Social Media Technology News
The Social Media Tech News category covers platform updates, product launches, feature changes, and technology trends shaping social networks. Here you’ll find news about how major platforms evolve, how social tools are built, and how new technologies influence online communication.
This section is designed for professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts who want to follow the technical and strategic side of social media, from new platform capabilities to changes that affect users, brands, and digital ecosystems.
Search social profiles across multiple platforms
Users Search helps you find public profiles by name or username across social networks. It’s useful for researching digital identities, discovering related accounts, and tracking how people or brands appear across platforms.
Browse public Facebook profiles without logging in
The Unofficial Facebook Viewer lets you explore publicly available Facebook profiles, posts, and pages outside the standard Facebook interface, making it easier to research content and observe platform activity.
The social network introduced a radically new design of the friendship pages. If you want to see how close you are online with a particular friend or a member of your family, your friendship page with him will show all the posts, photos and events that you shared online together.
This is a great feature – especially for those ones who are in a “relationship” with another user in Facebook.
Features like friendship pages highlight how much personal and shared content exists on Facebook profiles. Many users are also interested in browsing this kind of public-facing information outside Facebook itself. A facebook viewer tool makes it possible to explore publicly available Facebook profiles, posts, and photos in one place.
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Social Searcher team is glad to present social media study about US Elections candidates mentions on Facebook and Twitter. We thought that it might be interesting to measure up the last 7 days of the elections race when most of people get their final choise.
Recently launched Social Buzz search engine was used for gathering data.
Do you think social mentions information can forecast the result of election? Then go on reading and get some more interesting facts.
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The stock quotes of the world’s largest social network climbed 10% after the publication of the mobile advertising revenue report which grew by 14 percent in the Q3 2012.
According to the report, in the third quarter of this year, the social network increased its total revenue by 32% up to $ 1.26 billion, topper forecasts of the analysts.
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The European Marketing Agency KRDS published a new 1 billion Facebook users infographic, which worth to have a look.
Let’s go deeper and try to understand what is behind this huge 1 billion number.
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A few days ago Facebook overcame 1 billion users level (we highlighted analysts predictions of this fact before), and Mark Zuckerberg said about his hopes for the future union of the world in Facebook.
It’s a good time to think about the future of the social network and whether it will even exist, for example, in 10 years?
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Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had a meeting with the founder of the social network Facebook Mark Zuckerberg. Dmitry Medvedev and Mark Zuckerberg discussed the possibility of the Facebook presence in Russia as a software development company.
Participants of the meeting also talked about IT business in Russia, the problems of copyrights in the Internet and prospects of the startups in the “Skolkovo”.
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Members of groups in the social network will be able to share files that were uploaded to the Dropbox “cloud” storage, with other team members, according to a Dropbox company blog.
“Today we’re psyched to announce that you can share stuff from Dropbox right inside Facebook Groups! Now you can share notes with your study group, add the latest game schedule to your basketball team’s group, or post a birthday video to your family’s group at lightning speed from wherever you are”, – mentioned in the blogpost.
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Previoulsy we had a look on the Facebook office inside, and now Mark Zuckerberg invited legendary architect Frank Gehry to design a new campus for the social network employees in Silicon Valley.
It should be a unique workspace for 3400 engineers that support and update the most popular social network in the world.
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The social network Facebook released an updated application for iOS (iPhone and iPad). In the new 5.0 version the company tried to eliminate the problem, which caused the most complaints from the users in the past – low speed.
Facebook declares that the new version is faster and uses less system resources.
“We’ve rebuilt the app from the ground up, so now the app opens much faster and your news feed and notifications load right when you open Facebook,” – said Mick Johnson, the company’s product manager.
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The Russian-language Wikipedia website was shut down on Tuesday 10 July. Now it has a stark black line across its main page in protest at a bill, which may be used to censor the Russian internet.
“Imagine a world without free knowledge,” it said in a statement. Russian parliament will discuss on Wednesday amendments to an information law and they “could lead to the creation of extrajudicial censorship of the whole Russian-language internet”.
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