Instagram just threw you a bone. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that, after almost six disjointed years, Instagram users can once again view their feeds in chronological order. The company unveiled two new feed options, Favorites and Following, tacitly acknowledging that its algorithm-fueled home timeline isn’t cutting it for some users.…
NAP consistency is an important part of Google’s local search and Local Pack algorithms, which means that building citations with a consistent NAP on your Google Business Profile listing and other online directories and sites can influence your local rankings. However, having a consistent NAP is also important to the user journey, as online directories…
Ever miss a really important email? We’ve all been there. The team over at the messaging platform Telegram probably knows exactly how bad that feels too. Now it’s banned in Brazil, and missed emails are the culprit. According to Reuters, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued an order Friday for Telegram to be…
On March 9, Russian forces struck a maternity and children’s hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, leaving three dead at the scene and over a dozen injured. Many were horrified by the photos and videos of the aftermath. One photo, in particular, of an injured pregnant woman being carried out on a stretcher captured the sheer brutality…
Twitter just thought better of it. The social media company most associated with the reverse-chronological feed announced Monday that it would pause recently touted plans to let users quickly swipe between Latest and Home timelines. Seemingly at issue was not the ability to easily change between the two layouts, but rather the company’s frustrating decision…
Local SEO is a pretty complex beast. There are many moving parts that are just not part of an organic enterprise strategy. And, when it comes to franchises and Local SEO, it can get even more complex as the “who is in charge of local SEO” answer is vague at best. In this article, we…
“Swipe left” just took on a whole new meaning. On Thursday, Twitter announced that all iOS users now have the option to quickly switch between the Latest and Home timelines with a quick swipe. Twitter had prioritized the Home timeline as far back as 2016, but gave users the option to opt out via a…
Tech companies are continuing to take action as Russia’s war in Ukraine rages on. Search engine DuckDuckGo is the latest platform to take measures in the information war that’s being battled online. According to DuckDuckGo’s founder and CEO, Gabriel Weinberg, the privacy-focused search engine has “down-ranked” websites in its search results that are “associated with…
If you subscribe to a lot of Substack writers and are now finding your email inbox inundated with newsletters, today is your lucky day. Substack, the subscription newsletter platform, has just launched its first mobile app in the Apple App Store. Anyone can download the app for their iOS devices right now. Tweet may have…
Over Presidents’ Day weekend, I, like many others who had signed up for the Apple App Store pre-order of Trump’s social media platform Truth Social, received a notification to sign up for an account. And, like everyone but a few hundred lucky VIPs, I got put on a waitlist. However, weeks later, Truth Social decided…