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Facebook will let you turn your face into a pumpkin for Halloween — but only if you use Facebook Live

by Kurt Wagner Oct 29, 2016, 2:25p

Facebook is adding masks to Live for the first time

Vine may be going away, but Vine’s stars had already moved on

by Kurt Wagner Oct 29, 2016, 11:22a

And that was the problem.

Facebook is testing a new messaging product that looks a lot like Snapchat

by Kurt Wagner Oct 28, 2016, 9:00a

Facebook’s Snapchat envy continues.

Twitter is shutting down its video app Vine

by Kurt Wagner Oct 27, 2016, 12:35p

The app will go away “in the coming months.”

Can TV save Twitter? Twitter says it’s early.

by Kurt Wagner Oct 27, 2016, 10:24a

Twitter’s livestreaming strategy was the topic of the moment on the company’s Q3 earnings call Thursday.

Twitter will cut 9 percent of its workforce, or roughly 350 people

by Kurt Wagner Oct 27, 2016, 7:03a

The layoffs were announced alongside Twitter’s Q3 earnings Thursday morning.

Pretty much no one thinks that social media improves our political discussions

by Kurt Wagner Oct 25, 2016, 10:00a

Political discussions on social media are less respectful and more angry, a new study found.

Facebook is making a big ad push to get more people using Facebook Live

by Kurt Wagner Oct 21, 2016, 1:00p

TV, billboards, buses — Facebook is doing it all.

Klout founder Joe Fernandez wants to rent you a cotton candy machine

by Kurt Wagner Oct 21, 2016, 11:00a

Fernandez’s new company has nothing to do with social media.

How do you fix Twitter?

by Kurt Wagner Oct 19, 2016, 2:40p

A few Silicon Valley luminaries offer up their solutions.

Any business on Facebook can now sell goods right from its Page

by Jason Del Rey Oct 19, 2016, 1:33p

Facebook, an e-commerce company?

Tinder is opening a Silicon Valley office and plans to double its workforce in the next 18 months

by Kurt Wagner Oct 19, 2016, 9:00a

Tinder is coming to Silicon Valley to recruit.

Why Ashton Kutcher passed on investing in Snapchat, twice

by Eric Johnson Oct 17, 2016, 6:30a

The actor-turned-investor couldn’t get over Snapchat’s design.

How James Corden foiled a Twitter troll

by Eric Johnson Oct 10, 2016, 10:47a

He killed her with kindness.

Snapchat is pushing its publisher content almost out of sight

by Kurt Wagner Oct 7, 2016, 5:00p

You’ll see all your friends’ Stories first now.

Want a new job? You can now say so on your LinkedIn profile.

by Kurt Wagner Oct 6, 2016, 3:01a

LinkedIn promises your boss won’t find out.

Snapchat’s automated ad sales have arrived, and real ad dollars are likely coming next

by Kurt Wagner Oct 5, 2016, 7:58p

Snapchat has launched its ads API.

WhatsApp just added a bunch of Snapchat-style camera features

by Kurt Wagner Oct 3, 2016, 5:29p

Emojis, anyone?

Facebook is giving its new Craigslist competitor prime real estate inside its app

by Kurt Wagner Oct 3, 2016, 8:05a

But whatever happened to its live video tab?

Facebook is taking on Craigslist with its own used goods marketplace

by Jason Del Rey Oct 3, 2016, 8:00a

And it’s giving it prime placement in the Facebook app.

Facebook’s ‘People You May Know’ feature can be really creepy. How does it work?

by Kurt Wagner and Jason Del Rey Oct 1, 2016, 8:00a

After a few odd encounters, we decided to get some answers from Facebook.

Kik Messenger is no longer growing

by Kurt Wagner Sep 29, 2016, 3:00a

But CEO Ted Livingston isn’t worried. Here’s why.

Anyone on Twitter can now create a Moment

by Kurt Wagner Sep 28, 2016, 1:50p

More Moments = more content.

Houseparty, the new app from the Meerkat team, is going through some growing pains

by Kurt Wagner Sep 26, 2016, 6:45p

The company recently closed its Tel Aviv office and laid off a small group of employees.

Snapchat changed its name to Snap, and is going to sell $130 video-sharing sunglasses this fall

by Peter Kafka Sep 23, 2016, 11:53p

Evan Spiegel takes a stab at hardware.

More than two million people watched the NFL on Twitter (again)

by Kurt Wagner Sep 23, 2016, 5:48p

But the average Twitter audience for NFL football jumped 34 percent for the Patriots-Texans Thursday night game.

LinkedIn is bringing Lynda.com courses to its news feed and building a messaging bot

by Kurt Wagner Sep 22, 2016, 2:23p

Bots!

Twitter will livestream all three presidential debates, thanks to a new deal with Bloomberg

by Kurt Wagner Sep 21, 2016, 9:00a

Clinton versus Trump, live on Twitter.

Google has rejoined the messaging wars with its artificially intelligent app, Allo

by Kurt Wagner Sep 21, 2016, 12:01a

If at first you don’t succeed ...

Twitter laid off its ZipDial engineering team in India

by Kurt Wagner Sep 20, 2016, 4:27p

Twitter is moving away from tweets-via-text.

Twitter’s longer tweets are now live

by Kurt Wagner Sep 19, 2016, 1:29p

Media attachments no longer count toward the 140-character limit.

This startup built a business by watching where we tweet

by Kurt Wagner Sep 18, 2016, 3:00p

For Hyp3r, it’s all about location, location, location. 

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