Social Media & Reputation Management

Amongst the many changes that Twitter has been making recently, it has today unveiled newly refreshed Twitter profiles with the addition of a ‘Header Photo’. The Header Photo appears at the top of a Twitter profile, encompassing both the bio & profile picture and can be uploaded via mobile apps for iPad, iPhone and Android, or onli...

When Facebook shares went public back in May 2012 they started out on a wing and a prayer, now the wing is on fire and the prayer has been answered.. by Satan. It was one of the grandest IPO’s (Initial Public Offering) in history, selling more than 400 million shares at over $38 a pop valuing the company on the market at an impressive 100 bi...

It’s inevitable that as something grows, the need for regulation becomes greater. Up until recently, Twitter has been relatively relaxed in its approach to regulation and the restrictions it imposes on users and developers. However, the tide is starting to change and Twitter, like many before it, are starting to put more stringent guidelines...

The founders of Diaspora, the social network that launched in 2010 as something of an anti-Facebook, have just announced that is to become a community driven project while they focus on their new project – Makr.io.  The founders, students at a New York University, were inspired by a speech called 'Freedom in the Cloud' where Fac...

It is widely agreed that Facebook's public flotation was a disaster.  It was over-hyped by those highly ethical and definitely not greedy paragons of virtue that work on Wall Street, leading to unrealistic expectations being set.  Facebook decided to disclose that about 5-6% of their accounts are fake – that's somewhere betw...

We interview Callum Haywood, the teenage mind behind "We Know What You're Doing", a Facebook privacy experiment. Privacy on the web has been a concern for as long as everyone can remember. With the advent of Facebook, and other social websites, privacy is even more of a concern because most users don't know how to correctly se...

  Twitter has recently decided to cut ties with Linked IN. Historically you used to be able to post your updates from twitter onto your linked in profile. This happened as of the 29th of June and put an end to a two year relationship between the 2 sites where they had an agreement where users could since both accounts and share updates/ tweet...

  With the explosion of use that is social media, Social Media Day was introduced in 2010 and is now celebrated across the world by tens of thousands of people. Social ‘meetups’ have been arranged by a number of social sites to celebrate and appreciate the evolution and development of multiple platforms that have enriched the day...

The Advertising Standards Authority of Ireland (ASAI), as well as the organisation in the UK and abroad, offers a form of control over representations of consumers or society. The Code of Standards for Advertising, Promotional and Direct Marketing ultimately ensures that only appropriate advertisements are promoted to the public.   It is the...

As Google+ brand pages pass their 6 month birthday, an interesting report by Simply Measured has shown that 64% of the Interbrand Top 100 now have an active Google+ brand page, with 43% of them posting at least three times a week. So what are they posting about? Is there anything that Google+ is doing for them that other social platforms are not...