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Twitter Announces Shop Module, Its Foray Into E-Commerce

Twitter is looking to help businesses bring e-commerce to their Twitter profiles with a new feature called Shop Module. Shop Module is designed to let businesses showcase their products at the top of their profile page. Businesses will be able to use the feature to create a...
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Pinterest powers up creators during stressful times

How the visual discovery platform is rethinking stories and influencers “The content on our platform is about you and what you want in your life,” explained Colleen Stauffer, Global Director of Creator Marketing for Pinterest. “We really tried to harness planning that became way...
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Twitter Finally Begins Adding Search Relevancy Features

The Twitter Blog has a short blog post mentioning that they have added technology “to show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.” Clearly, this is Twitter’s first step in improving Twitter Search by adding relevancy and search quality...
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Twitter Gets Its Own URL Shortener To Stop Scams; Good Marketers Need Not Fear

Twitter has just announced that to protect people from scams, links in direct messages and sent via email will be shortened using its own URL shortener. It’s a welcome move. Still, I was curious about any impacts this might have for good marketers who are not trying to scam...
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Twitter’s New Home Page Focuses On Content, Users

Twitter is testing a new home page design that introduces new users to a wider view of the site’s functionality by focusing on specific content and users rather than the more nebulous idea of trending keywords and hashtags. I can’t get the new home page to load, so here’s a look...
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Twitter Helps You Find More Friends Via LinkedIn & Facebook

Twitter announced two new ways to find new friends on Twitter. Twitter added to the find friends section, a LinkedIn and Facebook tab to allow you to connect with your LinkedIn connections via Twitter and friends on Facebook. The only issue is that as soon as Twitter announced...
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Facebook E-Commerce: A Look At Facebook Shopping Carts

Facebook pages can be quite a dynamic location for your brand and now there is a growing push towards monetizing pages from within Facebook. By utilizing shopping cart software built exclusively for Facebook, retailers can now sell products right on their Facebook pages – no need...
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Facebook CCPA compliance challenges: Limited Data Use

What you need to know about how Facebook’s handling of California user data might affect your business. Clarification July 8: Compliance exemptions exist for companies with less than $25 million in annual revenue. This is an important note, and the author of this article...
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Facebook Loses Fight to Block EU-US Data Law

Facebook has lost a major battle against an EU privacy law, one that would prevent EU data from being sent to the US. It’s no secret Facebook makes its money off of data. Since most of its products and services are free, the customer is the product and their data a gold mine. As...
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Facebook and Instagram Try to Scare iOS Users Into Accepting Tracking

Facebook and Instagram are resorting to scare tactics to convince iOS users to allow the companies to track them. The latest version of iOS 14 forces apps to ask for permission before tracking users. Apple has framed the feature in the context of protecting user privacy and, just...