Year: 2016

How to force Facebook to show posts from certain Pages

Tired of how Facebook doesn’t show you posts from your friend’s Facebook Pages? Crazy, right? You are friends with someone, yet you never see what’s on their Facebook Page in your news stream. Here’s how to fix it so Facebook will show you posts from Facebook Pages that YOU specify. Use lists in Facebook–wait–Facebook has lists? …

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How Twitter should roll out the algorithm timeline

If Twitter is going to release an timeline algorithm, then each user should be able to determine the variables used. For my timeline, I would have two variables: 1) Favor people who at-reply other people’s tweets. I don’t want to follow people on Twitter who only tweet and never at-reply other people. If Twitter lets …

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How long have you been signed up for a particular website?

Do you ever wonder how long you’ve been on services like Spotify? Twitter and Facebook provide your sign-up date, whereas some services don’t. Searching through your email is certainly one method of finding your sign-up date. But what if you either deleted the email, or the service never sent a welcome email? How to keep …

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Reaching milestone numbers in social media

When your account is about to hit a milestone in numbers, do you get nervous what should be your next pin/tweet/post should be? I do. It’s silly, but you want your 1,000th or 10,000th tweet to be something good. My Pinterest account is currently sitting on 2,499 pins. What should be my 2,500th pin?!

Are you more of a desktop person or mobile person?

We hear all about how mobile is overtaking desktop. PC desktop sales have been sliding since 2011 (via anthonynotes.com). Most news websites are now mobile first. There’s even cool graphs to show this: But what about yourself? Are you visiting more webpages on mobile than desktop? Out of my friends and family, I’m usually the …

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Twitter could become universal commenting system

Twitter is considering expanding the twitter character limit to 10,000 characters. The average character length for words is 5.1, so that makes 1,960 words. Who would write 1,960 words in a tweet?! If they are going to extend the limit, at least make it a short-style blog post, like 300 words. For comparison, newspaper columns run …

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