Social Media Updates Archive

Twitter launches Partner Audience, its new ad-targeting feature based on user behaviors

Twitter launches Partner Audience, its new ad-targeting feature based on user behaviors Annoyed by those promoted tweets on your Twitter feed? Hopefully, Twitter will make these ads more relevant to you in the near future. Today, the company released Partner Audience, a new ad-targeting feature to let publishers select intended demographics such as “cereal buyers” and

Twitter’s building a second-screen experience for TV shows

Twitter’s building a second-screen experience for TV shows itter is experimenting with TV Timelines, a new way to surface tweets and media related to TV shows on air, reports Mashable. The feature, which is still being tested in Twitter’s iPhone app with a limited number of users, becomes available when you use a hashtag for

How to bail out of noisy Twitter conversations using mute

How to bail out of noisy Twitter conversations using mute While you can drop out of aTwitter group DM,  you’re still stuck in any public Twitter conversation that include your user name. This phenom is also referred to as a canoe (because they’re long boats filled with people?). Sometimes these conversations go for hours – even

Twitter may bring autoplaying video ads to your timeline

Twitter may bring autoplaying video ads to your timeline IT seems like everyone wants to shove autoplaying videos in your face and now Twitter wants to join the ranks of Facebook and Instagram in the fight for your eyeballs. According to Advertising Age, Twitter is now testing video advertisements that automatically play in your feed.

Microsoft Said To Be Preparing $149 Windows 10 Laptops

Microsoft Said To Be Preparing $149 Windows 10 Laptops That Microsoft is cooking up extremely cheap notebooks is nothing new, but a new report claims that when it comes toWindows 10 laptops, the company has a new figure in mind. A ridiculously low one at just $149. Apparently Google and friends (companies like ASUS and

Pharrell pops up in Google Maps and Hangouts to mark International Day of Happiness

Pharrell pops up in Google Maps and Hangouts to mark International Day of Happiness IF you thought you’d heard Pharrell’s ‘Happy’ song for the last time, you were wrong. Today is the International Day of Happiness, so there’s a pretty good chance you’d have heard it anyway, even if the singer hadn’t teamed up with

Google and SPARK are putting notable women on the map

Google and SPARK are putting notable women on the map Google and the SPARK movement have teamed up to put women from history back on the map. SPARK stands for Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance and Knowledge. It’s an organization that encourages healthy sexuality and promotes gender equality in all areas, including on the Web. Did you

Google’s new Data Saver extension for Chrome compresses pages to save on bandwidth

Google’s new Data Saver extension for Chrome compresses pages to save on bandwidth Google recently launched a new Chrome browser extension in beta that reduces your data usage. Dubbed Data Saver, the extension uses Google’s data compression proxy service to optimize pages before serving them to your browser. It doesn’t work with SSL and incognito

Google Maps for Android now lets you view custom maps

Google Maps for Android now lets you view custom maps ogle Maps for Android now lets you view your customized files from My Maps more easily. To view your saved maps, launchGoogle Maps, tap ‘Your places’ in the menu, and scroll down to find your maps, highlighted with red marker icons. Google’s My Maps tool — available

Review: 7 excellent mobile app builders

Review: 7 excellent mobile app builders Credit: Shutterstock Alpha Anywhere, AnyPresence, and Salesforce1 lead a rich field of low-code mobile development tools Over the last six months, I’ve been examining and testing a variety of mobile app builders and mobile back ends. In some cases, the app builders and back ends were part of a