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 Tweaks Desktop & Mobile Newsfeed To Surface Higher Quality Content
Facebook has made a change to their newsfeed algorithms to help surface more quality and interesting content to it’s users – such as news stories, and less ‘cheesy’ content, like memes. The change will take effect on both desktop and mobile versions of Facebook. Facebook Engineers Varun Kacholia and Minwen went on to say that average referral […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – November 2013
Christmas is just around the corner, and it is now time to report our Australian social media statistics for November 2013 – showing the most popular social networks our fellow Aussies are currently using. As always, you can view the report for last month – October 2013 if you wish, or our whole archive of […]
Read More | ShareSnapchat Hits 400 Million Photo Sends Per Day, 70% Of Users Being Female
Self destructing photo app Snapchat, now sends 400 millions photos and videos per day on behalf of users. This is double the volume of sends from June when around 200 million photos and videos were sent each day. Earlier in the month we say Facebook make an offer of $3 Billion USD to acquire Snapchat, which was […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Prompts Users For Red Cross Donations In Light Of Philippines Disaster
It seems Facebook are doing their bit of ‘Social Good’ by currently prompting users to Donate to the Red Cross Charity in light of the recent natural disasters in the Philippines. Many users when logging into Facebook are seeing the following notification at the top of their newsfeed: Then allowing users to make a donation […]
Read More | ShareTwitter IPO Sees Stock Price up 72%
Twitter made a grand entrance on their Wall Street debut with shares from the initial public offering (IPO) price of $26 USD shooting up to over $50 USD at one stage in late trading. At the end of the day, the stock closed with a one-day gain of 73 percent at $44.90USD. Twitter offered 70 […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – October 2013
Another month has flown by and it is time to post our social media report showing the most popular social networks in Australia over the October 2013 period. You can view our report for last month – September 2013, if you wish. We have been posting these monthly stat updates since January 2011 – well […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+ Finally Rolls Out Vanity URLs To Most Users
As of today, Google+ (Google Plus) is now offering vanity urls (“pretty urls”) to normal non business accounts. Previously vanity URLs were only available to verified accounts, businesses and brands. Google+ first started testing the vanity URL system in August 2012 so it has taken them awhile to finally roll this product out to the […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Reveals How Their Ads – ‘Sponsored Posts’ Will Look
Instagram have just announced how their first ads and sponsored posts will look on their site. Earlier in the month Instagram told their community ads were coming, and now the first brands to have signed up for Instagram’s advertising include: Ben & Jerry’s, Burberry, General Electric, Lexus, Levi’s®, Macy’s, Michael Kors, PayPal and Starwood – […]
Read More | ShareNew Twitter Feature Lets You DM Users Who Don’t Follow You
It seems Twitter has been rethinking the way users communicate on their site, particularly around their Direct Message (DM) feature. Twitter has just made a change on the site that lets users enable an option to allow any Twitter user to send you a Direct Message, even if you are not following each-other. This will […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Will Soon Start Showing Ads In Your Feed
This October celebrates 3 years of Instagram, and now the photo-sharing service has announced they plan on making money by including ads into the feeds of its 150 million+ users. This will now present an opportunity for brands to show off their pictures and videos via Instagram advertisements. The company saying: “Our aim is to […]
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