This week in social media, Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed how serious he is about the company's "multi-app strategy," Twitter continued its evolution toward profitability with more ad products, and LinkedIn reached a milestone, thanks to expanding mobile. It's time for Social Media Saturday!
This week in social media, Twitter began its attempt to mainstream its user interface in earnest while finding out that 44 percent of "users" had never tweeted a word, Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp became official, while all other messaging got consolidated into one app, and we found out that while Facebook isn't the biggest hit with teens, Facebook-owned Instagram is. It's time for Social Media Saturday!
Twitter has finally made a big move to become more competitive in social media - or it's jumped the shark, depending on your point of view. On Tuesday, Twitter began rolling out a completely redesigned profile page that looks a lot like Facebook and Google+.
If you've got a "boo thing," the smartest thing you can do is keep him/her OFF social media: a new study confirms what most of us already know -- social media, especially Twitter, leads to cheating, breakups, and divorce!
Well, it was inevitable, and now it's almost here: Twitter, now a public company with investors to please, is reportedly working on lots of new ads to push in front of users' faces.
Since getting the part of Batman in the upcoming "Man of Steel" sequel that will begin filming this month, Ben Affleck has been working out to get his body to superhero status or so his personal trainer told the Twittersphere on Tuesday.
This week in social media, Turkey lifted its Twitter ban, Vine and ChatOn added ShapChat features, WhatsApp experienced growing pains, and it turns out the U.S. government created a "Cuban Twitter" to stir Cuban unrest against their leaders. It's time for Social Media Saturday!
This week the Associated Press dropped a bombshell report detailing how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) secretly created ZunZuneo, a "Cuban Twitter" network, in what appears to have been an attempt to damage the Cuban government's standing. Now Congress has decided to look into the matter.
With social media becoming a popular tool by people to discuss television programs, television and advertising partners are looking to build on such engagements. Twitter has become a social platform to enhance its television measurements in most regions worldwide.
In honor of the annual prank celebration known as April Fools Day on the first of the month, numerous tech companies from around the world participate in gags and hoaxes as it tries to fool millions of unsuspecting people.
A lot happened this week in social media: while Twitter keeps trying to be more user-friendly, we found out that Instagram is more popular than Twitter with active smartphone users. Meanwhile, Facebook made a purchase that redefines the company's ambitions and some Pinterest users got hacked - and flooded with butt pictures. It's Social Media Saturday!
The fifth annual Hispanicize event kicks off April 1 in Miami, and Latin Post will be there covering the events. Hispanicize 2014 takes place at the InterContinental Miami hotel, featuring Latinos in journalism, technology, music, film, and business for the four-day event that's dubbed "the largest annual event for Latino trendsetters and newsmakers."
One of the leading media and marketing companies in Latin America has been chosen by Foursquare as their exclusive advertising sales partner in the region.
Like it or not, Twitter is now getting closer to Facebook in its basic functions, and on Wednesday, the 140 character-based social media network announced some new changes that take it one more step towards being less like the Twitter you know, and more friendly for new users.