Facebook Lowers Age Rule to Allow Teens to Post Publicly
Facebook is giving its teenage users a public voice on the platform. For the first time, beginning Wednesday, users between the ages of 13 and 17 will be able to post publicly and obtain followers of their profiles. Previously, teens using Facebook were only able to share content with friends, friends of friends and custom […]
Facebook Finally Lets You Edit Posts – Facebook Marketing
If autocorrect has ever ruined your Facebook post, your prayers have been answered. Facebook introduced the ability to edit status updates starting Thursday. The latest update for the Android Facebook app adds the ability to “edit your posts and comments and tap to see all your changes.” However, the editing has not been enabled on […]
Your Facebook ‘Like’ Is Now Protected by the U.S. Constitution
Clicking “Like” on a Facebook post or page is now a form of speech protected by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, according to an opinion issued on Wednesday by a federal appeals court, which overturned a previous ruling to the contrary. The decision (.PDF) to consider a Facebook “Like” as protected speech may set a […]
Facebook Sells ‘Social Butterfly Blue’ Nail Polish- Facebook Marketing
You can now wear Facebook pride on your fingertips. The company is currently selling a shade of nail polish, “social butterfly blue” at its campus store in Menlo Park, Calif. Although Facebook told Mashable it added the polish to its collection of branded swag at the beginning of the year, its existence was recently brought […]
Report: Users Are Engaging More With Facebook Ads
A quarterly review of Facebook’s ad performance found increases in advertising metrics across the board, including click-through rates, total clicks and revenues driven by the ads themselves. Kenshoo Social, a digital marketing company that works with “hundreds” of customers that advertise on Facebook, explored more than 75 billion Facebook ads over the past two quarters, […]
Researcher: Advertise Your Facebook Post Within 24 Hours or Don’t Bother
If your brand just posted a status on Facebook, don’t waste time waiting to amplify it with an ad buy. If you don’t do so within 24 hours, you will lose a great deal of the engagement and viral impressions that would have been generated by posting earlier. This is the gist of new research […]
