Taking A Leaf From Twitter – Vine Finally Adds Trending Hashtags
Twitter’s Social video sharing app, Vine has finally made the update many have been waiting for – the inclusion of trending hashtags, as mentioned in their latest blog post. The application has an explore tab, similar to how Instagram shows off their most popular content – however many users have been wondering why Twitter hasn’t […]
Read More | ShareMark Zuckerberg Reveals Facebook Home on Android [VIDEO]
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Mark Zuckerberg and the team at Facebook have built a modified version of Android, so users can have Facebook’s social functions to built into the Android home screen. This new product is called Facebook Home. This means that your Android home screen basically becomes your newsfeed. Users will be able to Like and Comment straight […]
Read More | SharePalestinian Blogger Jailed For Liking Facebook Post
Salfit man, Anas Ismail was charged with libel and slander and sentenced to six months imprisonment after liking three Facebook posts criticising Palestinian authorities. Ismail said that he was detained for 17 days before his absentia sentencing, later writing on his Facebook page: “For a ‘tag’, you get one year. For a ‘like’, you get […]
Read More | ShareSocial Media Statistics Australia – March 2013
Today is Easter Monday and whilst a public holiday time to post our monthly stats for March. We are starting to get to a point in Australia where social media growth is slowing and for some sites, static. We see larger sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and blogging platforms driving much of the engagement. […]
Read More | ShareSnapchat, Sexting Tool or Photo Phenomenon?
In case you are not aware, Snapchat is a new iOS and Android app that allows users to send photos among their contacts, which automatically delete after a short period of time (between 1 – 10 seconds). If the recipient takes a screenshot of the photo before it deletes, the send is notified, sometimes. The app […]
Read More | ShareWhat Is Wrong With The Official @TwitterAU Account?
Every month I report the latest Australian Social Media Statistics based on figures freely available and estimations I use on global data. When Twitter created an official Australian Twitter account – @TwitterAU – this was good news for many of us in the industry looking to find out more about how Twitter is actually going […]
Read More | ShareLinkedIn Reaches 4 Million Australian Members – But How Many Are Active?
LinkedIn has now reached the milestone of 4 million Australian members. It was only in March 2012 that we reported LinkedIn reached 3 million members - so over the last 12 months LinkedIn has added 1 million Australian’s, or about 83,000 news sign-ups per month – about 2700 a day. This is a rather impressive milestone […]
Read More | ShareSuccess Story: Man Finds Birth Mother Through Facebook Plea
I don’t know about you, but recently my Facebook feed has been filled with people sharing images of strangers holding hand written signs, looking for help in finding long lost loved ones or people from their past. It’s been a wonder to me if anyone had actually had any success in this research method, until […]
Read More | ShareHamilton Island To Launch Second Instameet Campaign
After the success of their first campaign, Hamilton Island has announced their plans for a second Instameet to be held from 17-19 May 2013. Earlier in the week, we saw Hamilton Island ambassadors – The Pilgramers release a new video with some behind the scenes footage from their first adventure. The May Instameet will see Instagrammers from the […]
Read More | ShareHashtags on Facebook
Facebook is rumoured to be currently working on a hashtag feature. Although the dominant feature of Twitter, hashtags are becoming a part of the Facebook culture with users tagging images and updates, both in connection to other social networking sites such as Instagram, and also ironically since hash tgas don’t work on Facebook (yet). Reported […]
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