Pinterest Goes Native with Advertising for Brands and Businesses

The fastest rising online social network is quickly becoming the Internet’s most promising platform for marketing and advertising. Pinterest, the network that describes itself as a visual discovery tool, is…

Facebook Introduces New Tools For Page Owners To Promote Their Events

There are 400 million people around the world using events on Facebook every month, the company stated in an announcement. Nearly 30% of all those events are are created by…

3 Ways to Create a Hashtag Monitoring Dashboard

I’ve always loved playing with hashtags. I can proudly say I was an early adopter (I can’t say the same about Facebook but I do love using hashtags on Google Plus).…

What Really Happens When Someone Clicks Your Facebook Like Button

Funny, we’ve had the Facebook Like button along the side of every Buffer blog post for the past several years. And I don’t think I’ve ever clicked it. I’ve hoped that…

Twitter Opens Up Its Analytics Dashboard To All Users

It has been a good news day if you love social media analytics. First, Pinterest introduces a new analytics platform, and now Twitter opens up its analytics dashboard to everyone.…

Pinterest Introduces A New Analytics Platform For Business Users

 Pinterest often hears from businesses who change their product and marketing strategies based on insights learned on the platform, the company stated in an announcement. In an effort to continue…

Instagram’s New Hyperlapse App Lets You Turn Videos Into Time Lapses

 Instragram stated in an announcement today that one of their priorities has always been to provide users with “simple yet powerful tools that let people capture moments and express their…

Facebook Cracks Down On Clickbait With An Update To The News Feed

Facebook recently announced some some improvements to its News that promise weed out posts that users don’t want to see anymore because they’re too “spammy”. Facebook will be updating its…

Twitter To Team Up With Stripe To Insert A ‘Buy Now’ Button Into Tweets

 In January, Re/code reported that Twitter and Stripe were in talks to work together on something but nothing had been finalized at that time. Sources have told Re/code that the…