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We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #207

Facebook down Something went wrong. Facebook failed and people had to talk to each other. Where were you when Facebook went down? Did you survive The Great Facebook Outage of 2015? Survivors shared their stories and memes via the hashtag#facebookdown The story took over social media on Monday evening, except for on Facebook, which was […]

We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #206

The benevolent Target troll, at it again You may remember back in August, when a community management crusader posed as a Target rep, rising to the retailers defence as angry customers voiced their outraged at the decision to make their toy department gender neutral. Mike Melgaard has now lent his services to the Doritos Facebook page, following the […]

We Are Social’s Wednesday Wrap-Up #205

Facebook Improves Pages The money-making machine that is Facebook is at it again, but this time it’s helping you, marketers. The platform has announced an upgrade to allow the 45 million companies – from global brands to local businesses – with Pages to improve their virtual storefront on the platform. The new tabbed mobile layout […]

We Are Social’s Wednesday Wrap-Up #204

Google is G It’s been 17 years since a little search page on a desktop PC launched and over the years it’s evolved into the Google we know and love today. To mark this evolution, Google has debuted a new colourful G logo to replace the little blue ‘g’ icon that previously appeared in various […]

We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #203

Tumblr has now launched in Australia! The blogging platform Tumblr has teamed up with Yahoo7 to launch in Australia last Thursday night. Australia is the first non-American market to be commercialised for the platform. Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp explained, “part of why Australia was the first stop for our international rollout was that […]

We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #202

Older social network users prefer tablets over smartphones It won’t be news to you that most social network users now use mobile devices to stalk their exes, make meaningful connections online, with mobile (including tablets) now accounting for 80% of time spent on social social networks, with 25% year-on-year growth. And as social media penetration […]

We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #201

LOL New Facebook data analysis has revealed what we’ve all expected, “haha” is the new “LOL”. The study has shown a staggering 51.4% of people use “haha” and 33.7% use an emoji to laugh on the internet. The research did have limitations, only including posts and comments on Facebook and excluding Facebook Messenger. The entire study is a fascinating look […]

We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #200

Australian reality TV <3 Twitter While The Voice continues to fill the internet with gifs and Periscopes of Delta Goodrem dancing, The Bachelor has opted to send roses to fans who tweet the most during the show. If you’ve always dreamed of receiving a rose from The Bachelor then this is your chance to make […]

We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #199

Heads up, your Twitter wallpaper has gone If you thought Twitter was looking very bland recently, you’re not wrong. my twitter wallpaper has disappeared and been replaced by a blank space, just like my heart — Neil (@armchairlb) July 20, 2015 Twitter has removed all users background images from the home and notifications timelines. The […]

We Are Social’s Tuesday Tune-Up #198

Star Wars mobile app: May the force… I can’t even. Srsly. If the upcoming release of Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens is the reason why you live, don’t miss the new mobile app released by Disney Interactive and Lucasfilm to give fans an outlet for keeping up with the latest franchise news and fellow fans. […]

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