You watch TikTok evolve as a fast phase, and you wonder how you can remain significant on the platform. You want to ensure that you are continuously growing and becoming relevant regardless of the updates that occur.
When the app is becoming more and more dynamic, you want to concentrate on delivering something that matters and not just the trends of the moment.
Your goal is to understand how you can maintain the consistency of your creator identity. This way of thinking will make you prepare better and motivate yourself to be actively engaged with the TikTok community.
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Today, Instagram is a vital engine for branding and business, making community growth a top priority. But growth is rarely a straight line. For most creators, seeing a drop in follower count feels like a personal blow because those numbers represent real connections.
This is why monitoring Instagram unfollowers is a practical necessity, not just a vanity project. To protect your digital market value, you must understand why people leave and how to pivot your strategy effectively.
Why Do People Unfollow on Instagram?
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The new Facebook Timeline enables you hide posts that you do not want others to see on your timeline. But what if you change your mind and want to restore a previously hidden post. This article, which is part of our Facebook Timeline series, will show you how to unhide a hidden post on your Timeline.
How to unhide a post
When you hide a post on your timeline, Facebook places an indication or story that says This story is now hidden from your timeline with an undo button to the right. If you change your mind immediately, you can simply...
The new Facebook Timeline makes managing your profile a lot easy. It offers you a larger area to work with and enables you highlight and hide your posts. So, with Facebook Timeline, you can show-off some posts and hide others. In case, you have not figured out how to highlight and hide posts on your Timeline yet, I will show you how in this post.
Add or Remove Post Highlight on Timeline
Highlighting a post on your Facebook Timeline will expand its width. Instead of occupying one column on your timeline, a highlighted post will expand to occupy your full...
One of the first tasks you may want to perform after getting Facebook Timeline is to remove or hide all previous posts that you do not want others to see. Like I stated in the introductory post in this Facebook Timeline series, timeline makes it a lot easy for people to find older posts on your profile.
So the only way to ensure no one finds those embarrassing updates, photos, or videos is to hide or delete them before publishing your Facebook timeline. Note that your timeline will publish automatically 7 days after your first preview. So, make sure you...
In my earlier post on how to add a Facebook cover photo to your Facebook Timeline, I told you that making a normal photo fit as a cover photo on Facebook Timeline is very hard. If you have attempted adding your own cover photo, you must have faced similar challenges. So, we will see some of your options for making a good cover photo for your timeline.
Upload a photo and drag
Facebook enable you drag a photo into position before saving it as a cover photo. This ensures that all the part of the photo you want seen are visible...
The new Facebook Timeline enables you add a large photo to your timeline called to cover photo. Your cover photo is displayed on top of your Facebook Timeline with your profile photo hanging on the bottom left of the cover photo. Your cover photo will be the first eye catcher for viewers of your Facebook Timeline, so it is a good idea to add one.
How to add a Cover Photo
Your cover photo is likely to be the first item you will like to add to your Facebook Timeline. It will make your Timeline more interesting. Your cover photo should...
Facebook is currently rolling out Timeline, the replacement for the Facebook wall. The Facebook Timeline makes it easy for you and your friends to see your life story or at least the ones you make available online. With Facebook Timeline you can go back as far as the very first post you made on Facebook and you can add more to build a comprehensive life story of yourself.
Facebook Timeline vs Wall
The jury is out early on the new Timeline feature with most respondents to our poll on which they prefer Facebook Timeline or Wall favouring the Facebook wall. However...
2go is a very popular social networking and chat mobile app in Nigeria, especially for users of feature phones. It is a lightweight mobile app that makes keeping in touch with your friends easy. However, if you cannot get enough of 2go on your mobile phone, the service now offers an experimental emulator to enable you use 2go chat on your laptop or desktop computers.Where to Buy SmartphonesJumia.com.ng from ₦7,999.00 Buy Now
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2go is one of the fastest growing Instant messaging & chat app in Nigeria and all over Africa. On 2go you can send and receive messages free to other users on your mobile phone. So, you want to know what the fuss is all about, we will show you how to download the 2go chat app.
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All this while Google+ has been open to only people 18 years and above. But on January 26, 2012 Google+ amended its rules to allow people 13 years and above to join the social networking site. So for the first time all teens can join Google+ officially. To ensure that teens are protected online Google+ offers enhanced privacy features for teens.
That Google+ is opening its doors to all teens does not mean teens have not been using the social networking site. After all they can raise their age to join. However, Google by these changes to its rules is...
