Better geo-tagging of tweets is coming soon with a partnership between Foursquare and Twitter. Since Foursquare split the check-in functionality of their app to a second app Swarm, Facebook has become a more popular avenue for social media users to check in to locations on mobile devices. And while Twitter had been rumored to be […]
Archives for March 24, 2015
Facebook Wants to Host Linked Articles From Partnered News Sites
Last October TheSEMPost reported that Facebook was considering hosting third-party content right on Facebook when users link to it in a Facebook post, rather than just allowing users to leave Facebook by clicking on the link to read the article. Well, it appears that Facebook is doing just that, and the implications of it to […]
Twitter Adds Quality Filtering for Verified Users
Tech blogger Anil Dash spotted a new feature that popped up in his verified Twitter account today… the ability to add a quality filter to the notifications timeline. It aims to remove tweets that “contain threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content, or are sent from suspicious accounts”. Well, that's an interesting & welcome addition, […]
Third Party Sites Can Finally Embed Comments from Reddit
Reddit has often been a goldmine of information for website owners, and has been a major source of content for sites such as Buzzfeed, ViralNova, and the like. But while Reddit is hugely popular, the lack of an embedding feature for third party sites meant many attributions to Reddit were added in tiny font, if […]
Twitter Begins Testing Autoplay Videos for iOS Users
Twitter has followed the lead of both Facebook and YouTube by testing autoplay videos that appear in the news stream for some Twitter users. The test is for users on Twitter through the iOS apps on both iPhone and iPad. Some users will see the videos autoplay in their entirety. Others will only see a […]