Back at the start of the year, we told you that Mark Zuckerberg had boldly announced a significant change to our Facebook newsfeeds An updated algorithm would see posts prioritized by family and friends over public branded content. One of our big focus areas for 2018 is making sure the time we all spend on […]
After first being spotted by users in February, then acknowledged by Facebook News Feed chief Adam Mosseri in an interview earlier this month, more users are now seeing Facebook’s up and downvote options for comments, along with further explanations as to what the new options are intended to be used for. The new update was
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Google announced today it is rolling out new Gmail features first announced earlier this month. In addition to the redesign and app integration it already said was coming, the new Gmail will involve a number of new enhancements. The latest updates include a “nudging” feature that will remind users to respond to messages, high-priority notification
For the first time ever, Facebook has released the guidelines its internal content review teams use to determine whether or not to remove a post for breaking community standards. Not only is the site offering a window into how it decides what stays up and what gets removed, Facebook is opening an appeals process for
Reddit may not be the first social platform that jumps to mind when you think about marketing your brand, but the numbers show that it’s on the rise, and should probably be a more significant consideration that it currently is. According to latest data from Reddit, the platform now has 330 million monthly active users.
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The idea of having a paid but ad-free Facebook account has been floating around for a long time now. While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was usually adamant that it wasn’t going to happen, the Cambridge Analytica issue appears to be swaying his thoughts. The question now is— “how much would an add-free Facebook cost?” Zuckerberg
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Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified for more than five hours before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees. At times awkward and at times boring, among other things, the hearings revealed how little government officials really understand about how social media works. While there was some tough talk, the hearings suggested
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It appears Snapchat made a few changes to its redesign when some users noticed their friend’s Stories reverting to the chronological order. The algorithmically sorted feed, similar to Facebook and Instagram, has frustrated the app’s most loyal users since its launch. The new tweak shows the most recent Stories in reverse order, making it easier
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There’s an outstanding rumor that Facebook users would have to pay in order to keep using the service. While this rumor has been going on for years, it might soon find itself becoming a truth if Sheryl Sandberg’s recent interviews are to be believed. Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer is on a media blitz trying to
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Last Thursday, Google introduced a new feature to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) users for tracking network operations between their servers in the Google Cloud. Called VPC Flow Logs, the tool logs and monitors all network flows sent from and received by the virtual machines (VM) inside a VPC in five-second intervals. The new feature
