Twitter's CEO said he would do something about the less than user-friendly look of the social network, and it looks like the company is trying to make good on his promise: A new Facebook-looking Twitter profile page has leaked to Mashable.
In recent months, young social media service, Snapchat, has been at the center of security scandals. Jaime Sanchez, a Spanish cyber security consultant for Telefónica, has just uncovered a new cyber security problem with Snapchat - one that can crash your iPhone.
Twitter beat official Wall Street expectations with its first post-IPO quarterly earnings report, but many of the company's investors are selling anyway. The mixed-bag report contained some good news, but also included some stats that have driven away investors.
Latinos are at the helm of social media; a fact that was confirmed by a 2013 Pew Report that indicated that 80 percent of Hispanic adults in the U.S. use social media, which is more than whites (70 percent) and African Americans (75 percent).
It was a busy week on social media: Facebook announced its continuing dominance and a new mobile app, Tumblr incorporated comedy into its terms of service, Twitter got IBM off its back, and President Obama used the most disliked social media platform to popularize his State of the Union agenda. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
Facebook's latest app, Paper, signals two major moves for the world's most popular social media platform: It's doubling down on mobile while continuing its push to become a social news network.
A lot happened this week in the world of social media. Pinterest started testing GIFs, Princeton declared that Facebook would die in three years, Facebook released a clever rejoinder, Instagram was revealed to be the fastest-growing social media platform on the planet, and Google+ went down, along with Gmail services, but hardly anyone noticed. Let's dive into Social Media Saturday!
Facebook has fired back at a Princeton University study predicting the social media giant will die by 2017 in the snarkiest (i.e., best) way possible - by creating its own study that says Princeton University will die out by 2021, along with the world. The tongue-in-cheek reply from Facebook pokes fun at the idea that the every "scientific" study is created equal.
Pope Francis is tackling an entity that most do not typically associate with religious leaders or the Catholic Church. In honor of World Communications Day, Pope Francis offered his opinion on the great mysterious entity that is the Internet.
Twitter, which went public in an IPO late last year, is looking to differentiate itself and find more users - and more importantly, advertisers - now that it has to generate revenue for shareholders.
Facebook, in its continuing quest to make its social network more public and "newsy," announced "Trending" on Thursday, a new feature that will put a list of trending topics up in the top right corner of every user's News Feed. The addition of this feature confirms that Facebook sees Twitter as both a threat and a model for news-focused social content.
After about 4.6 million Snapchatters' usernames and phone numbers were exposed by a hack of a security vulnerability that the young social media company was repeated warned about, Snapchat has issued an apology and an update to its app.
Growing up in the age of instant gratification and over-sexualized social media that promotes unrealistic perceptions of beauty, can be a disastrous formula for any young female, especially an impressionable Latina.
Microsoft has made it a priority to market the incoming Xbox One game console as one that will allow users to interact beyond just the gaming platform itself. In the latest move to revolutionize gaming, Xbox spokesperson "Major Nelson" has introduced fans to a an app on the Xbox One called the Friends App.
