Chipotle Twitter Account Fakes Its Own Hack, Gains 4,000 Followers + MORE

Facebook members have been seeing ads in the News Feed for quite some time now. In fact, they now make up five percent of total stories. Although there was some initial nervousness regarding consumer feedback, it appears that most people are satisfied with the integration.
During Facebook’s second-quarter earnings call yesterday, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg stated, “We haven’t seen a meaningful drop in satisfaction when we ask people about their experience with Facebook, compared to responses to the same question asked of people using a version of Facebook without News Feed ads…

Wikipedia today announced it is starting to roll out support for editing content on your mobile device. The first version of mobile editing, which requires a Wikimedia account, is available right now.
“For our first release, our primary goal was to create a fast, intuitive editing experience for new users and experienced editors alike, while still sticking with markup editing for now,” Wikimedia’s Juliusz Gonera explained…

Over the past few months, Facebook has worked to make advertising simpler and more accessible. The company announced Thursday that it now has a place for advertisers — the revamped Facebook for Business page — to learn more about Facebook’s ad units and read more about how similar companies have achieved success…

Earlier this week, Chipotle’s Twitter account started sending out strange and random tweets that led many to believe the account had been hacked.
Turns out, Chipotle faked its own Twitter hack as part of a publicity stunt celebrating the fast food chain’s 20th anniversary.
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Ever since Facebook went public on May 18, 2012, the company has scuffled to prove to investors that it is worthy of praise. With this glowing report of the second quarter of 2013, it appears that Wall Street has taken notice.
Facebook pulled in roughly $1.6 billion from advertising — and 41 percent of that is from mobile, with mobile News Feed and app install ads leading the charge…

While iOS games started out as either simple physics or casual simulation titles when the platform launched about five years ago, the bar has gotten steadily higher and more hard-core. Midcore studios like Kabam started to rise in prominence.
Now the iOS platform might be seeing is most hardcore title to date — a very, very massive multi-player title from YC- and Menlo Ventures-backed Machine Zone…

There were rumors swirling earlier that Facebook would scrap the popular people talking about this (PTAT) metric, and several people noticed that the PTAT number, located next to like totals, is gone from their page.
However, Facebook told Inside Facebook that this was just a coding mistake and the company is working on getting PTAT back on pages:
There was a technical issue that caused PTAT not to show up for some Pages, but that’s being fixed as we speak…

Do you use social media to generate inbound leads for your business? Are you unsure about where and how to focus your efforts to meet your lead generation goals? According to HubSpot’s Inbound Marketing Annual Report, social media produces almost double the marketing leads of trade shows, telemarketing, direct mail or PPC…

The food we see in magazines has been painstakingly staged to make the colors of the vegetables pop and the melted cheese look perfectly in focus as it drips down the side of the casserole dish. So why can’t we make the food on our own plates look that delicious with an iPhone?

Evernote has released a collection of image filters and a low-light camera settings that are made just for candlelight dinners and nighttime picnics in the park…

Facebook reported its best fiscal quarter to date, as the second quarter financial report showed that the company pulled in $1.813 billion in revenue with a net gain of $333 million.

 
Facebook saw revenue gains across the globe, as each major sector (US/Canada, Europe, Asia, rest of world) saw gains when compared to the first quarter 2013 and the second quarter 2012…

For this week’s Mashable Photo Challenge Guest Series, we want you to show us your animal’s human side. Does your little pup sneeze like a grown man? Do you ever find your cat sleeping with her head on your pillow? Capture these candid moments of your animal, or try posing him or her in a creative way…

FacebookSomething is going very right at the world’s biggest social network. At least according to Wall Street.
After popping 19 percent last night in after-hours trading, Facebook shares are up 25 percent today to over $33, as the stock is flirting with levels not seen since its botched IPO over a year ago, when shares jumped as high as $43…