Beckman went on to say, just as Google has PageRank, which is based off of about 200 different ranking factors, Facebook has EdgeRank, which is an algorithm used by Facebook to determine what is displayed in a user's News Feed based on three main...
Spindle, available on iOS in parts of the U.S.describes itself as a "news feed for your neighborhood", collating Twitter and Facebook posts from local businesses into a stream of local events and offers.
Upload an image with a news tweet to stand out in the Twitter feed. Tweet from a Pitch and it'll render a summary in the Twitter feed - check it out. Twitterfeed: Part of the bitly family, this free tool makes it a no brainer to tweet the last...
The blue check mark identifying verified pages and profiles will appear in timelines, stories, search results, news feed ads and while users hover over the name of a page elsewhere on the site. Facebook is getting into the verification business...
Facebook is now suggesting images of 308x308 pixels to show the traditional ad in the news feed, which is a significantly larger canvas size compared to the previous image dimensions of 100x72 pixels.
The format of choice has been chronological feeds, such as Facebook's News feed and Foursquare's Explore. My deep-rooted aversion to "killer" claims aside, this brings up an interesting question: Is Facebook – and to a lesser extent Foursquare...
A story that reaches a consumer who is looking at his or her Facebook news feed on an iPhone while riding the bus to work is a very different opportunity than one where the content reaches a dad who is sitting on his couch with the TV on while...
You know that moment when you're staring at your Twitter feed, your RSS list or even your Facebook News Feed and everything reads unbelievably boring and unoriginal? If something looks interesting in your feed reader but you're running to a meeting...
The key is to not bombard fans with too many posts, as Facebook news feed optimization often penalizes for this. Weintraub and Litwinka’s spin on Facebook content calls for 50/30/20 rule.percent news: Include a custom blend of third party, non...
Facebook's CFO David Ebersman said the growth in ad revenue was driven by the strong performance of news feed ads. Advertising revenue from mobile devices comprised 30 percent of Facebook's total ad revenue in the Q1 2013, up from virtually nil one...
In an online statement, Twitter said it has widened reporting on user engagement with Promoted Tweets – the sponsored tweets that appear at the top of its news feed – to include not just paid media but also earned media, or those that are...
YouTube for iOS gets access to live streams, My Subscriptions feed, video queuing for TV playback, and more – The Next Web Facebook Tests Its First Graph Search Ads, But They Aren’t Targeted To Your Queries – TechCrunchThe ads "use standard...
Looking at Facebook usage specifically, it's staggeringly huge (20 percent of all pageviews are on Facebook): percent of users' time spent on News Feed million photos uploaded daily billion Likes every day million pages with 10+ Likes million...
If you triangulate Facebook's moves with Nearby/Local Search, Graph Search, and mobile news feed ads, there's an opportunity to connect buyers and sellers in locally relevant ways. With Cover Feed, which gives you News Feed updates on your home...
This Epicurious Twitter feed used the Boston Marathon bombings as a way to promote recipe content on its popular recipe site. According to a recent study, 70 percent get most of their news from friends and family on Facebook and 36 percent get most...
First, the image is onlytext, which, if that's your tactic, cool, but Facebook is cracking down ads in news feed with images that have 20 percent or more text. It's astounding: big brands, with seemingly bursting-at-the-seams marketing budgets...
Digg is taking advantage of Google's decision to close its popular RSS feed reader Google Reader and has announced that it has already started developing its own version. Digg hopes to identify and rebuild the best of Google Reader's features...
Bear in mind now, Bing has direct feed access to the entire Facebook database of connections, Likes, and shares. I am not going to dig into that the entirety of that argument today, other than to note that in my recent interview with Bing's Stefan...
As promised, Facebook’s news feed is evolving to feature larger photos and multiple feeds that are designed to reduce clutter. Inside Facebook has a good compiliation of what the various Facebook ads will look like in the new look Facebook news...
The median reach of a Facebook article is said to be around 16 percent – in other words only 16 percent of your followers will see your average Facebook posts in their news feed. It’s not easy…” So say the multitude of recent Facebook posts that...
