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
Hamilton Island Reveals New Celebrity Ambassadors For Their 2nd Instameet: Return2Paradise
Hamilton Island enjoyed a great first ‘Instameet’ campaign with the popular Instagram users – the Pilgramers, coming out from the USA to enjoy our tropical paradise. Now Hamilton Island has secured a new lineup of talent to be ambassadors for its second Ultimate Instameet: Return2Paradise from 17-19 May. The who’s who list of Australian fashion, business, […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Now Lets You Tag Friends, Brands And Other People In Your Photos
Instagram has just announced a new update for their iOS and Android apps – allowing users to tag their friends, brands and other people in their photos. When you update to the latest version (v 3.5) you will now see another tab on your profile page where you can see photos in which you have […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – April 2013
Another month has flown by and it is now time to report our Australian Social Media statistics for April 2013. As I have mentioned in the past, social media growth in Australia has slowed right up. The larger networks are now reaching saturation point and not growing like we saw in 2010 and 2011. In […]
Read More | ShareTwitter Users Still Confused Between RT, MT & HT
A question I get asked over and over is to explain the difference between RT, MT and HT. I’ve never actually posted an article about this so thought it’s probably about time. It’s worth noting one of the main interactions on Twitter is giving credit to other users when they post or reference a particular piece […]
Read More | ShareNew Twitter #Music App For iOS Brings Social Recommendations To Your Music
We saw last week Twitter announce the release of a new music discovery app – Twitter #Music. Because so many musicians and artists are on Twitter, they have released an app to show you what music is currently trending on Twitter based on tweets from all around the world. Users are then able to play the iTunes […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Redesigns Their F Logo, More Simple and Sleek
Facebook has made an update to their resource centre stating they have redesigned the Facebook “F” Logo – showing off a more simple and sleek look. The old “F’ Logo: You can see the lighter blue colour at the bottom of the logo and shorter ‘F’ symbol. The new Logo is as follows: You can […]
Read More | ShareSnapchat Now Sending 150 Million Messages Per Day
Back in February 2013, Snapchat was sending around 60 million messages per day. This got the attention of social networks all around the world, particularly Facebook, who was rumored to be in talks to acquire Snapchat. That never happened and Facebook launched their own Snapchat rival, Facebook Poke. But that didn’t stop Snapchat, growth is […]
Read More | ShareMark Zuckerberg Stars In New Facebook Home Ad [VIDEO]
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Facebook Home is now available on Android devices via Google Play, and initially the reviews were not that great but now the app is sitting right in the middle with 2.5 stars. Google Play gives us an indication there has been between 100,000 – 500,000 downloads already since April 12. What is even more cool, […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Music Video – Selfies, Hashtags, Duck Faces
Are you one of those people that takes endless Instagram selfies, and then uses the maximum amount of hashtags to get likes? Well I’m definitely not one of those people (kinda). But if you are, that’s OK. You are not alone. I was sent this funny video produced by Yeahfilms.tv and I think may Instagram users will be […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Starts Surveying Australian Users
Facebook has started surveying Australian users to get some feedback on the general experiences and how we feel about the functionality on the site. It’s clear from the questions that Facebook wants to check how we feel about the news feed, reliability of the site, and how advertisers ads are making their way into the […]
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