Coming to Your Twitter Feed: Ads That Preview Company Websites
Twitter is addressing its promise to surface new sorts of ads in the not so distant future. On Friday Twitter published Website Cards, another commercial ad unit that highlights a little photograph, a line of content, and a URL to a publicist’s site page. Twitter accepts this combo of a picture and a call to […]
Report: 44% of Registered Twitter Users Have Never Tweeted
Twitter power users are rare birds, according to a new report. Twopcharts, a site that monitors web activity, found that 44% of Twitter’s 974 million registered users have never tweeted, according to The Wall Street Journal. Some 30% of existing Twitter accounts have sent 10 or fewer tweets, and just 13% of registered accounts have […]
Twitter Rolls Out Its Facebook-Like Profile Redesign – Social Media
Twitter is gradually rolling out a major redesign of user profiles, starting on Tuesday. The new look, which Twitter was testing in February, adds a lot more user information and several new features — and it looks quite similar to Facebook’s user profiles. The new profile features a larger user photo and customizable header image. […]
Mouth-Watering Twitter Cake is Good Enough to Tweet
Social media junkies know there’s nothing better than humble-bragging about food. And this Twitter-themed cake from YouTube channel How To Cook That is sure to grab your followers by the taste buds. Ann Reardon, the baker behind How To Cook That, created a thorough video detailing how to create this impressive cake. While the recipe […]
Twitter Shares Soar to Record on Optimism for Mobile-Ad Growth
Twitter Inc., the microblogging service that held its initial public offering last month, rose to a record for a third trading day amid optimism that the company has room to expand sales in digital advertising. Twitter jumped 8.4% to $69.96 at the close in New York after rising 7.5% yesterday. The stock has surged 169% […]
Twitter Lets Brands Infiltrate TV Conversations Without Buying TV Ads
Twitter launched TV conversation targeting on Thursday, a feature that lets brands and networks promote tweets to users who engage in specific shows, even if the brand isn’t running a TV ad during the program. As the company wrote in its advertising blog: “Now advertisers can easily reach Twitter users exposed to integrations, sponsorships, and […]
Twitter Now Running Pre-Roll Ads
Twitter’s post-IPO monetization quest continues with a new unit that runs ads from American Express before video snippets from Fox programming. The brand will run such ads before videos from Fox shows including Glee, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and So You Think You Can Dance, among other shows, Jean Rossi, EVP of sales for Fox Broadcasting, told […]
Twitter Dethrones Facebook as Teens’ Favorite Social Network for Shopping
Twitter beat out Facebook in the battle for teenagers’ preferred social networks for online shopping. In a recent survey of teens’ retail behavior, participants were asked about their favorite networks, and 26% responded that it was Twitter. Facebook and Instagram each captured the hearts of 23% of survey respondents. Clearly, Instagram’s rising popularity among teens […]
How Twitter’s Business Compares to Facebook’s
Ever since Twitter revealed last month that it had filed confidential paperwork to go public, the company has been compared to what is arguably its biggest competitor, Facebook. However, the S-1 form that the company filed Thursday shows that the two companies are in fact miles apart — for better or worse. In comparison to […]
Twitter Updates Embedded Tweets With Richer Photos
About two months after Facebook introduced embedded posts that include photos, Twitter has upgraded its embeds to better showcase its photos. Twitter, which announced the move on its blog on Thursday, illustrated the upgrade with this Aug. 11 tweet from astronaut Chris Hadfield: Good morning! Perspective – Sunday is a fine day to go for […]
