This week, it was reported Instagram now has 300 million monthly active users, bypassing Twitter’s 284 million. Some might find those numbers odd, considering how often the media urges users to tweet instead of sending in a picture. However, personally I find Instagram visually easier to look at and understand. When I log into the app, I feel less pressure, I feel immediacy and I feel more connected to my followers.
Continue reading “Instagram Trumps Twitter’s Numbers”According to Facebook product manager Greg Marra, there are about 1,500 different stories that can appear in a users News Feed on any given day. However, because of the algorithms behind the program, users only see about 150. If you’re one of many thinking how nice it would be to manage your News Feed, you’re in luck.
If you recall from a previous blog post, Facebook uses a formula called Edgerank to determine which of your friends’ posts you see the most often. But now, you can trump Edgerank.
That’s because Facebook unveiled a new settings menu and customization options for people to personalize the information they see. The News Feed setting shows which friends appear most and which you’ve chosen to unfollow. Users can then unfollow friends or chose to “re-connect” with ones you’ve previously kept hidden.
Is there a new social network sheriff in town? At one point, creators of the ad-free social network Ello thought it could be the next big thing. However since it launched a few weeeks ago, user numbers have seemed to collapse.
Ello launched in August by invitation-only to roughly 90 users. Creators thought in a few short months its user numbers could reach more than one million with up to 100,000 invite requests a day. However, this lofty goal was never achieved.
As mentioned before, Ello doesn’t use advertising, which has raised some eyebrows as to how it will generate money. According to a release, co-founder Paul Budnitz suggested users could “buy” extra features.
The network was aimed at a group of early Facebook users who left when the network required ‘real name’ logins.
So my Facebook friends, don’t worry about another social network competitor. As they say, another one bites the dust.