The time spent on the platform experienced a 4.3 percent decrease, possibly indicating some users exploring Threads as an alternative
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Twitter’s Elon Musk reacts to Mark Zuckerberg’s new Threads app
Threads is Instagram’s new text-sharing app is reportedly being labelled as Twitter’s biggest threat
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Twitter rival Threads is now live and gathers 2 million users in 2 hours
Users in 27 European Union countries will have to wait until Meta gets regulatory clearance and clarity on the upcoming Digital Markets Act
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Instagram ‘resolved bug’ as users face suspended accounts and loss of followers
The social media platform was down for many users across the world, sparking backlash
California
Privacy fine set-aside dents Facebook’s profit
Facebook logged a profit of $2.4 billion – down 51 percent from a year earlier – on revenue that climbed 26 percent to $15.1 billion in the first three months of this year.
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Facebook hires new MD to build Middle East audience
Ramez T Shehadi named managing director of Facebook in the Middle East as social network eyes growth in ‘key market’
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Influencers are here to stay…
Two weeks ago, Anil Bhoyrul questioned the role of influencers in today’s market – and suggested the world would be better off without them. ITP Live Director Alia Fawad explains why she thinks Bhoyrul got it all wrong.
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg makes case for shift to Video, Instagram
Mark Zuckerberg warned the newer products may make less money and steal user attention from the main stream of photos, comments and lucrative ads on the social network
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Twitter profits jump to ignite share price boost
US-based social network reports $789m profit in the third quarter of 2018 compared to $21m loss in same period last year
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Facebook to limit use of data brokers for ad targeting
Social-media giant has been taking steps to rebuild consumer trust in its data-privacy practices
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Dubai to launch “Insta Hub” for female e-traders
The event is being launched to help females with social networking-based e-businesses to market themselves in the UAE and abroad.
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Revealed: how much marketers spend on social media influencer campaigns
Fees requested by social media influencers are ‘reasonable,’ said 63 percent of those surveyed
Business
Opinion: how social media can make or break you
Without a keen understanding of social media platforms and what they can do, businesses will fall by the wayside in the connected age
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Facebook’s next move in the Middle East
Facebook has made billions of dollars from building a massive audience that is willing to share a level of detail that advertisers previously only dreamed of knowing. As technology rapidly develops, it has many more plans to keep users – and those advertisers – coming back for more, says Jonathan Labin, managing director for Facebook Middle East
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Video: Twitter doubles its limit to 280 characters
The experiment is over and Twitter’s about to change.
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Videos: Twitter doubles its character limit
For the first time in history, Twitter is doubling its character count for tweets from 140 characters to 280 characters for some users.
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Twitter tests doubling 140 character limit
Twitterverse atwitter over expanded tweet limit