Articles about "social networks"

Of the 1bn users of social media worldwide, the vast majority of these are Facebook users. This platform has a staggering 901m monthly active users on its network. The figures that were compiled by the International Telecommunication Union confirm Facebook’s status as the number one social networking platform. It has… Read the rest...

Facebook has announced plans to launch its own app store in the coming weeks. The ‘App Centre’, as it’s called, will aim to showcase the best and most popular iOS, Android, mobile and web apps. The social networking site wants to create a hub page where people can discover the… Read the rest...

I hadn’t either until recently but this could be the next big rival to Facebook according to some insiders. Path is a ‘mobile-centric social network’ which was created incidentally by a former Facebook employee, Dave Morin, in 2010. Unlike Facebook though, Path markets itself very much as a private social network… Read the rest...

I find Facebook’s recent acquisition of Instagram, which is one of the most successful photography apps (30m users since launch 18 months ago) very peculiar. Firstly for those who don’t know, Instagram is a free app that allows you to take out pictures, apply a digital filter, and upload them… Read the rest...

The end of last month saw Facebook ‘force’ all company Facebook pages to adopt their controversial timeline feature. The timeline feature is also currently available for users on their personal pages if they wish. It is clear Facebook is slowly trying to phase out the ‘old’ Facebook profile page view and… Read the rest...