Facebook on Monday began offering its VoIP calling service for iOS Messenger users in the UK. The app is already available in the United States and Canada. The new feature does not even require users to download a new version of the popular Facebook Messenger app. Last month was big for FB in terms of…
Facebook Managing Editor Says Site ‘Doesn’t Need Reporters,’ Quits
Facebook managing editor Dan Fletcher announced Wednesday that he will vacate his post next month because his position is … well … a little redundant. Fletcher spoke to a crowd at the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington this week, and announced that he’ll be leaving Facebook to…
Facebook Launches Weather Service For Event Updates And Pages
Facebook on Friday rolled out a new weather service feature that adds important weather information to events updates and unowned parks and city pages. The feature is the perfect way to allow guests to check weather conditions before they attend an event. The update also provides yet another option for keeping Facebook users on the…
Child Porn Went Viral On Facebook Because You Don’t Think, You Just Share
Every once in a while, we in the industry wake up to something that reminds us that you’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than on social media. This morning, that reminder was a piece of honest-to-goodness child pornography that went viral on websites like Facebook and Twitter. The video, of…
Facebook Testing Update Feature, Reminds Users To Post New Messages
Facebook is testing a new feature that would remind users to post status updates. The new feature was discovered by Bijan Sabet, a general partner at Spark Capital who tweeted a screenshot (shown above) of the new feature. Facebook soon after confirmed that the new feature is in the works, although only with a small…
Instagram URL Glitch Causes Twitter, Facebook Link Outage
Instagram on Thursday experienced a temporary outage on Twitter and Facebook after its instagr.am URL shortener experienced some technical difficulties. Users clicking on links from Twitter and Facebook were greeted with a “photo not found” message. Several users quickly realized that using the full Instagram.com/p/xxx name allowed for photos to be discovered. Facebook rolled out…
Facebook Rolls Out Incremental Google Android Update To All Users, Pushes For Silent Update Feature
Nothing excites us more than incremental updates of social apps for mobile devices. Then again we live and breath social media. On Wednesday Facebook announced one of those ‘incremental’ updates for Google Android users. Available now through the Google Play store the new updates allows users to change their profile pictures directly from the app.…
Can Facebook Graph Search Help You Make Money? [Infographic]
Can Facebook Graph Search make you money? Believe it or not, Facebook Graph Search has the infrastructure behind it to make it one of the best tools for small businesses that want to expand their social outreach and potentially make some money down the line. Because Facebook Graph Search uses connections on the social network…
Facebook Outing Gay Users Through Algorithms Again
News Facebook’s outing gay users inadvertently has been reported before, and it seems yet again the social network’s notoriously spooky algorithms were spot on — leading the man to suspect that Facebook was able to access content from his text messages. (Which Facebook confirms it does not do.) Facebook outing gay users is something we’ve…
MessageMe Adds 1 Million Users, Raises $1.9 Million Following Facebook’s API Antics
Facebook removing API access from the MessageMe application has done very little, if anything, to slow the messaging apps growth. In a blog post on Tuesday the company announced that it now offers service to more than 1 million users and sends 500 notifications per second. MessageMe also recently raised $1.9 million from a group…
Facebook Revenue Was $1.1 Million Per Employee In 2012
According to analysis by Jeremiah Owyang, Facebook generated $1,101,753 per employee in 2012. Reported revenue for Facebook in 2012 was $5,089,000,000, and publicly available data about Facebook employees puts the headcount at 4,619. Owyang says that’s slightly higher than what Google earned per employee. Google earned $50 billion for 53,000 employees for a total of…
Facebook Cuts Off Social Graph Support For MessageMe App
Facebook on Friday cut off social graph access for popular messaging application MessageMe. The app launched last week and quickly made its way to number two on the social networking platform in the United States. The app used the Facebook platforms API information for its “Find Friends” functionality. Users could connect their Facebook accounts in…
FCKH8 Posts Dad’s Preemptive Acceptance Letter To Gay Son On Facebook
An extremely laid back dad has become a social hero over his response to overhearing his son’s plans to come out as a homosexual to his parents. A letter posted to Facebook this morning by the pro-gay clothing and accessory brand FCKH8 is going viral as an inspirational example of acceptance from father to son.…
Mark Zuckerberg Named Top CEO By His Own Employees
Mark Zuckerberg might be socially awkward but he’s open and accepting with his workers and that has made him the best CEO to work for according to his own employees. The team at Glassdoor just released its annual list of highest-rated CEO’s and Zuckerberg received a 99 percent approval rating. That rating is a 14 percent increase…