Social Momentum

01/14/2014

Do you like the current messaging interface? Are you looking forward to change?

Facebook appears to be testing a new interface for messaging via desktop.

01/09/2014

How do you feel about sponsored stories? Will you be happy to see them go?

Facebook’s sponsored stories have seen their highs and lows, with the lowest low occurring when the ad unit became the subject of a class-action lawsuit, but sponsored stories will be history after April 9, according to a list of breaking changes to Facebook’s ads application-programming interface p...

01/06/2014

Curious about Facebook's rating system for pages?

Facebook appears to have enhanced the information available via its five-star ratings system for pages, offering a breakdown of users’ ratings, as well as displaying pages’ average ratings under their names.

01/02/2014

Facebook remains the dominant social network in 127 of the 137 countries analyzed in the December 2013 edition of Vincos Blog’s World Map of Social Networks, the same total as the June 2013 edition.

01/02/2014

Have you mastered video on Vine or Instragram?

12/28/2013

Narcissists pursue gratification from vanity and the admiration of their own physical and intellectual attributes.

12/15/2013

Social Media is powerful

Clark Walker just landed a job he coveted as a barber in New York City. How? By commenting on an Instagram picture.

12/10/2013

"Sharing is now an ego-gratifying activity that’s socially acceptable and universally commonplace."

Facebook’s redesigned like and share buttons helped contribute to a 47.44 percent rise in referrals driven by the social network to publishers in November, and Facebook saw its share of referrals skyrocket by 169.88 percent between November 2012 and October 2013, according to an analysis of more tha...

12/05/2013

Show uses Twitter to promote it's premiere; tweets entire script (minus ending) to the audience.

The executives behind “Mob City,” a series on TNT about Los Angeles mobsters in the 1940s, are taking a new approach to promotion by tweeting the first episode’s script.

11/16/2013

Facebook folk, do you use Twitter?

Statista's chart shows the 10 countries with the highest percentage of Internet users tweeting at least once per month.

09/17/2013

Do you use Bitly?

If you're simply using Bitly to generate shortlinks, you're missing out. Here are 7 ways to achieve more with Bitly.

09/11/2013

Hundreds gathered at the World Trade Center memorial today to remember loved ones who died in the terrorist attacks 12 years ago.