Category Archives: SocialMedia

YouTube bans Trump for another week ahead of Biden’s inauguratio...

January 20, 2021 no comments

Donald Trump won’t be posting on YouTube for at least another week.  The Google-owned video platform has extended the Trump ban it had imposed a week ago. “In light of concerns about the o...

Parler seems to be sliding back onto the Internet, but not onto mobile...

January 18, 2021 no comments

Parler is following a path laid for it by the likes of Gab and 8chan. Right-wing social media platform Parler, which has been offline since Amazon Web Services dropped it like a hot potato last week,...

Facebook Slideshows are slowly rolling out on Android

January 27, 2017 no comments

Last June Facebook launched the Google-Photos-like Slideshow feature on iOS and now the social network is ready to spread the love. Android Police reports that the feature is in a slow rollout, so yo...

Twitter Tries, One More Time, to Help You Figure Out Twitter

January 27, 2017 no comments

SINCE PRACTICALLY THE very beginning, one of Twitter’s biggest challenges has been helping people find the best of what’s happening on its platform. (Other challenges include curbing abuse, dealing w...

Instagram Live Stories are going global this week

January 25, 2017 no comments

Since it announced a live streaming feature in November, Instagram has slowly been rolling out the service to its users in various parts of the world. Over the coming week, though, Instagrammers arou...

How Emojis Could Be Shaping the Future of Social Media

January 25, 2017 no comments

They’ve been criticized for being juvenile, brandished by texters wildly, and have been a subject of attention for linguists, marketers, and the general public for more than a decade. Now, emoj...

The New LinkedIn Looks Just Like Facebook. Smart Move.

January 25, 2017 no comments

LINKEDIN JUST GAVE its desktop UI the full Beverly Hills makeover. This wasn’t a nip-and-tuck or a light rhinoplasty. It was a shave-some-bone-and-redistribute-some-toochis-fat overhaul to make the p...

Facebook tests fake news filtering outside of the US

January 17, 2017 no comments

Facebook’s tools for fighting fake news are about to get their first test run outside of the US… and they might just prove vital. The company has confirmed to the Financial Times that it&...

Your News Feed will never be safe again: Facebook Live can now be broa...

January 17, 2017 no comments

For those who really want to go live, the barrier for entry just got much smaller. In the latest of a line of thirsty moves to increase live video output, Facebook released its newest batch of Update...

Instagram Stories Is Likely to Become a Powerful Marketing Tool

January 17, 2017 no comments

Instagram is looking for more ways to monetize the platform and the astounding consumer reach it has. The photo-sharing app (hasn’t it become much more than that, though?) announced that it is experi...