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Analysis shows 35% of Twitter users were upset about Facebook buying Instagram
Did you cringe when you heard that Facebook was going to buy Instagram? Apparently you weren’t alone. Over 1/3 of the tweets (35 percent) that referenced the acquisition were negative, with most people expressing anger and disgust at Facebook. Another 18 percent were from people in shock at the news and ten percent said they deleted their Instagram account. Only a handful of people (4 percent) actually look forward to the collaboration. This bit of analysis comes from Crimson Hexagon, a Twitter sentiment analysis firm which examined over 200,000 tweets … Read more
Kelly Hodgkins
Facebook buys Instagram – What you think
In a rather unexpected bit of news, Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion this morning and we asked you lovely readers what you thought of the deal. You’ll find the answers below thanks to Storify. Instagram was about 551 days old at the time of the acquisition and it could be the first billion-dollar app purchase (not 100 percent sure on that one). What’s clear is that the mobile revolution is real and can be quite lucrative if you have the right pieces. The reactions ran the gamut, as some … Read more
Marin Perez
Facebook buys Instagram for $1 billion
Facebook is acquiring Instagram and the team will be joining the world’s largest social network, according to a status update from Mark Zuckerberg. Reports suggest that the deal is worth up to $1 billion in cash and shares. Instagram blew up as an iPhone-only way to share photos with various filters. The service attracted nearly 30 million users and big brands before it finally came to Android last week.n In a Facebook status, Zuckerberg said: We believe these are different experiences that complement each other. But in order to do … Read more
Marin Perez
Bump Pay lets you pound fists and magically transfer money to friends
Bump Pay is a new experimental app from the makers of Bump that instead of pounding fists to share contact information, lets you share money. It works by initially connecting to your PayPal account. Then you launch the app, type in the amount of money you want to transfer and bump hands with the person you want to send it to. Within a few seconds, you lose the money and they gain it. It’s pleasantly simple. Bump won’t charge you for any transfers as long as you have a bank … Read more
George Tinari
Camera Awesome hits 4 million users, announces Instagram partnership
Camera Awesome, a recently popular photography app for the iPhone made by photo-sharing website SmugMug, hit the 4-million-user milestone today in less than one month and, to celebrate, is announcing some great new features. Among the most exciting: Instagram integration — instagration, if I may. Camera Awesome launched at the beginning of March with very warm reception and quickly rose to the top of the App Store charts. It’s currently the fifth most popular free app under the Photo & Video category. Don’t let the fact that it’s free fool … Read more
George Tinari
Google outbids Facebook for Kevin Rose’s Milk team
According to AllThingsD, Google just scored a pretty significant hiring of the entire Milk team, including the services of Diggnation founder Kevin Rose. The terms of the deal is reported as an acqui-hire type deal, as the search giant plans to give Kevin and his staff of eight a major part in leading Google’s continuing social efforts in the future. This news comes after the Milk team’s shutdown of local recommendations app, Oink. Sources told the folks over at AllThingsD that Google wasn’t buying Milk, but Rose and some others from the company. Thing … Read more
Charles West
New Path 2.1 update with developer API just unlocked a world of sharing
Path is out with version 2.1 of its mobile social networking app and it has a bunch of new sharing features in time for SXSW 2012, including a new API for developers to tap into Path and allow users to share virtually all activity on any service. The first to utilize this API is Nike+ in a partnership with Path. Hooking up your Nike+ account with your Path account can automatically share running activity with your friends on Path and optionally push it a step further and share on Facebook … Read more
George Tinari
Is Facebook reading your text messages?
Is Facebook reading your text messages without your permission? That’s what a story in the Sunday Times kind of says but the folks at the world’s largest social network are denying this. The story sounds pretty alarming, especially considering how many privacy missteps Facebook has had in the past but the company says it has been testing a messaging service that expressly asks for permission to check these out. Here’s a full statement from Facebook, as told to Alleyinsider: There is no reading of user text messages. On the Android … Read more
Marin Perez
Twitter updates its iPhone and Android applications
Android or iOS owners should check their respective app stores because Twitter has a fresh, new update for you to download. It’s a modest improvement which includes support for a new, time-saving gesture that lets you swipe a tweet and then reply, retweet, favorite or share it right from your timeline. You can now swipe and view a user’s profile, too. Twitter also added a new privacy safeguard that will alert you when you select “Find Friends.” This little notification is a reminder that this feature will upload your contacts’ email … Read more