Social media giant Facebook has started to farm out original content as it linked up with Buzzfeed, Group Nine Media, Vox, and others for its future video service. Reports revealed that Facebook is planning to roll out two types of video content. First is a 20- to 30-minute episode, where it holds sole proprietary rights. […]
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Facebook is getting more tactical in its war against spammy links invading people’s news feeds. After pinpointing individual spammy links, it is now going after individual users who post the most spammy links. Facebook has noticed that “a tiny group of people on Facebook” regularly and publicly post a lot of links to spammy pages, like
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The social marketing landscape shifts so quickly that a half-year review isn’t so much ridiculous as almost requisite, if only to keep track of what has changed already in 2017. When 2016 ended, Snapchat was a social darling, Facebook videos could be watched uninterrupted, and Instagram’s Stories product was smaller than Snapchat’s original. Then 2017
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For some time now, Instagram has been accused of stealing ideas from Snapchat. Now, the social media company’s CEO has broken his silence to put a stop to all the talk. One of the glaring copying offenses that Instagram has been accused of concerns its Stories feature, which is reportedly a virtual reproduction of Snapchat’s
The Electoral College was originally established to make sure that there was a group of citizens who could make better informed decisions than the masses, in part because at the time of our nation’s founding many Americans were illiterate and ill-informed about politics. In a sense, Facebook has made a similarly well-intentioned decision; senior management
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The meteoric rise of the number of active monthly users on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is nothing short of amazing. And when Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook has 2 billion monthly users, the company both appreciated the accomplishment, and the sense of responsibility that came with it. Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox told TechCrunch, “We’re getting
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Facebook has surpassed the two billion-user milestone, doubling their number of monthly active users in five years. The social media giant reached one billion monthly active users in October 2012, a few months after the company went public. Facebook’s new milestone makes its user base larger than the population of any single country. In fact,
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Originally a place for people to chat with their friends, Facebook’s Messenger is officially making a home for people to find businesses and bots to talk to. On Wednesday, Messenger began rolling out a Discover tab to make everyone in the US more aware of the chatbots and business accounts on the Facebook-owned messaging platform.
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UPDATED! This post was expanded for 2017 to include more ways to acquire your first 100 customers. Enjoy! Acquiring your first customers is more art than science. You don’t have spreadsheets full of data to pull from, you don’t have existing segments, and you’re not even sure who specifically will buy your product. You’re just testing out
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If your analytics show that your blog or social media channels are not reaching as many people as before, you are not alone. Businesses, large and small, are affected with this problem, and they are looking for ways to turn the problem around. Facebook alone has 1.28 billion daily users. And with the sheer amount
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