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.
It’s not a secret that Facebook team likes to experiment with design and test all kinds of innovations.
You may noticed that in April, the size of the Facebook timeline cover image was changed to a bigger one. Facebook decided not to stop on this, and prepared some new changes for the timeline’s design.
They are as follows:
Mark Zuckerberg married to the longtime girlfriend on the next day after the Facebook IPO. For the guests the wedding was a surprise – they thought that they were invited because of another occasion.
Mashable reports that Facebook rolls out file-sharing feature for groups. It is available now only in Facebook Groups for Schools, which can be joined only by users with the valid email address of the particular college or university. In the nearest future, sharing of the files on Facebook will be available for everyone in any group.
As Facebook groups expand and more content is shared publicly, people increasingly look for ways to discover and explore this information outside the platform. A facebook viewer tool can help surface public Facebook posts, pages, and profiles related to groups and discussions.
81 year old billionaire Warren Buffett said that he is not going to buy shares in Facebook but also mentioned that he doesn’t consider Facebook as a second dotcom bubble. “People get excited about companies that have done that well.”
The Daily Telegraph reported Mr Buffett saying: “It is not a bubble… this is not what we were seeing in late 1999 all the way into 2001. We aren’t in any bubble phase of anything.”
Yesterday, Facebook introduced the new function, which is called “Action Link”. This link will appear next to the Like and Comment ones, but its main purpose will be to “interact with your timeline app directly from Facebook.”
In the U.S. about 7 thousand people die each year while waiting for organ transplants. Facebook hopes to reduce that number by creating a special application which allows users to become donors, without leaving the social network, reports The New York Times.
Facebook decided to start the initial public offering (IPO) on 18 May, according to the Associated Press. This is considered to be the most anticipated financial event after the Google’s entering the stock market in August 2004.
Facebook reported 900 million registered users, so we’ve got a question: when will Facebook have Billion Users? Back in February, some analysts attempted to predict the month of this billion user registration, and perhaps they were very close to the truth, but maybe not.
Yesterday we got new information provided by the Irish bookmaking agency Paddy Power: August or September.
4 months ago we already had an overview of updated Facebook App for Android, yesterday Facebook released new version 1.9 of the application.
According to official blog post, Facebook for Android 1.9 includes:
It’s been about six months since Facebook presented Timeline for pages. Now the social network introduces next innovation: starting from this week, each Timeline Page will get an email address.
