We use Hootsuite to manage all our social networks, but lately we've been unable to generate previews for the links we shrink as posts. Hootsuite are doing their best to identify the problem but, despite on-going investigations by their development team into the issue, it is persisting. Seeing is believing It has got to the […]

Facebook Messenger is now including the addition of live emojis, screenshots, filters, and masks for user video chats. Finally, you too can emote in real-time Have a hard time expressing emotions? Worry no more. FB Messenger will allow video participants to amplify four key emotions: surprise, anger, sadness, and of course, laughter. Though each will

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the popular social media network has achieved its milestone of 2 billion average monthly users. We’re all “friends” on Facebook Back in September of 2012, Facebook sat at a comfortable 1 billion, a staggering achievement for any social media platform of the time. Zuckerberg, along with product director Mike Nowak and

Over several months Facebook has been testing a new way for Pages to use videos as cover images. Now the test is getting broader. Cover Girls Cover videos are uploaded in the same way as cover images. However the videos must be at least 20 seconds long, and no longer than 90 seconds. The videos

The recent testimony of FBI Director James Comey has sparked a renaissance in live news coverage across major affiliates, all through Facebook Live. Live like never before With 26 million live views total, the Sinclair Broadcast Group set unprecedented numbers with innovative coverage, all made possible through Facebook. NowThis garnered 1.5 million views on their

Facebook has rolled out two new targeting tools aiming to connect brands with the users most likely to buy their products. Match made in data Heaven? The first, Value Optimisation, analyses previous purchase data to determine how much a user might spend in your store over a week. Based on the requirements of your campaign,

Facebook has just given Group Admins a lot more power on the platform. Here’s what you need to know. Group Think? Mark Zuckerberg announced the tools at the first-ever Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago. These tools are aligned with Facebook’s new mission over the next decade: “Give people the power the build community and bring

Here’s one that’s slipped under the radar: Facebook has quietly adopted Twitter’s most iconic point-of-difference, the 140-character limit. Well, sort of. Speed limits apply Facebook now limits posts to 130-characters to US users. We’re not sure why Facebook chose to shoot just under Twitter’s limit, but sometimes less is more. Facebookers in the US are