Tag Archives : Social network

Facebook Blames Malware Apps For Developer Accounts Outage

Facebook Blames Malware Apps For Developer Accounts Outage

Facebook Platform access was unavailable to Facebook app developers yesterday resulting in some popular app including chute going offline. Facebook was prompt is addressing the outage issue which was attributed to monitoring to remove malicious app. “The Facebook Platform and our users are constantly under attack from malicious apps and we have many automated systems to protect the platform and [...]
Facebook’s Posts Impressive Q2 2013 Results, Stock Shoots Up

Facebook’s Posts Impressive Q2 2013 Results, Stock Shoots Up

Facebook’s announced it’s Q2 2013 earnings today, the results are much better than expected thanks to a massive increase in mobile advertising, it reported its best fiscal quarter to date with revenues of US $1.813 billion and a net profit of US $ 333 million against expectations of  $1.62 billion revenue. This meant a  30 percent increase over last quarter, Share markets were evidently [...]
Facebook Announces Verified Pages for Public Figures

Facebook Announces Verified Pages for Public Figures

Twitter allows popular individuals to verify their Twitter profiles to avoid fake profiles  through verification check marks, Facebook  is following Twitter’s lead and have on Wednesday announced Verified Pages feature, which will also make it easier for users to find the official account of celebrities and prominent people they want to follow. Profiles will be marked with a small blue icon [...]
At last Pinterest lets users sign up without an invite,  after two years of requiring an invite to join

At last Pinterest lets users sign up without an invite, after two years of requiring an invite to join

Image Credit – SocialBrite.com Red hot social network Pinterest has just opened registration to the public after two years of requiring an invite to join. Anyone can now sign up with Twitter, Facebook, or just an email address according to a blog announcement. “We’re really excited to have the capacity to offer Pinterest to more people and if you’re a Pinner with friends who’ve been [...]
Facebook Launches Facebook Stories

Facebook Launches Facebook Stories

Facebook yesterday launched a new service named  Facebook Stories at facebookstories.com, a Web site that, according to Facebook, is dedicated to sharing “some of the most extraordinary, quirky, and thought-provoking stories and ideas from people around the world who make up the social graph.” Facebook might be banking on this new service to boost its public opinion and stock price.   Facebook [...]
More Than 83 Million Of Facebook Users Are Fake

More Than 83 Million Of Facebook Users Are Fake

Facebook has a total of 83 million accounts on the website which are bogus. It accounts for 8.7% of the total users, of that 8.7%, 4.8% are duplicate accounts, 2.4% are user-misclassified accounts and 1.5% are “undesirable” accounts or simply put –  spam. This was revealed through Facebook’s form 10-Q filing with the US SEC for the quarterly period that ended last June 30, 2012. The [...]
Facebook Make Improvements To the Photos Viewing And Sharing

Facebook Make Improvements To the Photos Viewing And Sharing

Facebook has announced on Monday that it will roll out a new tool for thumbing through galleries across the site, presenting photos in a new square format with the option to highlight certain shots to increase their visibility on the page. “Now when you click Photos at the top of your timeline, you’ll see larger pictures that fill up the page. You can use the menu to find shots you’re tagged [...]
Facebook Rolling Out Timeline design To Pages On Mobile

Facebook Rolling Out Timeline design To Pages On Mobile

It’s about time Facebook – more than four months since it introduced the Timeline design for desktop, Facebook has started rolling out the Timeline design for pages to its mobile versions this week. Earlier the mobile version of Facebook Pages would display only the profile picture for the Page, along with  the category and amount of likes the page had along with a Like button. Timeline [...]
Facebook’s App Centre comes to UK

Facebook’s App Centre comes to UK

If you have been eagerly pinning for Facebook App Centre which was launched almost a month ago in the US, your prayers are now answered. Facebook has now launched it over in the UK. Facebook App Centre  makes it easier for its members  to find games, music services and media content. It had more than 600 apps available from day one – including Instagram, Spotify Pinterest and Draw Something. The [...]
71%  of Tweets generates zero replies or retweets

71% of Tweets generates zero replies or retweets

source : sysomos For all the people who thought that you are getting heard and noticed by your twitter followers have got this wrong. Findings from a research from social-analytics company Sysomos reveals that  tweets have fleeting value over the course of a day. After analyzing over 1.2 billion tweets, the Sysomos team found that only 29% of tweets actually produce a reaction – a reply or [...]
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