Google+, Google’s own social networking service, now boasts of over 90 million users. This is more than 100% the number of users on the social networking site just three months ago. This information was made available by Google's CEO Larry Page, while announcing the company’s fourth quarter 2011 results.
According to the result, Google made $10.58 billion in revenue, the first time the company is exceeding the $10 billion mark in a quarter in its history. However, Google's earnings fell short of analysts' expectations leading to a 9% drop in the value of its shares on announcement of the results....
Facebook has launched its open graph apps service that will allow an enhanced social engagement for its over 800 million users. Open graph actions allow users share their activities outside Facebook on their Timeline on the social networking site. The Facebook open graph apps platform will enable third party developers build Facebook apps that will share user activities on their site on Facebook.
At the launch, Facebook added 60 new partners to the Open Graph platform. In the list are Yahoo!, eBay, Foursquare, TripAdvisor, Ticket Monster, Kobo, etc. This means that your activities on these sites can be shared on...
For BlackBerry users in Nigeria, Social networking and instant messaging apps were by far their most frequently used apps. This is according to a non-scientific survey we conducted on our Facebook fan page in December, 2011 where we asked mobile users of different platforms to list 3 of their most frequently used apps. While, the competition was respectable between Social networking/IM apps and mobile browser apps on other platforms, users of Blackberry phones were a lot more pro social with social/IM apps having 79.9% popularity, leaving browsers with just 10.8%.Where to Buy BlackBerry PhonesJumia.com.ng from ₦22,000.00 Buy Now
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Social networking and instant messaging are the most popular apps used by mobile subscribers in Nigeria. This is according to a non-scientific survey we conducted on our Facebook fan page recently. Social networking and instant messaging apps with a popularity score of 45.3% beat mobile browsers (31.1%) to second place. However, the Opera mini/mobile browsers were the single most popular app for mobile subscribers in Nigeria.
The survey requested our fans on Facebook and Twitter to list their 3 most frequently used mobile apps. It focused on mobile subscribers running BlackBerry, Android, Symbian, and Nokia Series 40. In all platforms,...
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Artists, from musicians to filmmakers, can promote themselves with just the click of the mouse. Unfortunately there is no way to send a thank you card to the Internet, but artists worldwide are grateful to have this powerful tool at their disposal. By harnessing technology while connected to Internet providers, artists can sell themselves and their work without the hassle involved in record labels, studios, or corporations. The do-it-yourself strategy, inherent in the Internet and social networking, is proving to be an attractive marketing option for musicians.(Courtesy of Flickr User: isfullofcrap)
Digital music is a burgeoning market. Anyone can...
By now, you might have heard about the new social networking service from Google called Google+, which is generating a lot of buzz and forcing Facebook to make some quick announcements. Google+ now has over 40 million users, who, from reviews all over the web, are generally happy with the service. Having used Google+ for some time now, I would like to join them in giving Google+ a pass mark.
Google+ design is great, offering a good user experience, better than Facebook, if you ask me. Your ability to share content with one or more select groups called Circles is...
Google+ is Google's latest effort at social media, its best so far. Google+ social networking site, borrows a few ideas from the world champion in social media, Facebook, but also introduced some new and better ideas that makes it a good alternative to Facebook.
Google+ is now available to all users and according to Google, the social networking site boasts of over 40 million users. So far, user reviews from Google+ users including mine have been positive, with most commending how it handles privacy and the control it gives users to select who they share particular contents with. Google+ is...
Facebook has launched its location-based service called Facebook Places. Facebook Places is a phone-based service that enable Facebook users share their location with friends. Places service is slowly being rolled out to users in the US. Users in other countries may have to wait awhile before Facebook Places is activated for their account.
Benefits of Facebook Places
Facebook Places will enable users to connect with each other at an entirely new level. Users can now see where their friends are as well as find friends around their location. Once a user selects the "check-in" button, their location will be visible to...
Twitter (now X) is a free, easy-to-use social networking and microblogging service that allows users to share short messages and updates with other subscribers. These short messages, called tweets, must not exceed 280 characters (previously 140) on the free plan. X Premium subscribers can post content with up to 25,000 characters.
Twitter is the fastest-growing social networking website today, growing much faster than Facebook.
One place that Twitter scores high is in simplicity. It is so easy to use, hence people who found other social networking services like Facebook a bit challenging will find using Twitter easy. Opening your Twitter account...
Facebook associates individuals with companions, previous classmates, and family members. There are social networking platforms that are more geared towards associating business people and...
In an app-driven world, connecting with friends is one click away. Social media portals like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat have increased the tradition of...
