Twitter added new features to Twitter Blue, the premium subscription offering that debuted in Australia and Canada in June and is still available only in those markets. Twitter Blue users posting from Twitter.com can now upload and tweet videos up to 10 minutes long. Direct message conversations can now be pinned to the top of...
Major League Baseball and Twitter are focusing on the "World" in World Series, teaming up on the #PostcardsFromHomePlate initiative. It started Oct. 12, when the @MLB Twitter handle issued a call to action to fans in four languages--English, Japanese, Korean and Spanish--for followers to comment on what baseball means to them, alluding to a "surprise"...
Instagram released a Holiday Success Guide to help businesses on its platform prepare for the all-important holiday shopping season. It features step-by-step guides on topics including creating and managing product catalogs and tagging products to make them discoverable, with Instagram noting that using product tags five or more days per months helps boost product page...
"The company with all of those controversial leaked internal documents? That's Facebook. You have reached Meta." Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the new name at the company's Connect 2021 virtual event Thursday. "Some of you may be wondering why we're doing this right now," he said at the beginning of his one-hour-plus keynote, saving the...
The creator economy has made millionaires out of ordinary people, and it could do the same for the publishers that cover it. The Information launched its creator economy newsletter in April, covering the tech companies and people working in the creator economy, from Clubhouse to investors to Patreon, to gauge reader interest in the nascent...
Facebook continued to hammer home the importance of small businesses on its platform with a new video from Facebook for Business, "The Smallest Sponsors." The video focuses on how small businesses have invested in youth sports teams by sponsoring them. A spokesperson for the social network said in an email, "Every year, millions of small...
TikTok for Business and The New York Times Advertising joined forces on "Small Wins," a campaign to support small and midsized businesses. The New York Times Advertising built a custom ad product, Vertical Video Flex XL, to capture the essence of TikTok videos in their signature format. The two companies said that by combining the...
The global workforce is in the midst of a revolution. This month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor revealed that there were 10.4 million job openings in August, while employees leaving their jobs grew to 4.3 million. It's the highest number on record since December 2000. Freelance platform Fiverr has embraced this workplace disruption with a...
More than 100 million people play Activision Blizzard's free-to-play battle royale game Call of Duty: Warzone, competing in 150-person shootouts to be the final survivor. The victor typically gets to watch their character carried off to safety by helicopter, the ultimate signal of a job well done. But in late August, victors saw their digital...