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 […]

While Facebook is closing in on 2 billion users, how many of them can you realistically reach? Potentially a whole lot more now, thanks to Facebook’s AI brushing up its language skills. Me Gusta Facebook Messenger’s assistant, dubbed M, can now make recommendations in Spanish. If M notes that a user composes text is Spanish,

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.

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

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,

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

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

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