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Twitter’s New Time Travelling Tweets

  Twitter has been experimenting with a new non-chronological tweet-ordering style, reminiscent of Facebook’s ‘Most Recent Posts’ style. The Social Network wants to appeal to more casual users – but could more changes result in it losing its originality? A new algorithm has been implemented

Facebook is helping us ignore annoying viral posts

  Thanks to Facebook we won’t have to see annoying viral posts on our news feeds for much longer. The Social Network are adjusting their algorithm so that certain types of viral content which many users have noted as deceiving or a hoax won’t appear

How to Sleigh your Christmas Social Media

  “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.” – Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Christmas is a time of laughter, love, and most of all, listening… Well, at least that should be the case for your Social Media
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What came first, Social Media or The Internet?

  Social Media has become a phrase that we use all too often nowadays; and it’s no surprise when you consider how it has become intrinsically linked with our day-to-day lives. Like any lasting technological innovation, the concept of Social Media came from humble beginnings

Facebook Tests Snapchat-style Features

  Facebook looks set to tap into the world of Snapchat as it begins testing a new snapchat-esque self-destructing messaging feature for users in France – and it isn’t the first time they have tried to take them on… A new Facebook feature, allowing users

Why it’s difficult to heart Twitter’s new update

  Twitter’s new ‘heart’ update has been received with a wide variety of feedback; some love it, others despise the change. With an icon shift to something so emotionally recognisable, there are certainly a number of undeniable psychological positives. However, criticism has labelled the update

Is Instagram Bad for Photography?

  Since it was launched in October 2010, Instagram has quickly caught on as one of the world’s primary photo sharing platforms. On it you can take a photo, make it look pretty and share it with the world in a matter of seconds. But

Could Social Media Change the World?

  Social media as a phenomenon has grown at an exponential rate, to the point in which it is ingrained in our culture. Social networks have become places where users are able to communicate, express themselves and remember the past at the click of a

Boomerang – Instagram’s new GIF creation app

  On the 22nd October this year Instagram released a new stand-alone app that allows users to create Gif style video loops. With its uncluttered and comfortably sleek interface Boomerang is a great example of a micro-video sharing app, and no matter how hard we try