Social Times ran an article Pinterest’s Facebook App Is Losing Users – What Happened? today. The article says: The number of daily average users (DAU) had peaked at 1.3 million on April 18, which is also the day that Pinterest released an improved version of its iOS app. But the numbers dropped dramatically on April 20 after Pinterest tightened
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Because of increased expenses, Facebook has posted lower growth in this past quarter compared to 2011. Considering some of the big purchases such as Instagram and others, this should just be a dip in the otherwise healthy road as Facebook steams towards a Billion by early to mid autumn this year.
A private members bill from opposition Liberal MLA, Andrew Younger, is being considered by the Nova Scotia provincial government. The bill would make it illegal for employers to ask from current or prospective employees for their social media passwords. The bill was tabled on April 23, 2012 as a way to help alleviate privacy concerns on this matter. Much ado
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A report from CBC’s Information Morning’s Jesse Hirsh looks at some of the growing pains that sites are facing. [Listen @ CBC ]
Marketplace ads, until March 31, had a 110×80-pixel image and 135 characters of copy. This is now changed to a 99×72-pixel image and 90 characters of body copy. According to Inside Facebook, Even though existing documentation on Facebook still refers to the 110×80 dimensions, the site seems to have already begun resizing images to 99×72 automatically. The company
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Facebook sent out this message to Page owners in the weekly page update. I usually ignore this email as it mostly is just stats that one can access in more depth from the page: Hi, On April 26, we will be updating the size of the profile picture on all Pages. We are letting you know about this small change
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If you have worked in your advanced settings for your Facebook Apps, you no doubt have seen the Migration items that include the July 2012 Breaking Changes. What is this? Facebook describes this as: The following changes will go into effect on July 5, 2012: Removing FB.Canvas.setAutoResize – Originally scheduled for January 1, 2011 We have renamed FB.Canvas.setAutoResize to
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Social Media Examiner has released it’s fourth annual social media study – the 2012 Social Media Marketing Industry Report. Over 3800 marketers reveal where they focus their social media activities, how much time they invest and what the rewards are. Included in the report is: What social networks marketers will focus on in the future The top 10 social
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The fastest-growing social media site ever has become a huge traffic referral (arguably, more powerful than Google+) for all businesses. An increasing number of companies are leveraging the platform to reach a new audience, increase visits to their websites, and generate leads or retail sales. And guess what? It’s working. In Learning LinkedIn from the Experts, five LinkedIn specialists provide
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