Rob Riches is the Social Media Journalist Intern for Bad Rhino, as well as a senior at Cabrini College. At Cabrini, Rob serves as the Operations Manager for the school's radio station, 89.1 WYBF-FM (where he hosts a weekly show), and also as a Resident Assistant. In his spare time, Rob enjoys watching the Philadelphia sports teams and hanging out with friends and family.
Twitter is unrolling a significant update that’s glaringly similar to rivals Facebook and Google Plus. The test features a revamped tweet stream – rather than the classic vertical look, the stream features tweets squared off and adjacent to each other. Photos, videos and content cards are also given a larger focus, according to an article […]
LinkedIn unrolled on Thursday a new “How You’re Connected” tool, allowing users to further connect and establish rapport with one another. When you visit another user’s profile, you’ll see mutual connections. “How You’re Connected” expands upon these mutual connections by outlining how users know each other. “Today, we’re introducing a new ‘How You’re Connected’ tool […]
Cameron Joye is Community Manager, Brand Advocate and Thought Leader at Engagor, where she blogs regularly. She loves engaging with people the world over, so tweet her @Cameron_Joye! . . If all of the buzz social media has been getting in the month of January alone is any indication of what 2014 is going to be […]
Twitter’s Android app unrolled a new update Monday, making it easier for users to share and edit photos. Users can rotate and crop photos to fit different aspect ratios, and can mention any friends in the photo. “Over the past few months, we’ve made it easy to share and edit photos on Twitter,” engineer Matt […]
In an effort to maintain a consistent look amongst mobile platforms, Twitter has unrolled a sleek, new look to its website. The navigation bar is different, as is matches what is seen on iOS and Android devices. A user’s profile picture and header also appear in the left-hand corner on their home feed, compared to […]
Tumblr has become the latest social site to hop on the user-mentioning bandwagon, popularized by Twitter and embraced throughout the social media scene. User mentions work on Tumblr just as they work anywhere else – the utilization of the “@” symbol. Users are also notified in their dashboard when another user mentions them. “Just type […]
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone’s latest side project came to fruition Tuesday as the Jelly app was launched, providing users with a new question-based search engine. “Jelly changes how we find answers because it uses pictures and people in our social networks,” a blog post on Jelly’s site said. “It turns out that getting answers from […]
Starting Friday, Vine users will now be eligible to claim vanity URLs for their profiles. Twitter users with verified accounts will be the first to get the custom URLs, while the general population of users can claim them starting Monday. Vanity URLs are entirely optional, but it still gives users the option to make their […]
In an effort to reach users by alternative means, Facebook has unveiled video advertisements to play in a user’s News Feed, set to launch Thursday. The ads are set to start appearing Thursday for web and mobile devices, and will play automatically – though sound may be toggled on and off by the user. Exact […]
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