Have you liked a Facebook page or post that has been built by a Russian agency spreading fake news? Or, have you liked or followed a Facebook Page or Instagram account created by the Internet Research Agency? The Internet Research Agency has been identified by Facebook as an organization that apparently was paid to spread fake news Facebook and Instagram–in an attempt to influence the United States Presidential Election. [Read more…]

When we do SEO (Search Engine Optimization), most of the time we think about optimizing web pages and images for the Google search results. After all, we really can get traffic and sales for ranking well in the Google search results pages. But, what about Twitter? Twitter has a search box, and people really do use it. Have you thought about doing SEO for the Twitter search results page? [Read more…]

Twitter has opened up the full archive of Tweets, going back to 2006, via their premium full-archive search endpoint, for developers. [Read more…]

In what may have a change of heart (or an overzealous automated ad system), Facebook has now approved my boosted post for a news blog post that I posted earlier. I originally wrote a news type blog post that reported that Facebook was prohibiting ads on its network that promoted cryptocurrencies, ICOs, and binary options. To get more exposure of my blog post, I boosted the post on my Facebook page. However, within about a minute, Facebook disapproved the ad and didn’t allow the boosted post to run. [Read more…]

Facebook’s automated systems disapproved a boosted news post about Facebook prohibiting ads that contain cryptocurrency, ICOs, and Binary Options on their ad platforms. As you might recall, yesterday I wrote a news post about how Facebook is prohibiting ads that contain information about cryptocurrency, ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), and Binary Options. [Read more…]

Facebook has taken a bold move and banned all financial products and services ads on their platform that are related to cryptocurrency, ICO (Initial Coin Offerings), and Binary Options. In a blog post today, Facebook’s Rob Leathern, Product Management Director at Facebook, explained that they created a new policy: [Read more…]

There is a new reaction on Facebook, called Rainbow Pride Reaction. Currently, Facebook defaults to a few reactions that you can make on friends’ posts: Like (thumbs up), Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, and Angry. If you want to add the Rainbow Pride reaction, all you need to do is this: [Read more…]

Have you ever wondered about why or how the Facebook Like button appears on a website or web page? Well, typically the website’s owner or web designer places that Facebook Like button on the page, using code that Facebook provides them. Essentially, if you have a website, all you need is the code from Facebook (you get it here) and all you have to do is copy/paste that code. And, well, it appears like this: [Read more…]

Facebook is helping its advertisers create videos about their businesses. The videos are fairly short, typically about under 30 seconds, and are the business owner (or page owner) can customize it to their liking. From what I can tell, it’s limited to current Facebook Advertisers who have business pages on Facebook. [Read more…]

Facebook has created a competitor to Google’s AdSense program. The program, Facebook’s Audience Network, allows you to monetize your mobile app or website with ads from Facebook’s 2.5 million Facebook advertisers. [Read more…]