Twitter seems to be moving away from e-commerce, as it prepares to retire the Buy button. Buy Back The Buy button debuted in September 2014, and allowed users to purchase products directly from the tweets of participating merchants such as Shopify. Now the Buy button is gradually being rolled back, however users will still be …
You can accuse Snapchat of many things, but dragging its feet is not one of them. Less than a year after opening up its advertising floodgates, the platform is now expanding into offline targeting. Stay on target Snapchat will now give advertisers access to Oracle's Data Cloud, which includes info about what Snapchatters purchase offline, …
It's got kittens, Bieber, and controversial comments covered. Now YouTube is trialling in-app messaging. You've got mail The feature reportedly allows users to send video clips, links, and text directly from YouTube's app. The beta feature is being tested in Canada on iOS and Android, with a wider roll out expected later in the year. …
Vivo’s new V5 smartphone packs a 20-megapixel front-facing camera into a AU$350 handset. Upping antes, upending tables Manufacturers have long been packing extra megapixels into their smartphone cameras. Normally, rear-facing cameras get most of the attention. Front-facing cameras have typically been limited to what is needed for basic selfies and video calls. With the V5, …
Slack users rejoice: your favourite app finally has threaded messages. Say it again? The new Slack threads appear as conversations in the side panel of the app. They share the space with the existing sequential messages, rather than replacing them. Slack says this makes it easier to track related messages and manage a larger amount …
Social media can be used for more than just engaging likers and referring traffic. We regularly use our Facebook pages to create what we call 360s. A 360 is a story that uses content created on Facebook. For example, we will create a post on Facebook, the content (comments or photos) on that post are …
Want to know why we really use Facebook and Instagram? So does Facebook. Recently the Facebook IQ team commissioned Ipsos Connect to study people aged 18 – 64 years in Australia, Brazil, France, Japan, the UK and US who use Facebook and Instagram at least once a week. Here’s what they found. Warm and fuzzy …
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A Twitter bug has been creeping its way through user timelines, causing “you might like” users to populate personal feeds without permission. I don't know you! Unauthorised followers had Twitter users in a united uproar over the nature of these new unknowns. Twitter has since stated that they are working on a fix. The nature …
On January 12th, YouTube unveiled their latest endeavour to connect fans with creators, through means as speedy as they are profitable, thanks to a handy new tool: Super Chat. Beta with Pizazz To battle the ebb and flow of comment mining, YouTube stars such as iHasCupcake are beta testing the new system via their existing …