David Marcus will lead Facebook’s messaging items, the organization proclaimed in a press release on this Monday.

Marcus confirmed the move with a post to Facebook, which could be found in its whole at the lowest part of this post.

“While I was amidst my manner of thinking about what was next for me, Mark Zuckerberg and I got together. Imprint imparted a forcing vision about portable informing,” Marcus composed. “At the outset, I didn’t know whether an alternate huge organization gig was a decent thing for me, yet Mark’s excitement, and the unparalleled range and customer engagement of the Facebook stage eventually won me over.”

Facebook made a sprinkle in the informing scene with its $19 billion acquisition of Whatsapp. The organization additionally published on Monday the dispatch of Slingshot, its new informing application that has comparable usefulness to Snapchat.

The capability to connect cash to messages is seen as a real method for creating money out of the prevalent informing business. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said after the Whatsapp obtaining that he doesn’t see promoting as see adds as the best approach to adapt informing.

Whatsapp will purportedly not be under Marcus and keep on operaing freely.

The Financial Times reported in April that Facebook was preparing an online payments framework that would first introduced in Ireland and crosswise over Europe.

Facebook right now considers in-application installments in the U.s. In 2011, the informal community endeavored to kickstart its own particular cash with Facebook Credits, yet shut the project.

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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 tweeted more than 100 times. Twopcharts is unable to discern whether users have logged onto their accounts. Its report is based on users’ activity.

The report, which was released Friday, comes after Twitter disclosed in February that it had 244 million active monthly users in the last three months of 2013, meaning about 730 million people have created accounts on the site, but are not active on a monthly basis.

Twopcharts has previously reported that of the 284.4 million new accounts in 2013, only 12.9% were still tweeting in February 2014.

Realizing that some new users find its experience hard to navigate, Twitter has introduced enhancements lately including restyled, Facebook-like user profile pages and pop-up notifications on its website.

For Twitter, increasing engagement helps fight churn, since active users are less likely to abandon the service. Tweeting, favoriting and resharing also help Twitter to target ads for users since by taking such actions, the users indicate their preferences and interests.

The report comes as Twitter’s stock price is flirting with its all-time low. At this writing, the stock was hovering around $40 in early trading. The stock has traded for as low as $38.80.

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The new profile features a larger user photo and customizable header image. Twitter highlights your tweets that have the most engagement by displaying them slightly larger than the rest. You can also pin one of your tweets to the top of the page.

Furthermore, you can now choose which timeline to view when checking out a profile page. You can see all tweets, tweets with photos and videos only, or just tweets and replies.

As for the similarities of Twitter’s new user profiles to Facebook’s profile page, well, they’re inescapable. There’s a square profile photo in the top left, and a large “cover” photo on top dominates both pages, for example. Below the profile photo you’ll find the basic info about the user, and under that is photos and friends. The only real difference there is that on Twitter’s user profiles, photos are placed below your followers, and Facebook has it the other way around. It’ll be interesting to see what the users think of the new look — especially those that are not overly fond of Facebook.

The new profile design is already live for a handful of celebrities, including Zac Efron, Channing Tatum, Floyd Mayweather and John Legend, and it will also show up for new users. The rest of us will have to wait as the new look rolls out over the “coming weeks.”

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But are they getting substantial returns on their investment? Are they able to target the right segment of the audience who would actually be interested in their product as in whatever it is a movie, a documentary or a TV serial. Perhaps no!

Then why are the trendsetters not able to recognize the trend of marketing and switch to digital than still practicing the same old traditional marketing and splurging money like anything.

Let’s go ahead and see how digital marketing can help Bollywood and your business.

Specific Targeting

First thing first! Specific targeting! Spending money is not a big issue if you get an appreciable amount of customers by doing so. By advertising on TV, Radio , newspapers or through posters you simply broadcast your information to the masses and who all would interested will become your customers however how about if you can specifically target your ads to these ‘who all’ . Certainly, you will get better results and will save a lot of money too. This is what you can do in digital marketing. Whether they are the ads on search engines or various websites, they are only displayed if your buyers’ persona matches your ads. So, depending on your product, you very well know what part of the audience will need it and that through digital marketing you can extend your offer to only that part of the audience. Chances of any miss outs on it are kind of negligible here.

Cost-Effective

Not only you can put across your message to the right segment of the audience but you also save a lot of money in digital marketing. You only spend where you need to and that too far lesser than what you were paying in the traditional marketing.

Measure it at its every part

The best thing about digital marketing is that you can monitor traffic and results and optimize your advertising campaigns accordingly. The tool called analytics in digital marketing helps you measure different ad campaigns with respect to traffic and other results. Thus, you get to have a better idea of what part of your budget is bringing result and what part is going waste so that you take actions in view of that.

Customer Engagement

Being interactive in design digital marketing lets the customer to interact and get engaged. Unlike the traditional marketing, here the user has the command to browse through whatever they wish to, making it far more interactive and engaging. Gone are those days when your audience will entertain your ads even on getting interrupted by you while they are on their go. They would simply change the channel on TV or radio, or overlook the ad on newspaper. No one loves interruption marketing now. Recognize this trend and switch to digital marketing. The sooner you switch the better results you gain.

