David Correll
Editor and Founder of SocialMediaNews.com.au. I also run a Social Media Agency where I do consulting work and Social Media Management. Connect with me: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook or contact me here. Alternatively, you can send me an email at david@socialmedianews.com.au
Facebook Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Mobile Users
In Facebook’s latest earning release we are given further insight into how the world’s largest social network is growing. Firstly, Facebook’s financial results for the quarter was US $2.5 billion in revenue and US $642 million net profit. In a first for the company – active monthly mobile users reached 1 Billion. Commentary from Facebook: […]
Read More | ShareInstagram’s Popular Page Now Shows ‘Unpopular’ Random Photos
You may have noticed over the last week that many images on Instagram Explore Tab (which used to be called the popular page) have a minimal number of likes, but getting maximum exposure in this prominent section of the app. This is a recent change by Instagram but hasn’t specifically been announced by the service. […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Releases Their Second Government Requests Report, Detailing July To Dec 2013
In the past week we have seen Facebook release their second global Government requests report – showing the number of requests per country from Government Authorities, how many accounts were involved, and how many pieces of content were removed – reflecting data over the period of July 1 – December 31, 2013. Facebook have posted […]
Read More | ShareWordPress Auto Updates Millions Of Blogs Around The World With Important Security Fixes
WordPress has just released an important security fix for their blogging software – version 3.8.2. The WordPress site goes on to explain this is an important security update and all WordPress.org users should update to the latest version as soon as possible. If your blog supports automatic updates, then WordPress would have automatically updated you […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – March 2014
It’s time to report our monthly stats report showing the most popular social networks in Australia over March 2014. Social Media Statistics Australia – March 2014 1. Facebook – 13,200,000 users (according to Ad tool up 200,000) 2. YouTube – 12,600,000 UAVs 3. WordPress.com – 6,300,000 4. Tumblr – 4,700,000 5. LinkedIn – 3,650,000 6. […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Releases Office For iPad, Free To Download
Microsoft has released the long awaited version of their Microsoft Office suite for the Apple iPad tablet range. Office For iPad is free to download, and with this users can view documents and give presentations. If you want to create new documents or edit existing files you will need to sign-in with your Microsoft account […]
Read More | ShareTwitter To Shut Down Their Music App
Less than 1 year ago, we reported that Twitter launched their own Music app for IOS which gives you music recommendations from your friends and people you follow. Twitter have announced that they will be shutting down the service and the application will stop working on April 18. Twitter confirmed the closure in the following […]
Read More | ShareWhatsApp Sets The Record Straight – Your Data Is Secure And Separate From Facebook
Lately there has been a lot of speculation about WhatsApp after their acquisition by Facebook for $19 Billion USD. Particularly concern using data, security and how information will be shared with Facebook. WhatsApp Co-Founder and CEO Jan Koum posted a new blog post – “Setting the Record Straight” in which he details his thoughts and […]
Read More | ShareFacebook To Host Their First F8 Developer Conference In 3 Years
Ilya Sukhar, Facebook Product Manager announced at SXSW today that Facebook will hold their first F8 Developer Conference in 3 years, on this April 30th at in San Francisco. It is expected over 1500 developers will attend the conference. I suspect we will see a keynote presentation by Mark Zuckerberg, yet to be announced. You […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – February 2014
It’s time to report our monthly stats report showing the most popular social networks in Australia over February 2014. Social Media Statistics Australia – February 2014 1. Facebook – 13,000,000 users (according to Ad tool) 2. YouTube – 12,500,000 UAVs 3. WordPress.com – 6,350,000 4. Tumblr – 4,800,000 5. LinkedIn – 3,700,000 6. Blogspot – […]
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