Twitter posted significant increases in earnings Thursday, reporting net income of $789 million for the third quarter, beating expectations and marking a record four quarters of increasing profits. The company’s total Q3 revenue hit $758 million, an increase of 29 percent over the same period last year and a great deal more than the $702.6 projected […]
Business Insider founder Henry Blodget says that the idea investors got that Twitter was going to be the next Facebook was absurd. “But I do think that the big problem with Twitter was expectations just got absurdly out of whack a few years ago,” Blodget said. “People thought, oh, it’s the next Facebook. It was
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Sophisticated automated bots are being increasingly used on Twitter and Facebook by foreign governments as a method to silence dissent and to target journalist, according to Sam Wooley, Digital Intelligence Lab director. “Governments including Turkey and Saudi Arabia but also within South America and Southeast Asia are making use of state-sponsored trolling as a mechanism
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Twitter is home to 330 million monthly active users. These people visit the channel from all over the world, looking for the latest news and updates from their favorite brands. That means that if you’re not already active on Twitter, you could be missing out on some serious leads. Unfortunately, while there are many brands
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According to a Fortune report Friday, Twitter is under investigation by Irish privacy authorities for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Michael Veale, a privacy researcher at the Unversity College London, filed a report with the Irish data protection authority (DPA) complaining that Twitter refused to give him records on what kind of data
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Back in 2012, while everyone was too busy documenting their life on the three major social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter and Instagram – a new social media network emerged, which was based on a completely fresh concept: ephemeral content. A mobile-only app, Snapchat’s biggest differentiating factor is its emphasis on ‘disappearing’ content. Once users
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Is your small business capitalizing on the Throwback Thursday — aka #TBT — phenomenon? If not, it’s time to join in the race to post nostalgic content to reach out to and strike a chord with followers. Throwback Thursday Ideas If you’re unsure how to execute a Throwback Thursday strategy, help is here, with the
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As the New Year approaches, many of us find ourselves in a reflective mood. And that’s exactly how JotForm founder, Aytekin Tank, felt as 2017 was drawing to a close. As he walked along the Embarcadero, one of the liveliest and most scenic areas in San Francisco, looking back on the year, he was a little
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Twitter is making it possible for publishers to monetize videos viewed by all followers — not just those in their home countries. Previously publishers could only have in-stream ads inserted in videos that displayed to in their home-countries. With this latest update, publishers will be able to monetize their organic video content globally. Why marketers
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Twitter ad chief Matt Derella is at Advertising Week in New York City spreading the message that Twitter video advertising is the best platform to reach valuable audiences when they are most receptive. He says Twitter has never been more clear about what is our superpower. Matt Derella, Global Vice President, Revenue and Content Partnerships for Twitter,
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