Are Likes now passé on Facebook? Perhaps not quite, but Reactions are quickly gaining traction. In fact, there’s now a way to rank your Facebook posts, based on Reactions. Smiley Face? That’s right. CrowdTangle now lets you rank your posts based on the six Facebook Reactions (Like, Haha, Love, Wow, Sad, and Angry). Using the […]
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While video, both live and 360, might be the apple of Facebook’s eye for the moment, it hasn’t forgotten about the humble image. Indeed, Facebook has recently announced a bunch of updates for its photo albums feature. Frame by frame First off, you can now add videos, check-ins, and text posts to your photo albums.
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Things move quickly online, sometimes even faster on social. To help keep your head above water, Facebook has released best-practice guidelines for video advertising in the mobile era. Here’s the low down. Get in quick Just like TV isn’t a visual radio, mobile’s aren’t mini TVs. Users are in full control on mobile, determining what they want
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Facebook's anti-spam prevention system has been creating some big issues for us lately. Not because we send out spam, but because we have so many Facebook Pages we are often sharing the same content link across a number of these. And these links get caught up in Facebook’s spam filter and don’t publish. Bulk send
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Facebook has made it easier for publishers to make money from Instant Articles. Read on to find out how to get cashed up quick. Instant Money Over the past few months, Facebook has been testing ad units placed in the related articles section, at the bottom of Instant Articles. The results have proved promising, with RPM,
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In its ongoing efforts to make sure we love Live video as much as it does, Facebook has launched closed captions for the service. Read my lips Publishers can now include closed captions on all Facebook Live videos. Once you’ve turned your captioning settings to On, they will appear automatically. Facebook says the captions will appear
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Facebook really does care how you’re feeling, if some new patents are any indication. Feeling good? A post from CB Insights outlines a range of recent Facebook patents, focusing around the ability to detect and respond to user emotions. One patent would pull data from your keyboard, mouse, touch pad, or touch screen, to determine
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The moment of truth is approaching: Facebook's getting close to launching its first scripted TV show. And it’s supposed to be quite funny. Candid Camera The series is the brainchild of comedian Nicole Byer, whose series Loosely Exactly Nicole was recently canned by MTV. The show is a semi-biographical account of Byer’s life and she
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Facebook’s been teasing us for months about whether or not it will allow GIFs in comments. Now it’s relented, and to celebrate the 30th birthday of the GIF Facebook has opened the floodgates. The GIF that keeps on GIFing When composing a Facebook comment there’s now a new GIF button, right next to the emoji
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As the News Feed becomes increasingly dominated by video, Facebook faces a problem: videos take up a lot more real estate than text updates. Facebook’s solution: side-by-side videos. More bang for your buck Now when a user plays a video in the News Feed, they can now continue to scroll down while the video goes
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