SocialMediaExaminer sur Twitter : "NEW: How to Use #Facebook Video Cards for Business by @ckroks #SocialMedia #Marketing. How to Use Facebook Video Cards for Business. MakeUseOf sur Twitter : "5 Sites That Improve Your #Facebook Activity By A Hundred. 5 Sites That Improve Your Facebook Activity By A Hundred. Facebook is a magnificent place for starting an online community, promoting yourself or your business, or keeping in touch with friends and family.
What makes it even more insanely useful though is the fact that there are countless tools and apps floating out there in cyberspace — some good, some bad — designed to help us do Facebook better. We have covered Facebook relentlessly since the beginning, including a privacy guide, a marketing guide, and a Facebook Tips column (all courtesy of the lovely Angela). But today on Cool Websites & Apps, allow me on your behalf, to take a hacksaw to all the dreck that is in the way, and let’s go looking for some gems. Selective Tweets If you go digging around in the Twitter settings, you will find the option to send all of your tweets to Facebook. Mari Smith - Photos du journal. How to Delete Your Creeper Facebook Search History. Remember that time you did a Facebook search of your partner's ex? And before that, when you had a huge crush on your sweetie, you'd check his or her profile page slightly too often. Oh, and recall that other time when you had a leeettle too much wine and looked up The One That Got Away?
VIDEO: How to Hide Facebook Posts from Certain People. Facebook Is Bigger Than Amazon, by Market Cap. Apparently pokes and Likes beat ecommerce and drones.
Facebook is now more valuable than Amazon, at least by market value. Facebook's market cap topped $170 billion this week, while Amazon's market cap has dipped below $165 billion, according to data provided to Mashable by FactSet Research. The social network's stock hit a new high this week, following a strong December quarter earnings report, in which it handily beat revenue estimates and revealed that mobile ad revenue now accounts for the majority of total ad revenue. Amazon stock slumped after reporting earnings for the fourth quarter that were far below Wall Street estimates.
Facebook went public in May, 2012 with a market cap of around $100 billion, but the stock quickly fell to less than half its IPO price, pushing the market cap below $50 billion. As the data from FactSet shows, Facebook now has a higher market value than a number of other established tech companies, including Intel, Cisco and Qualcomm. Twitter Testing Major Profile Redesign That Looks a Lot Like Facebook. Twitter is testing a major profile redesign that's very reminiscent of Facebook and Google+.
Mashable assistant features editor Matt Petronzio spotted on Tuesday a huge update to his Twitter profile page, with the main picture and bio scaled to the left and significantly more real estate dedicated to the header photo. The revamped tweet stream is also a departure from its signature look. There is a greater focus on photos and content cards. It moves away from a strictly vertical timeline too. Click the image below to enlarge.
Review: Facebook Paper iPhone App. With Paper, Facebook Is About to Reimagine Itself for the Mobile Era. Millions of Teens Flee Facebook. Now What? Facebook Unveils Trending, a List of Popular Topics Near the News Feed. 8 Ideas to Maximize Use of Facebook’s Updated Cover Image Rules. Facebook moved quietly away with the 20% max text rule on Facebook Page Cover images as of July 1, 2013!
This is an important change for marketers as it gives much greater opportunity to use the Timeline Cover image for targeted marketing. To read more detail on the change, see the post on TabSite’s blog here: Facebook Updates Page Guidelines for Cover Image. TabSite was one of the first worldwide to see and report on this update. As Marketers, we are always looking for ways to rise above the crowd. Twitter Now Rivals Facebook as Teens’ Most Important Social Network.
By MarketingCharts staff The remaining social networks identified have mostly stayed flat: Google+ (down 1% point to 5%); Tumblr (up 1% point to 4%); and Pinterest (flat at 2% points) remain far behind the top tier of preferred networks.
Overall, 93% of teens say they’re using social networks, down a percentage point from the previous survey. Facebook’s drop is a worrisome sign for the social network, as teens are often used as a leading indicator of future trends. According to data from Experian Hitwise, Facebook’s leading share of US visits to social networking sites and forums has dropped from 63.2% in March 2012 to 58.5% in March 2013. Meanwhile, separate results from the Piper Jaffray survey reveal that 53% of female teens and 52% of male teens believe that social media impacts purchasing. About the Data: The Piper Jaffray data is based on two unique surveys: 1) Upper-income student survey 2) Average-income study survey. How to Get the New Facebook News Feed ASAP. Facebook unveiled a whole new news feed on Thursday morning and the revamp comes with a host of fresh features.
Among the chief advantages: bigger images, multiple feeds for different interests and a more consistent user experience across mobile devices. But all the intrigue brings up just one question: How to get the new Facebook news feed? Well, there's a site for that and it's pretty simple — although the change may not take effect as soon as you'd like. Why Facebook And Twitter Are Not Most Innovative Companies. Recherche dans le graphe Facebook. 7 Reasons Why Facebook on Your Phone is a Terrible Idea. We’ve all got that friend that, since the acquisition of their iPhone/Blackberry/Android has become inseparable from their news feed, and believes it is their duty to add anything and everything to Facebook.
Now, we all do a good enough job embarrassing ourselves on Facebook without the help of a smartphone, and a smartphone addicted friend. And whether it’s you or someone else doing the posting, photo uploading, status updating, messaging and tagging, it’s never going to do anyone any favours. Facebook Smartphone Could Come by Next Year: Report. 5 Best Practices For Educators On Facebook. Facebook's roots may be planted in college campuses, but classrooms have not welcomed the social network as eagerly as their students have.
Sorry Kids, Here’s Why I Don’t Have 5000 Free #FacebookCredits For You. Hi children of the world, I actually don’t have 5000 Facebook Credits to give to each of you.
I’m sorry about that, I wish I did. But before you get upset, let me explain. A few years ago, back when I was at VentureBeat, I wrote a post about an early version of Credits that Facebook had been testing out.
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