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What Your Facebook Likes Reveal About You
What you “Like” on Facebook can reveal more about you than you may realize. One study analyzed the Likes of more than 58,000 U.S. volunteers and found that certain Likes can be connected to specific personal characteristics including intelligence and political views.
Facebook Messaging Charges Good, Bad and Full of Potential
You’ve surely heard by now about Facebook’s latest money-making scheme: charging to message non-friends. They started rolling this out in late December of 2012, but now with the rollout extending to Great Britain, it looks as though it may be here to stay. There has been a ton of criticism from users as well as [...]
Facebook’s ‘takeover’ of Android – Time to mobilize your content?
On the 4th of April, Facebook launched an amplified mobile version of its social network in a risky bid to take over of a new generation of smartphones. At Facebook HQ in California, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a software system designed to take over Android phones by pushing Facebook messages, photographs and updates directly to [...]
Facebook Announces News Feed Changes… Are You Prepared?
During the opening of this announcement, CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared how almost 50% of News Feed content today is photos and visual content. We’ve referred to this trend previously in our 8 Tips for Social Media Success series available on Sendible Insights. Logically, Facebook took this information and translated it into a new, visual-focused, News [...]
Social Basics: Set up a Facebook Fan Page for Business
In this article you will learn the basics of how to set up a Facebook Fan page for business and connect it up to Sendible’s Social Media Management Platform – This can help you manage this social profile alongside any other social media properties you may have with some other really useful features to help [...]
Facebook introduces Graph search
Facebook introduced Graph search this week. Some commentators are citing this as a possible advancement on Google’s turf. Charles Arthur of the Guardian cites ‘The more you pick at it, though, the more it feels that these two companies are on a collision course. A very slow, gradual one, but collision nonetheless.’ This new feature [...]
Like-A-Hug vest gives you a hug when you get a Facebook Like
MIT students have designed a ‘wearable social media vest’ that translates every virtual Facebook ‘like’ into a real hug. Critics in a nutshell have dismissed this as a article of clothing that broadcasts the owner’s craven need for approval, as well as suggesting his or her crushing failure to attract hugs from flesh-and-blood beings. Why does the [...]
Facebook’s crackdown on fake pages
Facebook has started to delete fake page likes that artificially inflate popularity, according to a data report. A number of the social network’s most popular pages saw a sufficient drop in likes on Wednesday, according to Pagedata. Celebrities including Justin Bieber, Rihanna and Lady Gaga saw at least 25,000 followers on their pages disappear overnight [...]
New Feature: Facebook Offers
Watch Video tutorial UPDATE from Facebook (3 Oct 2012): To publish an Offer a corresponding ad must also be created and go live. Offers will remain unpublished until a corresponding ad is live on the site. To publish an offer please create an ad to go live at the time you would like to publish [...]
Funny Facebook Cover Photos
We came across a few interesting Facebook Cover Photos for Facebook Timeline that we thought we’d share… Feel free to apply them to your Facebook Profiles! You can even use Sendible to schedule updates to your Facebook Page’s cover photo.
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The Power of Images in Social Media Marketing
Social media marketing has evolved significantly over the past few years, and staying up-to-date on trends is crucial for success. [...]
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The TweetDeck Fiasco
Guest post by Wally Peterson: I used to use TweetDeck back in the day. Of course, that was before there [...]





