Facebook’s terms and conditions doesn’t allow businesses to operate a personal profile as these profiles are solely foreseen for real people and not for businesses. However, many businesses still use a personal page to promote their business. Most of them still struggle to convert their profile into a page as they would need to start [...]
There are so many posts on Facebook every day. Your friends write about their activities and emotions. It happens quite often that you think how boring this is and who might care about it. But sometimes there are funny and special characters within the mass of posts. Signs like ♥, ☼, ☎ make the typeface [...]
Welcome to our new series of monthly Facebook statistics in South Africa. This article provides you with the latest user numbers for Facebook in South Africa. 2 week ago, Marc Cowan, Head of Emerging Market at Facebook, gave a presentation in Cape Town on the social change. He said that soon South Africa will hit [...]
Many administrators of Facebook Pages didn’t like the fact that with the latest Pages update, wall posts were shown based on popularity and not in a chronological way. This new default view implied that most recent posts with no interactions quickly disappeared from the wall and that updates that have received a lot of Likes [...]
Facebook wants to become the key player for online communication and displace services like Skype, ICQ and email. In this context, Facebook just aquired Beluga, an eight-month old group text service which allows users to create groups in real-time and send messages to all the members of the group at once. The acquisition of Beluga [...]
Eminem is Facebook’s new most popular living person and has more than 28,880,000 fans on the biggest social networking site. The number of fans increases rapidly by every minutes that goes by. He adds up as many as 546,000 new fans each week. Only the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has with 29.1 million fans [...]
Last week, Google has updated its algorithm to rank web content for search phrases related to your social environment (‘Social Search‘). As a result, content generated on social media channels like Twitter, Youtube, LinkedIn, Blogger or Flickr will be applied to calculate the Google ranking. Information provided by Facebook users might be added to the [...]
After the successful revolution in Egypt which resulted in the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, an Egyptian called his first daughter after the social network Facebook. People were using Twitter and Facebook as an active platform to spread information, mobilise and organize protests and action against suffocation in an undemocratic system in Egypt. As a [...]
According to a new study from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research, America’s fastest growing private companies (Inc. 500) see success in the use of social media for marketing purposes. 85% of companies using social media view Facebook as succesful, 86% reported that Blogging is a successful tactic and 81% believe that [...]
Recently, I received some mails asking me the same question which is how one can remove the Facebook profile from coming up on Google and other search engines. There is an easy way to delete oneself from Google search. You just have to know how as this function is a little bit hidden in your [...]
