Alexa Ferragine

Alexa Ferragine is a Junior Communication major at Cabrini College and one of the current Bad Rhino Blog Manager Interns. Alexa assists in publishing posts, scheduling social updates and reaching out to potential guest bloggers on Twitter.

Pinterest Now Allows You to Schedule Pins Via Buffer

  According to Buffer, Pinterest is now making it possible for businesses to build or increase their presence on social via the introduction of scheduling and measuring pins. Pinning is a strategy that has been known for a while to increase web traffic and general exposure for brands. In order to increase the odds of reaching a bigger […]

Facebook Wants to Make Your News Feed More Friend-Focused

Soon enough, Facebook users will start to see fewer updates from Pages popping up on their News Feed. Instead, friend updates will reign supreme. According to The Verge, users will see more posts in their News Feed of “friends they care about” higher up in their News Feed. Pages created by advertisers and brands will therefore appear less your News Feed. […]

Twitter Debuts New Look

Twitter has become a a big part of where people are able to see what is going on in the world. According to Twitter, a big change will be happening for users who have a Twitter account but do not necessarily log in every day or even every week. Twitter is making it so they are […]

Twitter Launches 'Retweet with Comment' Feature

According to techcrunch.com, Twitter is now releasing a ‘Retweet with Comment’ feature, which Twitter has been testing since last summer. The new feature now allows Twitter users to embed a tweet into their own tweet, allowing them to essentially write their own commentary to a tweet. Say more with revamped quote Tweet! Rolling out on iPhone […]

Need to Talk to a Brand on Facebook? Messenger Wants to Help

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According to TechCrunch.com, Mark Zuckerberg has announced that users will be able to reach out to businesses in the Facebook Messenger application. View image | gettyimages.com If a person is wondering about when their order will be coming to them or have questions about it, the person is able to communicate with the company simply through the […]

Twitter Toying with Autoplay

According to mashable.com, Twitter is now following in Facebook’s footsteps with an autoplay feature. Twitter is now experimenting with autoplay for videos in timelines. Autoplay lets videos play while somebody is scrolling through their news feeds automatically without even needing to hit play. Vine, a popular app that lets users post six-second videos, will not be […]

Instagram Introduces New Layout App

On March 26, Instagram announced that Layout from Instagram will be launched as a new application. This new app lets people combine multiple photos into a single image. After opening the app, it shows people a preview of custom layouts people can use to start their layout of photos. Along with being able to combine […]

Twitter Changes Advertising Via New Analytics Homepage

Twitter is now trying to make it easier for people to promote their businesses. As of March 12th businesses will have a new type of homepage for reviewing analytics, according to The Next Web. Companies will now have access to a view of their Twitter account’s activity, including: The amount of times you have tweeted along with how […]

Facebook Working On Virtual Reality Apps

According to Mashable.com, Facebook believes that one day we will be able to connect with people via virtual reality apps. Users can eventually experience something though as they are physically there when they are not. View image | gettyimages.com Chief product officer Chris Cox for Facebook addressed a group of people at the Code/Media conference […]