Just Who Uses Social Media? A Demographic Breakdown You think you know social? How about who uses it? Well, you might not know it as well as you would have guessed.A new study from the Pew Research Center and Docstoc shed some light on just who uses social and on what platforms. Some of the findings seem … Continue reading
It’s been three months since Instagram killed support for Twitter cards, yet we still regularly hear complaints about the newfound hassle in tweeting your ‘grams: “Tragic,” the chorus goes. “So lame.”Until early December, Twitter users could view Instagram photos within Twitter itself thanks to the microblogging network’s media-friendly expanding content cards. Then one day, they couldn’t— having instead to perform … Continue reading
Twitter is modifying its search engine to include tweets more than a week old, a move it said will help users uncover better content. Over the next few days, searches will return “a fairly small percentage of total tweets ever sent” but that will increase over time, wrote Paul Burstein, an engineer who works on Twitter’s search … Continue reading
GIF creation app Cinemagram has seen a significant uptick in interest — but is losing the battle of the buzz to its upstart rival, Twitter‘s six-second video app Vine. That’s according to London-based startup PeerIndex, a Klout-like service that assigns social media scores to companies and individuals. A day after the Vine launch, Cinemagram had a PeerIndex of 70, with … Continue reading
Christina Warren2 days ago Facebook has clarified its platform policies in response to the news that it has shut off friend-finding access to Twitter’s new video sharing app, Vine.Within hours of Vine’s launch, the ability for users to find Facebook friends also using Vine disappeared. The move was not unlike a decision Twitter made in July to prevent Instagram users from … Continue reading
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