Tag: "Facebook"
Facebook Lets Users See Unfiltered News Feed
Facebook’s Edgerank is a special algorithm that determines what content is shown in each users news feed. If you are constantly clicking on a particular friends profile or fanpage, Facebook understands your behaviour and is more likely to show these items in your newsfeed in the future. However there is now a way to view your news […]
Read More | ShareObama Photo Makes Social Media History
The photo, taken back in August, depicts the newly re-elected 44th President of the US hugging his wife, Michelle. “This Barack Obama photo is the most-liked Facebook photo of all time”, confirmed the social networking site yesterday. Accompanied with the caption “Four more years”, the snapshot has quickly become the new record holder for the […]
Read More | ShareOpen letter to Diageo
Dearest Diageo, I have a question that needs answering. As much as any man who works in communication, I confess, I enjoy good advertising. Maybe more. I enjoy nothing more than sitting in a comfy chair and savouring a good ad or campaign. I know it’s sad Diageo, but I love the process of persuasion. […]
Read More | ShareThe Final Price Facebook Paid for Instagram: $715 Million USD
Facebook recently reported their quarterly earnings and the news is rather positive. To give you a recap on the most important highlights for their Q3 2012 earnings: Total revenue for the quarter – $1.26 billion USD Year-over-year ad revenue growth accelerated to 36% Ads in Facebook’s news feed make $4 million (USD) per day and […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Launches Global Pages with Country Localisation
Facebook have announced that their Global pages product is coming soon, which will allow you to have 1 Fan-page but send different messages to users in different locations. This means brands can concentrate on promoting one particular Fan-page but still be able to send the right messages to targeted, local audiences. Here is an example of how a page is […]
Read More | ShareThe Pathetic Twitter Loser
Twitter is an interesting social media platform – almost all users are public and the service allows us to post short messages, generally without annoying your friends (aka Facebook). Personally, I use Twitter 85% for work, maybe 15% for chatting with colleagues/ acquaintances/ friends. With Facebook, if you dribble pointless updates all day people will start […]
Read More | ShareBoost Your Homepage SEO With This Social Media Share Button Tweak
We have discussed in the past how lots of social media sharing and retweets can boost your websites SEO. Google has admitted they look at social media websites to use social signals as part of their search algorithms. Facebook is a closed system and Google has said many times they can’t access the site properly, whilst Twitter […]
Read More | ShareHere is what Facebook’s ‘Want’ Button Will Look Like
There has been much speculation over the past couple months about Facebook’s Want button as developers have seen new code introduced into Facebook’s Javascript SDK back in June. For a brief moment of time the button actually rendered live! using the simple code of: <fb:want href=”…”></fb:want> Another blogger in the US, Tom Waddington grabbed some […]
Read More | ShareDo You Use Social Media Whilst Having Sex? [INFOGRAPHIC]
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I’ve been thinking about 2 fun activities that (most of us) enjoy – using social media, and having sex. Is there a place for Facebook and Twitter in the bedroom? So that made me think, can you combine the 2 together? A recent survey shows some interesting results about the number of Australian’s who use social media […]
Read More | ShareFacebook Reaches 1 Billion Active Users
Mark Zuckerberg has just announced on Facebook that the social networking site has reached 1 Billion Monthly Active Users. Here is Mark’s status update after 16min of being posted, interestingly, via mobile. What is also interesting is that Facebook recently made this ‘commercial’, released on October 4, 2012.
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