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Social Media

The latest Social Media news from our blog

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Social Media
Tom Furmanski

Guiding twitter users from a public Tweet to a private conversation

Find out how to create a link that will allow you to direct people from a public Tweet into a (private conversation) Direct Message. Twitter will turn that simple URL into a link with a clear call to action that guides a user straight into composing a new Direct Message.

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Social Media
Tom Furmanski

You can no longer turn off “Related Videos” when embedding a video from YouTube

According to their official statement, YouTube feels “Titles, channel information, and related videos are an important part of YouTube’s core user experience, and these changes help to make the YouTube viewing experience consistent across different platforms”.

So, YouTube considers related videos an important part of their core experience and that enabling related videos on embedded clips maintains “consistency”.

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

[Infographic] Is Facebook becoming social media’s retirement home?

Even though it might be a bit of a stretch to describe Facebook as social media’s retirement home, the social network is experiencing an exodus of young people while increasing numbers of over 55s are signing up. Facebook is generally struggling to retain its user base and today, it has an estimated 15 million fewer U.S. users than it did in 2017.

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

Say goodbye to Google+ from April 2nd, 2019

We all know, curated social media helps keep reader eyeballs on a publisher’s content. Google+ tried to be that curated social media account for content producers. And, in theory, it worked rather well. Google+ and content management systems like WordPress and Drupal played well together.

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

Is Twitter Removing The Like Button?

Twitter CEO and founder Jack Dorsey has recently come out and insinuated that the “like” feature may well have a bit of a shelf-life.

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Business
Tom Furmanski

Social media SEO trends heading into 2019

There’s been talk about social media as a ranking factor for a long time. In 2010, Google said social media was a ranking factor (that means if

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Social Media
Chris Grant (he/him)

Turn website visitors into loyal customers with Facebook Messenger

Build relationships with customers by integrating Facebook Messenger customer chat into your website. Whether your website runs WordPress, Drupal or other popular content management systems or is a simple HTML brochure website integrating Messenger customer chat can help you boost conversion rate and convert visitors into customers!