Sherrilynne Starkie

article thumbnail

Facebook news today

Sherrilynne Starkie

Facebook Foxes. Facebook is cracking down on violent, sexist content in response to an open letter issued last week by Women, Action & the Media (WAM). The group demanded that Facebook add gender-based hate speech to its list of forbidden content. ” Remember Facebook Notes? ” Remember Facebook Notes? .

News 305
article thumbnail

Facebook and hashtags: at long last

Sherrilynne Starkie

A black hole in social media data got a step closer to being understood this week. Facebook has introduced the use of hashtags ! Up until know, it’s been almost impossible to see into the world’s most popular social network to gain insight that could be crucial in developing social media strategies and campaigns.

Hashtag 312
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Path: the sequel

Sherrilynne Starkie

Well over a year ago a new social network, Path, was launched. It was positioned as ‘personal network’ and friends were limited to just 50, a number based on the psychology theories that 150 is the maximum number of social relationships any human can handle. Related posts: Facebook turns off daily deals.

MySpace 338
article thumbnail

Native advertising is here to stay

Sherrilynne Starkie

Many high profile news sites and social networks have been offering native ads to brands for quite some time. Twitter and Facebook have a similar offering in ‘sponsored stories’ and ‘promoted tweets’. Last week Yahoo and Tumblr, too, announced the launch of integrated ads.