Hearts, anger, shock and more reactions will be tested Facebook will test out more options for interacting with posts and status updates besides the traditional thumbs up "like.
This week in social media, another privacy hoax took over Facebook. Meanwhile, it looks like interim CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey will be taking over Twitter and Snapchat's new feature is an ad that costs almost a million dollars for one day.
The iPhone app will allow seven-second loop videos for profile pictures The Facebook profile picture is coming to life through the abilities of videos.
Thousands of Facebook users posted statuses on their timelines Tuesday, after a rumor spread that such statements would act as legal protection for users' information.
This week in social media, Facebook renamed its free Internet service to create some separation from its charity offerings, and redesigned a long-forgotten feature of its flagship platform. Meanwhile, Instagram hit a milestone of 400 million users, surpassing continually troubled Twitter.
Error message read, "Sorry, something went wrong." Facebook was down Thursday afternoon, affecting users accessing the website on desktops and those using the app on mobile services.
This week in social media, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he's actually decided to create a "dislike" button, but it's not what you think. Meanwhile, Snapchat added a replay feature for snaps you might have missed (for a price) and in Facebook's new "Signal" feature, Twitter has something big to worry about from the top social media platform on the planet.
The 14-year-old Muslim student who was arrested for bringing a homemade digital clock to his Texas high school after it was mistaken for a bomb has received an outpouring of global support and invitations to visit the White House and Facebook.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the popular social media website Facebook is about to launch a dislike button. See the details here.
This week in social media, two Facebook-owned messenger services hit major milestones. Meanwhile, Twitter is still on the hunt for a leader with a possible announcement soon, Snapchat (maybe?) hit a Facebook-style milestone in video, and Tumblr cleaned up its act -- on mobile.
Facebook's Messenger and Google's YouTube are at the top of the list Facebook is very popular among iOS users. According to a report released Wednesday from App Annie, the Facebook app and a few other apps it makes are very high up on the list.
Logo will look similar to new holding company Alphabet Google is getting a new logo, with different style lettering and a simpler font. The new logo comes just weeks after Google did a major shakeup that will put it under its new holding company called Alphabet, CNET reports.
This week in social media, Facebook had a full billion on the site at one time, while planning to add intelligence to Messenger. Meanwhile, Instagram dropped the square box, and Vine now adds perfectly looping music behind your videos.
The big two social media companies have been broken down by the numbers. See the results here. Social media has become quite the dominating phenomenon in the past decade.
Latinos and black millennials are technologically connected and consume social media and news content at similar levels to their White counterparts and the national average, according to a new poll by the American Press Institute and The Associated Press.
This week, Facebook decided not to keep a Harvard student's internship for the rest of the summer, after he exposed a major privacy flaw in the social network's Messenger app. Meanwhile, it looks like beleaguered Twitter will look to Jack Dorsey for permanent leadership, as the company is expected to announce his transition from interim CEO to long-term chief executive next week.
Across Silicon Valley, diversity has been hailed as one of the tech industry's greatest problems. Facebook, for example, has publically acknowledged its struggles with gaining a diverse employee base. But diversity isn't quite the same challenge for one Bay Area-based tech company: Yelp.
