Twitter’s defining feature — the tweet’s 140-character limit — may soon go the way of Instagram’s square posts and Vine’s, well, everything. Twitter has started a test to double the length of tweets to 280 characters, the company announced on Tuesday. Twitter will use the open-ended test to decide whether to officially change the maximum […]
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Facebook is making another foray into the group video chat space. Facebook has rolled out a standalone mobile app in Denmark called Bonfire that enables people to host video calls with multiple people. The Next Web first reported the news on Wednesday, which a Messenger spokesperson later confirmed. “At Facebook Inc. we continue to build
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Consumers’ fondness for and engagement with social media platforms are often cited as reasons that advertising on these sites is effective. There are even numbers to support those claims, with analytics from Facebook that show the great performance of marketing through the platform. But is Facebook an appropriate bellwether platform to gauge the entire social media industry?
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Last month, Facebook started rolling out Facebook Stories – their Snapchat-clone within Facebook proper – to desktop users, with a new dedicated space being added to the top right of the desktop window. So what, right? Nobody uses Facebook Stories anyway. That would appear to be true – of all Facebook’s various Stories additions, Facebook
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I know I say this every month, but man, there was a lot going on at the WordStream blog in August. It might not have been the busiest month news-wise (though we did see some important changes to how ad rotation is handled in AdWords), but that didn’t stop us from publishing some very exciting
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Google is testing displaying in the local pack results if the local website returns the keywords you searched for on their website. For example, if you search for [climate control] in a specific region, the local pack might add an additional line to the search snippet, mentioning if the website in the local listing actually
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Over the past couple of years, Facebook has rolled out ways for retailers to push people from Facebook to their brick-and-mortar stores. Now the company is trying out the inverse. Facebook is testing an option for advertisers to target people who visited their real-world locations with ads on Facebook, Instagram and Facebook’s Audience Network ad
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When most people think of “branding,” they envision entrepreneurs conjuring up a fancy name, registering an associated domain and working with a designer to create the perfect logo. Related: 8 Reasons a Powerful Personal Brand Will Make You Successful Reality check: Branding isn’t about design fluff and clever names. Branding is a massive endeavor that
