Tag: Facebook

  • Elizabeth Warren Tests Facebook Advertising Rules

    Elizabeth Warren Tests Facebook Advertising Rules

    Facebook and other social media platforms have been coming under scrutiny from governments and regulators on both sides of the Atlantic. While there are concerns about content being shared on the various platforms that can impact political campaigns what is probably more concerning is how social networks handle political ads. Elizabeth Warren is currently a…

  • The Facebook Issue Summed Up

    Award winning cartoonist Clay Bennett has managed to capture the essence of the Facebook problem in a simple yet effective cartoon: 3/30/2018- Facebook #Facebook #Facebookgate #CambridgeAnalytica https://t.co/E95zFaT0R4 pic.twitter.com/z3yqBdGWWS — Clay Bennett (@BennettCartoons) March 30, 2018

  • Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations

    Irish Social Media Awards 2014 Open Nominations

    The Irish Social Media Awards are being held in June in Dublin and nominations opened today. As with other years nominations are 100% free. This year’s categories are: Facebook categories: Facebook Page for a Business (Non Campaign) Facebook Page for a Non-Profit/Organisation Facebook Page for a Business (owner managed) Integrated Facebook Campaign: Page, App, Ads…

  • If Toddlers Used Facebook

    If Toddlers Used Facebook

    George Takei “gets” social media and his Facebook page is probably one of the more amusing ones on Facebook. From earlier today:

  • Social Network Wars Explained

    Social Network Wars Explained

    Social media networks want more users. Of course if you’re trying to grow your social network then it makes sense that you use your users’ existing connections .. So a lot of social networks tap into the data available via Twitter, Facebook and other services. Of course by doing this they can upset each other…

  • Pinterest Engagement Graphic

    Pinterest Engagement Graphic

    Pinterest has made changes to their systems in the last couple of months that make it easier for brands and businesses to use the social network. But what’s actually going on? This graphic from Curalate gives some interesting insights: Do you use Pinterest? Why? Do you like it? Hate it? Let us know in the…

  • Social Media Revealed

    Social Media Revealed

    A lot of the companies flogging social media services to businesses probably shouldn’t be in the business at all. A lot of the “advice” they’re giving companies is terrible and yet they charge their clients “top dollar” for it. (Not all of the companies operating in the space are “evil”, but a lot are) The…

  • Twitter Blocks Tumblr

    Twitter Blocks Tumblr

    Twitter’s API changes announced last week upset quite a few people. But what about its relations with other social networks and services? The Guardian reports that Twitter has blocked Tumblr’s access to its users ie. you won’t be able to search for your Twitter contacts on Tumblr anymore. As the various social networks buy up…

  • Twitter Goes Offline

    Twitter Goes Offline

    Twitter has been offline for the last 30 minutes. It’s not even showing the (in)famous “fail whale” at the moment! So you can expect to see a surge of traffic to Facebook and Google+ 🙂

  • Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?

    Facebook Buys Instagram For One Billion, But Who Else Was In The Running?

    Last weekend the news broke that Facebook was acquiring Instagram for $1 billion. Needless to say the tech news circles were buzzing with this announcement all week. According to an article on TheNextWeb Twitter had also tried to acquire them, but failed. And others suggest that Google may have been trying to acquire them ..…