WhatsApp bigger than Twitter
WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum said his messaging app is now bigger than Twitter, which officially claims 200 million monthly active users. WhatsApp has eight billion inbound and 12 billion outbound messages per day, Koum said.
Facebook Video Adds About to Hit Your Screens
Facebook video ads are soon to cover our screens. Apparently we will start seeing them hit the site in just a few month time.
AdAge’s sources say that Facebook is expecting the first ads to hit sometime in June or July.
It will be interesting to see the…
LinkedIn confirms acquisition
LinkedIn confirms its acquisition of Pulse, a popular news reader app similar to Flipboard and Circa. The cost of the deal was $90 million.
Facebook style mentions for LinkedIn
LinkedIn has just announced on its blog that a new Facebook-style mention feature, letting users tag companies or users, is officially official.
This new feature being tested on LinkedIn would let users mention other LinkedIn members or companies in…
Tweeting a URL? well its about to get shorter
Starting this Wednesday, any tweet that is sent out with a URL will be reduced to 118 characters, or 117 for https links.
The reduction is due to a change in Twitter’s t.co link wrapper. It extends the maximum length of t.co wrapped links from 20 to 22…
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A lot of businesses have a presence on social media but very few have taken this opportunity seriously. There are even a greater number of businesses that still see Social Media as a fad, or are unable to grasp the opportunity due to either a lack of…
Why Social Media Policy is Important for Your Business
Globally, interest and participation in social media is growing at an ever-increasing rate as more and more people connect online via various social media platforms. This interest also extends to organisations, who are recognising that social media…
Facebook Graph Search - One step closer to becoming its own internet universe.
Facebook Graph Search – One step closer to becoming its own internet universe.
Facebook today took another step in it becoming its own web universe when it launched a search engine for shared content. This move challenges the future relevance of search…
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2013 Social Media Trends – Where to next?
2012 has seen social media continue to gather pace, with even more social channels hitting the market. Even with all this buzz, there is still a level of scepticism and uncertainty by business who still fail to understand the power and the enormous…
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