Generating awareness for your business and spreading business defying all geographical constraints are something that you can do with traditional marketing as well the only difference is that in digital marketing you do the same thing at relatively very low cost and in a more specifically targeted way. In simple words, digital marketing is far more effective than traditional marketing and that too at relatively very low cost.

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But are they getting substantial returns on their investment? Are they able to target the right segment of the audience who would actually be interested in their product as in whatever it is a movie, a documentary or a TV serial. Perhaps no!

Then why are the trendsetters not able to recognize the trend of marketing and switch to digital than still practicing the same old traditional marketing and splurging money like anything.

Let’s go ahead and see how digital marketing can help Bollywood and your business.

Specific Targeting

First thing first! Specific targeting! Spending money is not a big issue if you get an appreciable amount of customers by doing so. By advertising on TV, Radio , newspapers or through posters you simply broadcast your information to the masses and who all would interested will become your customers however how about if you can specifically target your ads to these ‘who all’ . Certainly, you will get better results and will save a lot of money too. This is what you can do in digital marketing. Whether they are the ads on search engines or various websites, they are only displayed if your buyers’ persona matches your ads. So, depending on your product, you very well know what part of the audience will need it and that through digital marketing you can extend your offer to only that part of the audience. Chances of any miss outs on it are kind of negligible here.

Cost-Effective

Not only you can put across your message to the right segment of the audience but you also save a lot of money in digital marketing. You only spend where you need to and that too far lesser than what you were paying in the traditional marketing.

Measure it at its every part

The best thing about digital marketing is that you can monitor traffic and results and optimize your advertising campaigns accordingly. The tool called analytics in digital marketing helps you measure different ad campaigns with respect to traffic and other results. Thus, you get to have a better idea of what part of your budget is bringing result and what part is going waste so that you take actions in view of that.

Customer Engagement

Being interactive in design digital marketing lets the customer to interact and get engaged. Unlike the traditional marketing, here the user has the command to browse through whatever they wish to, making it far more interactive and engaging. Gone are those days when your audience will entertain your ads even on getting interrupted by you while they are on their go. They would simply change the channel on TV or radio, or overlook the ad on newspaper. No one loves interruption marketing now. Recognize this trend and switch to digital marketing. The sooner you switch the better results you gain.

Generating awareness for your business and spreading business defying all geographical constraints are something that you can do with traditional marketing as well the only difference is that in digital marketing you do the same thing at relatively very low cost and in a more specifically targeted way. In simple words, digital marketing is far more effective than traditional marketing and that too at relatively very low cost.

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But Zuckerberg also knows you could be reading Facebook more in any given day. What about those times when you’re just skimming the app during a spare minute? What if you don’t have time to read any of those fascinating links?

If you’ve ever gone hunting through your feed for an article you saw earlier, you’ll welcome the news that Facebook appears to be testing a “save for later” feature. This isn’t the first time the company has tested the idea, but it does appear to be more advanced and closer to wide release.

The concept first cropped up on a version of the Facebook app for iPhone and iPad in 2012. In that iteration, you held your finger on a story to save it to a separate list. Now, according to the blog MyTechSkool, which first spotted it, users will see a button with a bookmark icon they can press.

This is what apps such as Instapaper, Pocket and Read It Later have been doing for years, of course. The Apple browser, Safari, added a similar feature called Reading List (available on mobile in iOS6 and on the desktop with Mac OS X Mavericks).

But the Facebook feature differs in significant ways. First of all, you can save more than just articles — in theory, you’ll be able to set aside anything from your cousin’s holiday snaps to a change in your secret crush’s relationship status. Call it a social To Do list.

Secondly, it allows you to do your later reading within Facebook — meaning Zuckerberg gets to monitor and monetize ever more of your reading behavior. What we don’t know yet: whether you’ll be able to read those articles, links and saved social snippets when you’re offline.

We’ve reached out to Facebook to find out when the company intends to roll this out to all users. In the meantime, let us know in the comments below whether you see the Saved feature yet.

[via AllthingsD]

Image: Stephen Lam, Getty Images News

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For many, that was the takeaway from an Oct. 10 Piper Jaffray study of 8,650 teens. That conclusion was false. The study had a much narrower focus than has been reported and only referred to purchasing activity on the platforms.

This key paragraph in the press release explaining the study caused the confusion (emphasis ours):

Teens have cited “friends” as the strongest influence over their purchase decisions for the duration of our survey history, but “Internet” is quickly rising in profile. More than half of teens indicate that social media impacts their purchases with Twitter being the most important, eclipsing Facebook, followed closely by Instagram. But the popularity of Facebook is waning among teens with 23% citing it as the most important, down from 33% six months ago and 42% a year ago.

There’s no doubt the report shows bad news for Facebook. However, the data refers to importance for purchases. The ambiguous wording of the presser — including remarks about the “popularity” of the social networks — didn’t help. After all, it was possible to read the last sentence as its own entity in which “most important” referred to most important overall.

