How well can the new Facebook Messages interact with other email services? Pretty much not at all, Facebook told me. You can export some addresses, and you can forward email into Facebook, but that’s about it. I spoke with Facebook’s director of engineering Andrew Bosworth after today’s Facebook press conference about the new Facebook Messaging […]

Eight percent of Internet users in the US are Twitter users, and the service is more popular among African-Americans and Latinos than white Internet users. Those are some of the findings from a new Pew Research Center report. Pew surveyed more than 2,200 US adult web users during November and asked, “Do you use Twitter?” […]

Twitter has enabled 4K picture uploads via iOS and Android, bringing its mobile apps on par with its web app. Twitter’s apps were previously limited to 2048 x 2048 pixels, whereas the web app could upload photos with a resolution of 4096 x 4096. The company has now upgraded its mobile app abilities to match […]

The social media marketing week in review: A round up of news and announcements you may have missed. Snapchat pitches Platform Burst reach option for advertisers Snapchat is floating a new advertising offering called Platform Burst. The idea is to guarantee that “campaigns will reach at least 40% of their target audience 15 times” over […]

WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and Facebook apps experienced a significant outage Friday afternoon. According to DownDetector, users began experiencing issues with Facebook’s services around 1:30 PM. Facebook didn’t elaborate as to the cause, but WhatsApp’s Twitter account indicated the issue had been resolved, at least for the WhatApp service. There has been no official statement from […]

The proposed news bargaining code remains in suspense as Australia’s Treasury department brings Facebook and publishers back to the table. ICYMI: Facebook unfriended Australia this week after the government there proposed a legal code that would allow Australian news publishers to charge tech companies to use their content in search results and news feeds. Facebook […]

One of the disadvantages of being a digital marketer outside of the US, as I’ve said before, is that so many great new innovations take months to be launched in other countries. A case in point is Facebook Places, which, despite the fact that Facebook’s EMEA HQ is based in Dublin, has only just been […]

Facebook is facing backlash from workers in Ireland, as they demand the right to work from home amid the pandemic. Like many companies, Facebook pushed back its return-to-office date as the pandemic drags on, allowing employees to work from home until July 2021. Unfortunately, that doesn’t seem to apply to content moderators that are working […]

When Facebook rolled out its Send button last week, I laughed. I even mocked on Twitter that Facebook wouldn’t be happy until our pages were full of buttons. But the Send button, as well as integrating other aspects of Facebook into websites, does make a lot of sense. In fact, it’s beginning to make so […]

Facebook’s growth may have slowed in recent years, but the pandemic is driving it to new heights in Latin America. As Facebook has achieved market saturation in many parts of the world, its growth has naturally slowed. As Business Insider points out, however, the pandemic has been a significant growth factor for Facebook, especially in Latin America. “In Latin […]