Twitter CFO Ned Segal says that Twitter’s work over the last couple of years designed to improve advertiser ROI and success on the platform is starting to resonate with advertisers.
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Henry Blodget Says that Thinking Twitter was the next Facebook was Absurd
“But I do think that the big problem with Twitter was expectations just got absurdly out of whack a few years ago,” Blodget said. “People thought, oh, it’s the next Facebook. It was always actually this niche product.”
Intelligence Expert: How Twitter and Facebook Are Being Co-Opted by Governments for Control
Sophisticated automated bots are being increasingly used on Twitter and Facebook by foreign governments as a method to silence dissent and to target journalist, according to Sam Wooley, Digital Intelligence Lab director.
Kara Swisher on Tech: A Lot of Their Inventions Are Very Damaging to Society
Should tech companies be hiring Chief Ethics Officers in order to get better at self-examination? That’s the question posed by Kara Swisher, internet pioneer and Recode editor at large, in a New York Times column today.
Vivek Wadhwa: Facebook is a Defective Product and Should be Held Liable
Should social media companies be held liable for creating products that make people hate each other? Harvard Law School Distinguished Fellow Vivek Wadhwa says yes they should.
Pinterest’s Latest ‘Product Pin’ Feature Gives Sellers 40% More Clicks
Pinterest is doing everything it can to make shopping even better for its users. The…
Conservatives See Facebook War Room As War on Them
Facebook has created a War Room ahead of the midterm election that is filled with data scientists and specialists trying to stop the spread of what it considers fake news.
5 Social Media Tactics You Need to STOP Using (And What You Should Do Instead)
These days, it seems like everybody is using social media. You’d be hard-pressed to find…
How to get real followers for Instagram in 2018
With 25 million business profiles on Instagram, we’re living in a time where it is…
Analyst Says that Google Already Dominates the Media Business
When does Google dominate the media business? “They already do,” says Brian Wieser, senior research analyst at Pivotal Research. “The reality is from a time consumption perspective, from an ad spending perspective, there’s nothing like Google.”