Latest Social Media News & Articles

Micro blogging network, Twitter has announced two important changes to the company executive team with a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) .

       With 2013 just around the corner and a host of gadgets likely already under the tree, what new gizmos will you be playing in the next twelve months?

  As Twitter puts up a site highlighting the top tweets of 2012, ever wondered what you were tweeting about back in 2006 or whenever you started using the mini messaging service? Now you can dig into your personal archive.

The idea of being completely anonymous on the internet is closer to reality with the release of a new, number based social network, Social Number.

New estimates from eMarketer indicate Facebook is expected to take a leading 18 percent of net US mobile display advertising revenue during 2012. This gives Facebook a narrow lead on previous leader Google, who will still maintain a strong second place standing with 17 percent.

Ever wondered why you can't upload video using the YouTube app to the site? Well, now there's an app just for that as Google reveals YouTube Capture, the point, shoot and upload app for content creators.  

Social media may have become an important tool for digital marketing, but according to a new study from the Acquity Group the customer engagement process needs be reevaluated.

Those who use Instagram now have less control over how their photos are used, due to changes in the application’s terms of use.

In this week's Facebook App of the Week we're looking at Ripe Social, a collection of page design and engagement tools.

YouTube has overhauled one of its most popular developer resources by adding new functions and simpler controls to its Data API.

From the hundreds of thousands of apps across the spectrum of devices, what have you been downloading and using on your smartphone most this year? CMSWire takes a look at those that have appealed most to us. 

 Google+ gets updates for both the Android and iOS mobile apps today as the social service adds a bunch of new tricks, with improved photo, connection and hangout features. 

Social platform Ping.it launched in public beta today as an alternative communication and content sharing tool that combines social media and email.

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.