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.
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.
This week in social media, Twitter finally got a boost from its partnership with Google. Meanwhile, leaked documents showed Snapchat lost a considerable sum of money in a short period of time last year. And Spotify, of all "social" platforms, angered users by asking for too much data.
Ever since he broke with his successor, Juan Manuel Santos, former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has aggressively used social media to keep himself relevant in the political scene of his South American nation.
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.
The famous Latinas all took to social media to take on their haters. Gina Rodriguez, Elizabeth Gutiérrez and Demi Lovato all spoke out about negativity on Instagram this week.
This week in social media, Twitter messed with everyone's homepage, Facebook relented on its fight against a sea of search warrants issued by a New York court, and Snapchat and Univision have partnered up.
Check out some of the Latino social media stars on YouTube, Vine and Instagram. There plenty of social media stars out there who have reached new levels of success, but not all of them are from Latin backgrounds.
This week in social media, the weeks-long maelstrom over former Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao led to her resignation. Meanwhile Facebook gave its users a little more power over their News Feeds and Twitter's "Project Lightning" is probably going to be called "Moments" in its debut.
150,000 people want CEO Ellen Pao to resign following the firing of AMA moderator Victoria Taylor. Reddit's pages are mostly back up and running after a dispute between subreddit moderators and the website administration caused them to be shutdown for the weekend.
This week in social media, Facebook released its (disappointing) update on diversity, while setting Messenger free and introducing face-recognition technology so impressive (and creepy), it doesn't need to see your face.
Carter Reynolds has been the subject of criticism after a video leaked showing the social media personality pressuring his underage girlfriend to perform sexual act.
This week in social media, Twitter unveiled Project Lightning, its best hope to open up Twitter's biggest strength to multiple platforms, users, and non-users alike.
The actress explains why she does not reveal the faces of her twin boys on social media. Zoe Saldana may not be opposed to sharing bits and pieces of her life with fans through social media, but the actress is set on keeping her baby twins' faces out of it.
Direct messages on Twitter will soon allow for lengthy conversations between users. Direct messages on Twitter will soon allow for lengthy conversations between users.
It's just a shark. OK, it's a really big shark, possibly the largest ever captured on camera. And since Mauricio Padilla posted his close encounter with the behemoth on Facebook, it's been viewed more than three million times by folks who can't seem to get enough of internet animals.
Facebook, the leading social media platform in the world, has now launched a new stripped down version of its app aimed at users in new, emerging markets.
