These are the biggest social media trends you need to know about for 2020, according to Convince & Convert's social media consulting team.
Founded in 2009 by two former Yahoo! employees, WhatsApp’s original goal wasn’t to be an instant messaging (IM) app, but rather to simply show “statuses” next to the names of each entry in a user’s address book. “At some point it sort of became instant messaging,” Alex Fishma...
Market leader Facebook was the first social network to surpass one billion registered accounts and currently sits at more than three billion monthly active users. Meta Platforms owns four of the biggest social media platforms, all with more than one billion monthly active users each: Facebook (co...
Australia’s government has passed a bill that intends toban social media usefor users under the age of 16. The law requires social platforms to prove they’ve taken the necessary measures to ensure that usage is restricted. Platforms can expect to pay a hefty penalty to the tune of nearly...
About 5.5 billion people use the internet globally, and 90% use social media for over 2 hours a day. Comgest's Zak Smerczak and MarketWatch's Gordon Gottsegen explore the future of the biggest social media giants, balancing benefits and ...
Connected social media account login names 17. Deep Root Analytics Data Breach Date: Jun 2017 Impact: 200 million U.S voters The records of 200 million voters was accessed from Deep Root Analytics, a firm working on behalf of the Republican National Committee (RNC). The data consisted of ...
One of China biggest social media platforms just reversed a decision to ban gay contentTara Francis Chan
Social media sites have brought people together, allowing them to connect and collaborate in ways that weren’t possible just a decade ago. But the price of that connection is thesevere risk to privacy and securityas cybercriminals lurk, waiting to take advantage of users’ personal information....
It’s not just millennials who are using and interacting with social media more than ever before. Whilst senior audiences have always been big users of LinkedIn, this trend has accelerated in 2017, and now the nine million C-suite LinkedIn members are some of the most engaged people on the...
This is part of the push to eat ‘natural’ or ‘clean’ foods. But whether they’re natural or highly processed, all foods are full of chemicals, you just don’t happen to know the scientific names for them. For example, should you fear ‘phenylthiocarbamide’, because you can’t pron...