Twitter Rolls Out Direct Message Anti-Abuse Feature

After a month and a half of testing, Twitter is rolling out a spam and abuse filter for Direct Messages (DM), according to a report by TechCrunch. The new filter is designed to protect users from seeing unwanted graphic images or abusive content. The filter does this by adding a...
Posted On 02 Oct 2019
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Hitwise: Facebook Beat Google On New Year’s Day

As Facebook employees went back to work this week, they may have been smiling more (or at least less frowning less) than most other people returning from vacation.  Their site performed admirably over the holidays, actually attracting record-breaking amounts of traffic. On...
Posted On 09 Jul 2019
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Incredibly Positive For Blockchain Market to Have Facebook Leaning In, Says Ripple CEO

“It’s an incredibly positive signal for the overall blockchain and crypto market to have a player like Facebook leaning in,” says Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse. “There’s been obviously a lot of skepticism in the origins of crypto coming from kind of an anti-government and...
Posted On 19 Jun 2019
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Facebook ads aren’t what they used to be, so it’s time for smarter social ad buying

In a flooded social landscape, Wenograd argues that the most successful brands will be the ones that integrate robust paid strategies and prioritize high-quality creative. SEATTLE – Where Facebook ads were once a hotbed for Lookalike audiences and bottom-of-the-funnel conversion...
Posted On 11 Jun 2019
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New visual search innovations tap human emotions and biological buying triggers

There’s a science behind what engages shoppers and gets them to purchase and new visual search tech implementations promise to exploit that and reinvent ecommerce as we know it. A shopper’s decision to buy products is more influenced by the primal brain areas and less from the...
Posted On 21 May 2019
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Did Facebook find a way to deal with fake news?

There’s been extensive discussion during the past weeks about Facebook’s fake stories and whether they have contributed to the results of the US elections. Mark Zuckerberg has decided to address this issue and announce Facebook’s future plans.  There is a great controversy...
Posted On 15 May 2019
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Workplace by Facebook: a reality check

Internal social tools are fantastic for business. They break down barriers, build connections,and make it easier for employees to collaborate across distances, functions and hierarchies. As the name suggests, they make work more social, too. But, there’s been an excessive amount...
Posted On 23 Apr 2019
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A search marketer’s guide to using paid social media

The battle between those who specialize in certain marketing practices is prevalent throughout the industry. Individuals, departments and indeed agencies are all involved. After all, they are often competing for the same budget, beating their chests and promoting their own...
Posted On 12 Apr 2019
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11 Ways to Hack the LinkedIn Pulse Algorithm

Why do you blog? You want your content to be discovered and read by as many people as possible, right? But often your reach is limited. You’re limited by the size of your existing audience. Every day, people are bombarded with more content than they will ever have time to read....
Posted On 04 Apr 2019
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Seven best tools to find influencers on social media

Influencer marketing has been one of the hottest marketing tactics for a while. It only seems logical that we had influencer marketing long before the invention of social media. The internet simply made influencer marketing much more targeted and available even for smaller...
Posted On 12 Mar 2019
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