Tweet You may or may not have noticed that Facebook recently added its Live Videos feature where you can instantly connect your phone or device to Facebook and broadcast video live to your friends’ news feeds. They even get a notification with a little red dot that you’re live! I haven’t found too many people that are thrilled with this. Fine if you want to let people broadcast live, but I don’t need a notification when someone I know from high school wants to take a video of their dog eating. And most people agree with me. At first, Facebook […]
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Snapchat video traffic catches Facebook
Tweet Is Snapchat catching up to Facebook’s traffic? Not completely, but it looks like their video traffic has finally caught up. Fortune has an article that says that Snapchat’s video views are now five times what they were from this same time last year. That’s pretty insane. Marketers need to take note of this and if you haven’t employed a Snapchat strategy, maybe you should look into it. The article goes on to say that Snapchat’s video traffic is now equal to the views on Facebook: Snapchat’s video traffic has surged to 8 billion daily video views from 7 billion […]
Read moreGo update your Facebook app!
Tweet Did you update your iPhone to iOS 9? Did you notice that your Facebook app was draining your battery even when the app wasn’t running? Well, yeah, it was. Well, Facebook has found the problem and the fix is in the latest update. Wired has the explanation from Facebook on why this was happening: Today Facebook, addressed the problem in a post from engineering manager Ari Grant. Grant says part of the problem was the CPU spin in the app’s network code: “A CPU spin is like a child in a car asking, ‘Are we there yet? Are we […]
Read moreWhat do your Facebook posts say about you?
Tweet Of course, we can all think of some people and their Facebook posts right off the bat to answer that question (“I think Jim is needy!”). But, some people actually did real research to break down what your Facebook posts reveal about your personality. Are you a narcissist? Insecure? Conscientious? This article from Newser gives us a little insight: “People are more likely to post relationship-relevant information on Facebook on days when they feel insecure,” researchers say, adding it’s “reasonable” to see the move as a way to “claim” their relationship. However, those with low self-esteem didn’t aim for […]
Read moreTweet You can count me among those that were not dying to get in on Facebook’s IPO. It came out around $35 a share and that seemed laughable to many. I wanted no parts of it. Maybe it’s not so funny now. Yeah, Facebook is now bigger than IBM. As of the close of the market on Thursday, Facebook saw it’s worth grow to $208 billion and their stock price is sitting at $75.95. If you want public relations or marketing advice from me, go for it. I’d be happy to share my knowledge. If you are looking for stock […]
Read moreFacebook to allow you to search old posts?
Tweet Ever read something in your news feed on Facebook and then it comes up in conversation a week later, and you know you saw it on Facebook somewhere but can’t remember where or when? We’ve all had it happen. Online Payday Direct Lenders Only Facebook might be offering a solution. They are tinkering with a new feature that would allow you to search for posts (that were shown to you) using keywords in that post. “We’re testing an improvement to search on mobile. In this test you can use keywords to search for posts you’re in the audience for […]
Read moreFacebook is changing your privacy settings…again
Tweet Staying on top of Facebook and all of its changes can be handful. We do it for a living and it’s still tough. So, yes, Facebook is changing its privacy settings again. Some of these features are hitting news feeds now, with others being released in the coming weeks. “Some people have felt Facebook privacy has changed too much in the past, or we haven’t communicated as well as we could have,” said Facebook product manager Michael Novak. “Now we’re thinking about privacy not just as a set of controls or settings, but as a set of experiences that […]
Read moreTweet Is your business on Facebook? Are you expecting all of your fans and followers to see your posts in their newsfeeds? By now, you know that isn’t the case, but it’s worse than you think. The last I had heard, Facebook was showing your page’s posts to about 17% of your followers organically. That’s hardly anything! But, it’s getting worse. According to this article on Time.com, Facebook was showing company page posts to just 12% of followers in October of last year. In February? 6%. 6%! It gets worse. A sources tells the tech blog ValleyWag that Facebook is […]
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