These kinds of statements — when advertisers with big money say publicly they don’t get results — are embarrassing to Facebook and Twitter.
YIKES
Facebook and TED on Monday announced the first content collaboration for Paper, Facebook’s standalone news reader and publishing app released in January.
A great piece about the WhatApp acquisition by friend of DHCS, Peter Yared.
Facebook’s surprising acquisition of WhatsApp signals that it has realized that users’ true social network is the contact list on their smartphones.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Buzzfeed’s immense growth over the past several months is anything but organic.
Yesterday, Business Insider chief correspondent Nicholas Carlson stuck a subtle shiv into his competitors at Buzzfeed, attributing the site’s success in exploiting Facebook’s ever-evolving newsfeed algorithm to its practice of buying traffic in the form of Facebook ads—as opposed to, you know, attracting readers. Then he took it out. Without telling anyone.
The best and ONLY Facebook “Look Back” video you’re gonna need to see!
This post originally appeared in Business Insider. From the very beginning, Facebook has stood for two things: Permanence and identity. Permanence, meaning everything a user does, says or posts on Facebook is recorded and never erased.
What do you think of their move?
In its first year as a public company, Facebook saw its stock plummet, endured one privacy backlash after the next, and was generally assumed to have lost its mojo.
On Wednesday, that assumption was proven false. Emphatically.
For all the complaints and all the fed-up users who have pledged to quit the social network for good, more people are using it than ever before—and not only that, they’re spending more time on it than ever before.
