The latest version of Instagram for the iPhone was released a couple of days ago. The user interface has had quite a bit of an overhaul and they’ve also added a new feature – geotagged maps. But they’ve also removed at least one sharing option – Posterous is no longer available! You can still, in […]
As per the title it seems like there are some pretty big changes coming to how you can use the Twitter API. A post over on the dev blog https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api discusses them in more detail. You can read a breakdown of some of the changes over on Marco Arment’s blog. Interpreting some of Twitter’s API […]
Social network behemoth Facebook is constantly adding new tweaks and features. Some of them make users happy, others upset them. But in a recent move the social media giant has decided to go after a whole new generation of users, or more precisely their mothers. So now you’ll be able to share the good news […]
There’s a growing number of fun products available that draw their inspiration, or content, from social media. One that caught my eye this morning – personalised Facebook playing cards. You choose 54 of your current friends from Facebook and build a deck of cards using their profile pictures. I’m not sure if they’ll still be […]
Google+ will finally be getting short and sane URLs for user profiles and business pages. The announcement was made (on the social network) last night by one of the Google+ staffers. At the moment the feature is only being made available to a “select” number of brand and personal pages and profiles. Examples include Hugo […]
The London 2012 Olympics were tracked, tweeted, “liked” and shared via multiple social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Youtube and many more. The guys over at SEO.com put together a pretty interesting infographic Related articles London 2012 Olympics: social media by the numbers (thesportsbank.net) Summer Games Social Stats – The ‘Olympic-Sized Consumption’ Infographic Predicts […]
The reactions and memes on Twitter (and elsewhere) to Katie Taylor’s win this afternoon are.. well see for yourself: Film star Samuel L Jackson: All of IRELAND Raise A Pint for Katie Taylor's Gold Medal Russian beatdown!! — Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) August 9, 2012 Pop duo Jedward: Katie Taylor has the coolest Bling Now […]
A 16 year old in the US who has cerebral palsy may have inadvertently sparked a massive social media campaign targetting Nike. The letter Matthew Walzer posted on his blog a couple of days ago was picked up by NiceKicks, who have not only blogged about it and encouraged other people to share the letter, […]
One of the issues that Facebook has been grappling with is two fold. On the one hand their mobile traffic has been growing, in line with many popular sites. But while the traffic on mobile devices and overall mobile usage might be on the increase the social network has been having issues turning that usage […]
So what’s in the numbers. We’re constantly hearing about people buying fake followers on most of the social networks, you can head on over to the likes of http://fiverr.com/ and for you guessed it a fiver you’ll end up with someone getting you a load of new followers. Of course if you don’t know any […]
