Twitter is fixing that thing where you type “.@” for everyone to see your tweet
Twitter reports 320 million users in Q4 2015, flat for the first time and down when excluding SMS
Opinion
Twitter’s real problem: Silicon Valley’s misguided ‘real time’ fetish
VB Webinar
Social media management: How to win back unhappy customers (webinar)
Skype is rolling out 10 love-themed Mojis with music from Paul McCartney
Twitter just got a little bit more like Facebook with new algorithmic timeline
Facebook paid 210 security researchers $936,000 in 2015, high-impact bugs grew by 38%
Vine adds video sorting, caption editing, and 3D Touch support
Starwood Hotels’ luxury at scale requires emotional analytics
Twitter forms Trust and Safety Council amid concerns it has become a cesspool of hateful trolls
VB Event
Marketing in your (smiling) face: Marketing.FWD Summit will stimulate, provoke, and amuse
French data privacy regulator to Facebook: You have 3 months to stop tracking non-users
Instagram launches account switching on iOS and Android
India bans Facebook’s Free Basics: Law targets ‘discriminatory tariffs’ and supports net neutrality
Nine wants you to ‘meet Instagrammers through your best 9 photos’
Twitter users decry reported plan to prioritize tweets
Guest
The next wave in storytelling is short-form video
LinkedIn sheds $11 billion on stock’s worst day since debut
Twitter says it’s ‘suspended over 125,000 accounts’ related to terrorism
Google confirms Hangouts will now use peer-to-peer connections to improve call quality and speed
Opinion
Facebook turned 12 today, my account turned 9, and I’m in too deep
LinkedIn acquires recruiting startup Connectifier
WhatsApp group chat limit extended to 256 people
VB Event
Customer experience takes the lead at American Express
Analysis
In an era of Super Bowl 50 marketing firsts, brands fumble with email
Facebook debuts a personalized video and stickers to celebrate your friendships
After School, the anonymous social app for young students, raises $16.4 million
VB Event
Super Bowl provocateur GoDaddy grows up, gets personalized
VB Event
Mondelez hopes to twist social success into ecommerce success
VB Event
Target’s Kristi Argyilan finds the emotion in marketing technology
WhatsApp passes 1 billion monthly active users
Facebook’s News Feed will now surface content you want to see and also engage with
Google adds real-time U.S. election information directly to search results
Take It To’s blogging platform helps creative professionals showcase and share their work
Twitter experiments with trending tweets in the timeline
Guest
How Twitter could be 10X bigger, 100X more profitable, and 1000X more awesome
Guest
Why Facebook’s Parse shutdown is good news for all of us
VB Event