That may be the case, but that’s not what Piper Jaffray was asking about. A rep for the financial advisor says the study was looking specifically at buying behavior and wasn’t trying to determine whether teens prefer Twitter to Facebook overall.

This sounds like great news for Twitter. Yet it’s unclear how much of teens’ purchasing activity is actually spurred by the social network. A study last year by IBM found that it had exactly zero effect on Black Friday sales. Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube didn’t fare much better, generating only 0.34% of online sales on Black Friday.

It’s also true that Twitter is gaining popularity with teens: A Pew Research study in May showed that the number of teens on Twitter doubled from 2011 to 26%. Yet 94% of teens reported being on Facebook. The “teens are tired of Facebook” narrative also picked up over the summer when Mashable ran an op-ed by 13 year-old Ruby Karp explaining that neither she nor her friends were on Facebook.

Nevertheless, researcher The Futures Company, which looks closely at teens’ behavior, has found that while Facebook use has plateaued (which tends to happen when you hit 94%), teens still aren’t leaving the social network en masse.

All of which is to say that there may be something to the persistent narrative that teens are getting sick of Facebook. The Piper Jaffray report doesn’t make that case.

Source: Mashable

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Airtel Digital TV, an arm of Indian telecommunications company Bharti Airtel, revealed Monday that it has integrated Twitter with its digital TV offerings for the first time. With this new form of convergence, users can actually tweet while watching TV and can view tweets related to their TV shows as well. It launches Tuesday at no extra charge to subscribers.

Jana Messerschmidt, Twitter’s VP of business development and platforms, said, “We are excited to see partners like Airtel innovating with our platform and helping their audience connect with the TV programs they love.”

Airtel’s Twitter know-how actually comes from Bangalore-based startup Brizz TV, which works in the areas of TV technology and is powering this new service for Airtel Digital TV. To start watching-and-tweeting, subscribers just have to click their remote’s green button. Initially, the service will be available on select TV channels, but more will be added.

Airtel Digital TV has 373 channels including 17 high definition and five interactive channels. It claimed to have 8.5 million subscribers at the end of June 2013.

Although Airtel hasn’t disclosed the business model of this partnership with Twitter, it’s fairly safe to assume that the telco will stream targeted Twitter ads and marketing promotions to its TV subscribers. Airtel could also use this to better promote its other Internet services. Since the voice and SMS business is no longer the prime revenue generator in India, it is forcing telcos to innovate and develop new ways to get income.

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Facebook also disclosed that from September 2012 to September 2013, Time’s referral traffic rose 208%, BuzzFeed’s increased by 855% and Bleacher Report experienced a boost of 1,081%. Facebook also announced a feature called Stories to Share for page managers of media firms that recommends which stories to share on Facebook.

Andy Mitchell, director of partnerships for Facebook, attributes much of the growth in referrals to improvements in Facebook’s News Feed algorithm. “We’re getting better at showing the right story at people who are interested in it,” he says. In addition, Facebook has shared best practices with media firms, which help them post more effectively, he says.

New research from SimpleReach bolsters the claim. SimpleReach found that Facebook drives more traffic to media sites than any other social media platform.

Meanwhile, Facebook had some advice to media firms: Post more. Facebook worked with 29 media sites over a seven-day period recently and found a greater number of posts “frequently” increases referral traffic by more than 80%. During that test period the site posted 57% more articles, which netted an 89% increase in outbound clicks to their domains plus 10% more Likes on average. The number of net fans per page rose 49%.

That said, Mitchell does acknowledge that the law of diminishing returns applies: At some point, you can overload fans with too many posts. Facebook doesn’t have a recommended number of posts. Mitchell says media properties have to determine a figure on their own.

Along the same lines, Stories to Share helps those media firms figure out which stories to post next. The recommendation widget is pretty straightforward: It analyzes your homepage to see which stories people are sharing the most on Facebook even though the media property hasn’t yet shared it through its Facebook account. That feature is going live on Monday with 1,5000 news organizations. Stories to Share had been in beta with a handful of news organizations (the company declined to identify which ones) over the past few weeks.

The emphasis on media partners comes as Facebook has recently revved competition with the much-smaller Twitter for ad-spending opportunities related to real-time marketing like second-screen conversations and trending news items. Encouraging news organizations to post more often will aid a Trending Articles feature that seems to be a likely next move for the company.

Image: Getty/KIMIHIRO HOSHINO

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While the outage may have been a headache for Facebook and many users, some brands decided to turn it into a marketing opportunity — for better or worse:

#Facebookdown Grab your Venus razor and Embrace your extra "me" time. pic.twitter.com/pUYjLVobBb

— Gillette Venus (@GilletteVenus) October 21, 2013

#facebookdown? Ci pensiamo noi. pic.twitter.com/NLKDR5j47s

— Red Bull Italy (@redbullITA) October 21, 2013

Facebook is down, but don't worry, here’s our status update: thirsty #facebookdown pic.twitter.com/RJXVWkvnur

— Jupiler (@Jupiler) October 21, 2013

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