Latest Social Media News & Articles

Social network Facebook has made two subtle changes to its website in updating the cover photos policy and adding a reply button to pages and profiles.

 The hashtag #Twitter7 is trending today to celebrate the micro-blogging service's birthday. We take a look at the impact that a mere 140 characters from Twitter has had on the world. 

This time around on the Facebook Feature of the Week we're looking at Facebook Graph Search, a relatively new feature designed to improve the search experience.

Social media management system HootSuite has announced a new extension for Google Chrome, HootSuite Assignments, a tool to assign Twitter and Facebook posts to appropriate team members from outside the HootSuite dashboard.

You know all those posts and conversations you have on Facebook and other social sites? Combined with the social interactions of zillions of other users, they contain the gold in a new gold rush, where analytics and business intelligence (BI) software can mine them for rich nuggets of insight into how you think, act and buy. Now, BI and analytics provider Information Builders has launched its new gold sifter, called WebFOCUS Social Media Analytics.  

In its most recent update, Pinterest has subtly redesigned its website in order to improve the discovery experience.

How can your business become a social business? A new report from the Altimeter Group outlines six maturity stages your company will experience on the road to get there.

The hashtag is best known for its use in Twitter, right? Not if Facebook moves forward with a reported plan to incorporate hashtag groupings into its service. 

Social media monitoring has evolved over time to include more and more metrics, insights and trends that keeping up with it all is nearly impossible. Finding a single platform from which to monitor it all is never as easy or affordable as you want it to be, especially if you’re a non-profit or smaller business. Until now. Thanks to Attentive.ly, not only can you effectively monitor your brand, but you can target your users where they are.

Twitter has joined companies who have adapted their products for the Windows 8 operating system with the launch of Twitter for Windows 8 app.

Google's seemingly indispensable RSS feed bundler will die on July 1. Google Reader fans will have to come up with an alternative unless the backlash convinces the company to change course.

 Trouble with Outlook.com is now in its second day as Microsoft struggles to resume service to many users, spread around the world. 

This week we are continuing our month long look at products and services that Facebook offers with our Facebook Feature of the Week series. Our topic for this week is Facebook for Business, a service that gives tips and advice about making marketing impact within the social network.

Social media engagement system, HootSuite has announced new premium Salesforce, YouTube and Statigram apps and launched a developer program to improve the overall functionality and appeal of the HootSuite App Directory.

Curious as to why companies are using social media and just how effective are their strategies? We were too. The results of a recent study by Ascend2 called "Marketing Strategy Report: Social Media — What works in social media marketing and how to make it work for you" indicate that companies are getting more strategic about their social media marketing efforts while embracing elements of content strategy.

Today SXSW begins, though pre-conferences and announcements have been active all week. Each year as SXSW becomes more popular and grows to provide more interesting and interactive venues, it gets much harder to keep up with it all. To help you get a better look at what’s hot, what’s trending and what’s not to miss this year, Mashable and Topsy have teamed up to turn the SXSW social chatter into useful insights.

Two updates are rolling out to Pro and Enterprise Hootsuite customers, an advanced targeting option for the Enterprise version, and LinkedIn Company Pages analytics for Pro and Enterprise users.

This month at CMSWire we’re doing a special Facebook series on tools the social networks offers. With this in mind our first article looks at the functionality of the Facebook mobile app.

Whenever Facebook makes a big update to its core features, it sure seems like more and more people start considering using it less. Facebook is now rolling out the final third of its most recent makeover, and it's all about the News Feed.

Social media sites are quite adept at capturing information about us, and every update and added feature is usually a way to make this task easier. Google+ is no different, and the latest updates include larger cover photos and minor profile layout changes.