Remember when it was a big deal that Facebook started auto-playing videos as you scrolled by them in your newsfeed? Facebook recently finished up testing auto-playing sound along with those videos – and apparently decided it was a good idea. So, coming soon, everyone gets auto-playing sound along with their auto-playing videos! People are watching […]
Category Archives: Social Media News
Twitter Growth Is Severly Behind It’s Competition
Twitter has many problems these days – and growth is one of the major ones. Over the course of a 2 year span (2015 – 2016) Twitter has gained only 31 million active monthly users. A recent study showed Instagram gaining 300 million and Facebook gaining 467 million during the same year. Check out the […]
Vine Becomes Vine Camera
Back in October we heard about the official discontinuation of the Vine app – at least as we knew it. Until now everyone figured the Vine app would no longer serve a purpose at all – turning into just another app that gets deleted from your device (unless you still haven’t downloaded the Vines you […]
Facebook Introduces New Post Types
One of the most common mistakes business owners make with their Facebook pages is posting the same type of content over and over again. Nobody wants to be bombarded with the same style of promotional messages all the time – and Facebook wants to help you make new posts by offering an easy way to […]
Do It For The Vine, One Last Time
If you think it’s been a while since you’ve heard about any updates or changes to the Vine platform – you’d be right. Twitter has sat rather stagnant with Vine for a long time now, and as such when the official announcement regarding the closing of Vine came out yesterday – there wasn’t much surprise. […]
Twitter Launches A New Embeddable Message Button For Your Website
Twitter has rolled out a brand new website button which, when embedded, allows anyone to send you a direct message via Twitter directly from your website … kind of. The new button can be accessed here under Twitter Buttons, and all it requires is your profile URL or @username, and your user ID – which means you […]
Build Your Brand Awareness With Facebook Advertising
A major reason behind establishing an online presence for your business is brand awareness, and to help business owners build their brand awareness Facebook has began rolling out a brand new advertising objective specifically for brand awareness. The new objective automatically optimizes your campaign towards reach and attention – focusing on reaching the largest number of […]
Facebook Starts Roll Out of New Business Pages Design
While everyone is focused on the first successful test flight of Aquila, the solar airplane Facebook designed to bring internet access to people living in remote locations – Facebook was busy beginning the roll-out of a brand new design for business pages – offering a much more open look and feel, and finally letting page managers use […]
Facebook Has Over 1.6 Billion Active Monthly Users
Every now and again someone comes along and asks what the true importance of social media is for business owners, and luckily there is plenty of data available to answer that question. The latest from Statista showcases just how many monthly active users various social networks have, with Facebook in the lead with more than 1.6 […]
Instagram Starts Rolling Out Business Profiles
It seems that the rollout for Instagram Business Profiles has began today as several of my client businesses have been issued a notification to switch their Instagram accounts to a new business account. The initial notification should appear at the top of your profile page in a blue box, looking a bit like the following: […]
Facebook Rolls Out A Major News Feed Change – Friends & Family Comes First
Facebook has rolled out a major announcement this past Wednesday, limiting the exposure that content from business pages, and public profiles for brands and celebrities get; instead focusing on showing more posts from friends and family. Frankly Facebook has been pushing towards this change for a while now because there is simply too much content […]
Twitter Launches Dashboard for Business Owners
Managing Twitter as a business owner isn’t exactly easy. Twitter is an extremely fast-paced environment and as a business owner you rarely have the time to properly monitor the Twitter timeline, and catch important tweets as they come in. At the same time Twitter is a great place to share news about your business, and […]
Facebook Rolls Out Redesigned LIKE & SHARE Buttons
Facebook has just launched the redesigned LIKE and SHARE buttons, getting rid of the iconic Facebook icon-logo, gaining an emoji-style thumbs up icon, and merging the count right into the button to create a flatter, more modern, and more noticeable button. The new design is actually part of a much larger redesign of the Facebook social plugins. As […]
Twitter Raises Video Limits to 140 Seconds
Twitter seems to really like the number 140 considering that is their tweet character limit, and now also their video length limit. That’s right – you can now upload videos that are up to 140 seconds in length! Now, everyone can post videos up to 140 seconds long! We can’t wait to see the amazing videos […]
Major Changes To The Facebook Ad Text Rule
Up till this point Facebook has always made use of the 20% text rule when it came to determining which images were allowed to be used for advertised posts. This meant that so long as your text did not cover more than 20% of your ad image – you were good to go! Well – […]
Instagram Is Finally Rolling Out Business Profiles & Tools
Instagram is a great platform for business owners to take advantage of and market directly to their customers and followers – much like Facebook. However unlike Facebook Instagram never had business-centric options like business profiles and business-level analytics … until now. Instagram has announced, finally, the launch of Instagram business profiles, and business tools. First […]
Twitter Updates 140 Character Rules – Excludes Mentions & Retweets
When Twitter first launched the 140 character rule fit the concept perfectly – letting users share brief and short, text based messages. However in an ever-evolving world that is obsessed with media content and visual stimulation, Twitter now shares photos, videos, polls, and so much more. As such the 140 character limit was starting to […]
Instagram Goes Through Their First Redesign
Lately Instagram has been going through some serious changes, updating their app layout to a sleeker, brighter, and more open design – featuring plenty of whitespace and simple black icons. Today the Instagram suite of apps also gets a brand new logo design – heading the completely opposite direction of their recent app redesign and […]
Instagram Is Increasing Video Limits to 60 Seconds!
Everyone is so caught up complaining about the upcoming Instagram newsfeed change – that we’ve almost missed another huge changing coming to Instagram. Videos on Instagram are going to change from the current 15-second limit to 60-seconds! That’s 4x the original amount, and 2x the size of Twitter. Furthermore iOS users are also getting back the ability […]
Twitter Updates Moments to Make Link Browsing Easier
One of the most annoying parts of following links within any social media post on your mobile device is that it usually takes you away from what you wanted to be doing. Facebook solved this by opening links in an internal browser within the Facebook app, and now Twitter has launched a similar feature within […]