in-serious-decline-2016-2?r=US&IR=T] One developer has used the API to find Tweet volumes: > Tweets per day reached a peak in August 2014 of 661 million, our source says. That 30-day sampling period included the World Cup final.
Facebook's Like button evolves into Reactions Paid Members Public
Facebook’s Like button evolves into Reactions [http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-facebook-reactions-chris-cox/] The Like button is about to get a whole lot more nuanced, with a new range of emotions available to react to posts. The change is rolling out in the coming weeks. But how to implement it
How a social media company dumped the "social" Paid Members Public
When Audioboo became Audioboom, it dropped the social content creator [http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/413205%2Caudioboom-the-internet-radio-company-doing-something-different.aspx] The shift from Audioboo to Audioboom was more than a name change – it was an abandonment of the original users: > “The issue was probably quite fundamental,” Proctor says when asked
2008: when a pantomime on Twitter made sense Paid Members Public
The Twitter we’ve lost [https://www.imperica.com/en/viewpoint/twitters-pantomime-jon-bounds] > This era, is sadly over. Could the now deputy leader of the Labour Party play Barron Tweetup today? The swashbuckling, experimental era of any new medium is not destined to last. But that doesn’t mean we
Twitter sharing declines after sharing button counts removed Paid Members Public
The end of Twitter share counts is hitting sharing [https://blog.shareaholic.com/sharing-to-twitter-declines-11-after-twitter-kills-share-counts/] > Sharing activity to Twitter has declined by 11.28% since November 20th. The “social proof” theory of the impact of sharing buttons proved by its withdrawal…
Life behind the Instagram post Paid Members Public
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ISIS: waging war on social media Paid Members Public
Inside the Islamic State propaganda machine [https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/inside-the-islamic-states-propaganda-machine/2015/11/20/051e997a-8ce6-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html] : > Senior media operatives are treated as “emirs” of equal rank to their military counterparts. They are directly involved in decisions on strategy and territory. They preside over hundreds of videographers,
