From the Staples Center in Los Angeles, the final WWE "Monday Night Raw" before "WrestleMania 31" arrives on Monday, March 23 as WWE World Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar is scheduled to confront his WrestleMania challenger, Roman Reigns.
Facebook is looking to make Messenger more than an annoying extraneous download, turning it into a multi-app platform soon. Meanwhile, Twitter celebrates nine years since its debut took South by Southwest (SxSW) by storm by ironically doing all it can to stop Twitter network-exploiting video streaming app Meerkat from doing the same at this year's SxSW -- with the opposite effect.
This week in social media, Facebook acquired shopping search engine TheFind.com, Twitter pressures Meerkat, and Snapchat gets another major investment but loses a long-time executive. All of the week's top social media news and more, now at its new home on Sundays at Latin Post!
On Thursday, March 4, Aaron Carter seemingly dissed his ex-girlfriend, Hilary Duff on Twitter following her Cosmopolitan interview where she addressed Carter’s online declarations of love.
Spanish League soccer clubs Real Madrid and Barcelona are by far the two most popular sports franchises in the world today on social media. The two Spanish clubs are also the most valuable franchises in sports.
Iggy Azalea and boyfriend Nick Young enjoyed a Hawaii vacation complete with canoeing by beautiful waterfalls, zip lining and seeing lava, according to the rapper. The perfect vacation ended on a sour note when paparazzi published photos of Iggy in a red bikini that resulted in unkind comments about the Australian singer's body on social media, and now she's taking a break from the medium.
A huge Powerball jackpot will be split by three separate winners, and now those who did not win are expressing their anger that one of the winning tickets is from Puerto Rico.
Was it a "technical glitch" or a marketing ploy worthy of Frank Underwood? Fans of "House of Cards" may never know, but what is well-established is that Netflix on Wednesday released Season 3 of its hugely popular political drama two weeks before its official release -- only to take the episodes down after about 20 minutes.
On Sunday, Feb. 8, Jaden Smith—the son of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith—took to Twitter to subliminally diss actor, Shia LaBeouf for his appearance at this year’s Grammy awards.
This week in social media, Facebook opened up celebrity sharing to Instagram and Twitter while WhatsApp began testing voice calling. Meanwhile, Twitter's latest earnings report led to Wall Street's habitual dumping of the stock -- that is, until it was confirmed that Twitter had a deal with Google to begin including tweets in search results again.
Twitter added new users by 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter, down from 4.8 in the third quarter. The company cites various bugs, including Apple's latest iOS, 8 as some of the reasons why Twitter did not have a strong quarter for growth.
Google now has access to Twitter's "firehose" Tweets will soon be appearing in Google searches in an easier fashion thanks to a deal the two companies made.
