Twitpic, which was once the largest photo sharing service for Twitter users, has been acquired and will continue offering their service. We're happy to announce we've been acquired and Twitpic will live on! We will post more details as we can disclose them — TwitPic (@TwitPic) September 18, 2014 Twitpic announced they were closing earlier […]
Twitter Adds New Ads Tools for Tailored Audiences
Twitter has added new tools for advertisers to help them target tailored audiences for their sponsored tweet campaigns. Today, we’re releasing new tools to make it even easier to create, manage and activate your tailored audiences on Twitter. The new features include audience list upload capability, better audience management tools, new supported ID types for […]
Twitter Officially Introduces Buy Now Buttons on Tweets
Twitter has been dropping lots of hints about a planned ecommerce addition to tweets in the past couple of months. And those plans have finally been realized with the launch of “Buy Now” buttons in tweets. The new program is open to select Twitter accounts at this time, including Burberry, Rihanna and RED, however only […]
Twitter Advertising launches in 11 new countries
Twitter has expanded their self-service advertising offering to 11 new countries. Advertising is now available to businesses in: Argentina Chile Colombia Ecuador Guatemala Mexico Peru Belgium Italy Luxembourg Netherlands This follows on the heels of the launch of Twitter advertising in 12 new countries a couple of weeks ago, which focused on countries in Central […]
Twitpic Shutting Down After Trademark Dispute with Twitter
It is a sad day for Twitpic users after they have announced they are shutting down after getting into a trademark dispute with Twitter. A few weeks ago Twitter contacted our legal demanding that we abandon our trademark application or risk losing access to their API. This came as a shock to us since Twitpic has […]
Twitter favorites & follows only show in timeline when no updates twice in a row
When Twitter began showing favorites and follows in the Twitter timeline, there was a lot of confusion about why this would trigger. Some users were seeing it consistently, while others weren’t seeing it at all. According to a tweet by Twitter CEO Dick Costello, Twitter will show favorites (and presumably follows, which I also verified) […]
Facebook Will Target Ad Types Based on User’s Internet Connection
If you use a lot of rich media advertising on Facebook, you may want to rethink that strategy with some new changes Facebook has made with their ad targeting based on the user’s internet speed at the time they are served ads, also called bandwidth targeting. While Facebook says they expect this to primarily affect […]
Twitter Analytics Available to All Users
If you have a personal Twitter account, you will be happy to know that Twitter now has analytics available to all users. Twitter launched an analytics dashboard last month, but it was only available to a select group of people – primarily advertisers and those users with a verified account. Otherwise, marketers were forced to […]
Twitter Ads Available in 12 Additional Countries
Twitter has expanded their Twitter Ads to twelve additional countries, according to Ali Jafari, VP of Direct Sales, Europe in a blog post. The new countries are: Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine and Portugal.. There has been tremendous growth in this region over the last year, […]
“Buy Now” in Tweets Closer to Launch with Stripe Payment Processing Partnership
Twitter is a step closer to launching product purchasing from directly within a tweet. Payment startup company Stripe is reportedly providing payment services for the new feature of a “Buy Now” on a product related tweet. “Buy now” buttons were temporarily seen on product related tweets by Fancy earlier this year, however they didn’t have […]