Facebook has tried to expand itself beyond the basic, generic mobile apps. These attempts have failed in the past but now the social network may have hit the gold with a new ‘Paper’ app for iOS which will be rolled out on February 3.
Facebook News Feed is a constantly updating list of stories from people and Pages that you follow on Facebook. However, lately it’s been reported that Facebook is now looking for “Editors” for its News App. The editors tell the Facebook users which news they should be reading.
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Do you know, while you are using Facebook, you are giving many companies a lot of information about yourself which it is selling to advertisers in one form or another. Do you want to know who the companies are and how to block them?
Nearly all the tech companies routinely pay bounty awards to security researchers for finding vulnerabilities in their services. But it’s quite rare to see a bounty to the tune of $33,500, which was recently grabbed by a researcher who found a remote execution bug in Facebook.
Facebook keeps changing its content algorithms in line with the feedback from its users. The social network has now tweaked the Newsfeed content so that it will contain more text-based status updates from friends, and fewer of these from Facebook Pages.
To many people, Facebook is “cool.” But if you ask anyone over the age of 30 if Facebook is cool or not, chances are the answer you will hear is “No.” Even U.S. President Barack Obama thinks Facebook isn’t cool anymore.
Facebook launched ‘Sponsored Stories’ in 2011. Sponsored Stories are a type of ad unit that appear on a user’s news feed when a friend engages with a certain brand that pays for the exposure. However, lately, Facebook has announced that it will kill the Sponsored Stories by April.
These days, most of the companies take social media to be a game of numbers. Get that many likes, this many followers and you will be all set. But Burger King’s Norway unit decided to take an entirely different approach by asking fans to unlike its Facebook page.