Social Media Articles

Posted - 10th May 2012 in Social Media

Facebook's own app store will select the best web and mobile applications.

by Liane Baddeley

Posted - 8th May 2012 in Social Media

Facebook's automated systems are being improved following the blocking of a harmless user comment.

by Liane Baddeley

Posted - 10th April 2012 in Social Media

Social media giant Facebook has bought smartphone application Instagram for $1bn (£630m).

by Liane Baddeley

Posted - 26th March 2012 in Social Media

Bosses have tried to find out more by requesting social media login details from interviewees and staff.

by Liane Baddeley

Posted - 23rd March 2012 in Social Media

Facebook has bought 750 IBM patents to protect itself in future patent infringement lawsuits.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 9th March 2012 in Social Media

Google+ enhanced adverts provide a 5 to 10 per cent increase in click-through rates.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 2nd March 2012 in Social Media

Facebook will soon launch real-time analytics, allowing administrators to view live data for their Pages.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 17th February 2012 in Social Media

Facebook is set to verify celebrity accounts, a feature already available on Twitter and Google+.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 2nd February 2012 in Social Media

The Facebook IPO will allow members of the public to buy shares in the social network.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 27th January 2012 in Social Media

Google+ is now available to teens and comes with new safety features due to this altered age restriction.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 13th January 2012 in Social Media

Facebook has announced the launch of 'Listen With' - a new music sharing feature.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 3rd January 2012 in Social Media

The new Facebook Timeline has not been made visible in Internet Explorer 7, leaving users with a buggy older version.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 29th December 2011 in Social Media

YouTube Slam is a video discovery experiment developed jointly by YouTube and Google Research.

by Richard Frost

Posted - 23rd December 2011 in Social Media

Facebook has been named the most searched term and the most visited site of 2011.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 24th November 2011 in Social Media

After a mixed start, Google+ appears to be moving in the right direction in the latest traffic figures.

by Richard Frost

Posted - 23rd November 2011 in Social Media

Social Analytics lets SEOmoz PRO users track interactions and impact.

by Rachel Hand

Posted - 28th October 2011 in Social Media

Send @GuardianTagBot a topic to get a link to the latest related news.

by Rachel Hand

Posted - 7th October 2011 in Social Media

Facebook, the social networking giant, has joined forces with Bing Translate so that its worldwide users can efficiently communicate

by Richard Frost

Posted - 23rd September 2011 in Social Media

Facebook is set to collaborate with Spotify and Netflix, enabling people to share their music and film tastes with friends.

by Lauren Knowles

Posted - 20th September 2011 in Social Media

Fashion brand gives followers an exclusive preview in a 'Tweetwalk' ahead of London Fashion Week show.

by Rachel Hand

Posted - 12th September 2011 in Social Media

Third party advertising company Twittad owns the 'tweet' trademark; now Twitter wants it back.

by Rachel Hand

Posted - 24th August 2011 in Social Media

Social media marketing is being used to promote the I Love Mcr campaign.

by Richard Frost

Posted - 22nd August 2011 in Social Media

Data protection authority rules that the social media tool 'profiles' users and therefore breaches privacy laws.

by Rachel Hand

Posted - 10th August 2011 in Social Media

Commentators were quick to condemn social media's role in the looting, but it has also helped coordinate the response.

by Richard Frost

Posted - 29th July 2011 in Social Media

Internet users would "behave a lot better" if online anonymity became a thing of the past, says Randi Zuckerberg.

Posted - 19th July 2011 in Social Media

Men are using Google+ more than women, with social media trackers claiming around three-quarters of the site's users are male.

Posted - 15th July 2011 in Social Media

Justin Bieber passed 11 million followers on Twitter this week and thanked his 'Beliebers' for helping him reach the milestone.

Posted - 13th July 2011 in Social Media

Starting today, BBC Worldwide will stream classic episodes through social media for fans outside the UK.

by Rachel Hand

Posted - 8th July 2011 in Social Media

Twitter went into overdrive once more yesterday, as users debated the closure of the News of the World.

Posted - 29th June 2011 in Social Media

Google's new Google+ project promises to revolutionise the way we share online.

by Nicola Hughes