Facebook Fixes Bug Following Site Outage

UPDATE, May 9, 9:10 p.m. ET — The technical issue has been fixed. According to a Facebook spokesperson: "Earlier this afternoon we...

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RIP, Facebook Poke

Facebook quietly withdrew its Poke app from the iOS app store Friday, ending the run of an app that was both a Snapchat competitor and the...

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A Poem That Will Inspire You to Put Down Your Smartphone

Many of us can't escape social media. In private and in public, we're glued to our smartphones often at the expense of having a c...

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YouTube Creators Can Now Add a 3-Second Intro to All Their Videos

YouTube has added a new feature for content creators: they can now add a 3-second intro to all their videos. The intro will automatically ...

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Pinterest Adds Smarter Search Tool

Pinterest is adding new search features to help users better navigate the 30 billion pins on the site. The company just announced Guided...

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Twitter's New Profiles Are Now Available to Everyone

Twitter's redesigned profiles, which the company has been testing for months, are now available to everyone. The Facebook-like redes...

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75% of Brands' Facebook Posts Are Photos, Study Says

Ever since Facebook officially launched Timeline for businesses in 2012, brand marketers have found increasing success at engaging their a...

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LinkedIn Hits 300 Million Users Amid Mobile Push

LinkedIn proudly broadcasted its increasing mobile traffic last week, but that's not the only growth the company is experiencing. Li...

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Report: 44% of Registered Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted

Twitter power users are rare birds, according to a new report. Twopcharts , a site that monitors web activity, found that 44% of Twitter...

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Facebook Tweaks News Feed Algorithm to Combat 'Spammy' Posts

Facebook is tweaking its news feed algorithm again, this time to combat posts that contains "like-baiting," duplicate content an...

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Facebook's Not Messing Around: Messenger Will Be the Only Way to Chat on Mobile

When Facebook acquired standalone messaging app WhatsApp in February for $16 billion, the future of its own messaging app, Messenger, sudd...

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Twitter Rolls Out Its Facebook-Like Profile Redesign

Twitter is gradually rolling out a major redesign of user profiles, starting on Tuesday. The new look, which Twitter was testing in Februa...

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If Social Networks Were 'Game of Thrones' Houses

The state of social networks today has a lot in common with the fictional world of Westeros they're both filled with warring factions, t...

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