Latest Social Media News & Articles

Singly, a peer to peer sharing startup, has released a layer of developer tools that enables mobile and web apps to quickly connect to over 35 services for things like social login and friend finding.

Over the past few years, social media has quickly grown from a social pastime to an essential part of building a successful business.

  Having fallen out last week, photo sharing service Instagram and micropost service Twitter are officially no longer friends, with the photos no longer appearing as tweets as of Sunday. 

Google+, the company’s venture in social networking, has launched public and private Communities that users can set up. Those users will have a lot of potential fellow communitizers, considering that Google+ has now announced it has more than half a billion users.

Microsoft made public its long tested-behind-the-scenes Socl social network, and it isn't terrible, it just doesn't feel different enough to spend much time there as opposed to places like Digg or Pinterest. 

Americans may not have the same taste for cars they once did — China is now the number one auto maker — but you'd never know that was the case based on how much people tweet about their rides.

You could say that 2012 was the year that the legal industry embraced social media — but that doesn't mean that social media embraced the legal system.

Although social media’s value as a branding and customer engagement tool is well-recognized, measuring how branding and engagement actually occur remains a tricky proposition. Social data contains substantial insights for marketers, but unless they can locate and analyze them in close to real time, the true value of those insights will go unrecovered.

Aggregate Knowledge has updated their Media Intelligence Platform, a tool that aims to improve digital marketing strategies and social media presence in businesses.

 With its growth rocketing, serious Tumblr users and advertisers need to know just how good things are on the share-any-content site. Union Metrics has stepped in with a Tumblr analytics package, following on from its TweetReach tool.

In an effort to continue to improve its advertisement services, LinkedIn has announced the addition of an ads API to their advertising platform. 

Engagio, a online productivity monitoring tool, has announced that they are improving their social inbox, so that users can connect to and search for content across 14 different social media platforms.

What is the monetary value of 1,000 Facebook Likes or 900 Twitter followers to a business? Nothing kills the social media love fest faster than the probing mind of a Wall Street fan.

We've all heard of businesses using college interns or part-time receptionists to manage their social media activity. Maybe you've done it, too. But does this strategy make sense?

Wisemetrics, a Facebook analytics tool, has launched today. With its software, Wisemetrics aims to improve its client's social impact and engagement by giving them a more complete analytics report.

 With over $1 billion spent online by Black Friday stay-at-home shoppers, expect Cyber Monday to be just as busy as the deals keep on coming. With mobile-based purchases booming, what are the best and worst e-tailer shopping experiences you've seen?

It’s time for the Facebook App of the Week. This week we are concentrating on TradableBits, a customization platform application that enables businesses to easily design and manage their Facebook fan pages.

Facebook has partnered with Mozilla Firefox to integrate its messenger tool directly into the web browser’s interface.

The good news for fans of social business: companies are increasing their investments. The less-good news: middle managers are struggling to use these new capabilities on a daily basis.

Pinterest has announced that they are improving what the site offers its business users. The content sharing website has released new business centered guides and tools to help these companies promote their brand across the social platform.