Twitter Announces Lead Generation Cards and TV Targeting for Advertisers + MORE

I knew something good was happening when I saw the rectangles.
This week I did something that I hadn’t done for five months and 12 days: I went to Flickr on my laptop, accessed some photos on my hard drive, uploaded them, named them, tagged them, and organized them in a set.
The magic of the Internet happened before my eyes, and they joined the other rectangular images on the venerable photo-sharing site…

We told you the folks at Twitter were clever, didn’t we? In case you missed it – they are.
In what we’re expecting is another example of Twitter’s “innovation through experimentation,” Twitter has come up with another way to increase your activity: importing your contacts…

Today marks the six-year anniversary of the Facebook Platform, something that has been defining for Facebook as a company and already influenced a number of industries.
Now, Facebook is making its next big moves for the platform by introducing app services — new tools for developers that make it easier to build applications that span different devices and put users at the forefront…

Facebook removed 38 positions from its careers page this week, likely after making hires in the areas of sales, HR, finance and user operations, among others.
The company appears to have filled a number of key sales roles in Sydney: Head of Financial Services & Travel; Head of Technology, Telecommunications & Entertainment; and Head of Sales Mid-Market, Australia & New Zealand…

Facebook added 31 new positions to its careers page this week, including a number of openings on the research, recruiting, business operations, global marketing and sales teams.
Instagram seems to be looking for its first international employee: a communications manager based in London.
Facebook has an interesting opening for an ethnographer, which includes the following in the job description:
Facebook aims to connect the world in a big way, across all cultures and creeds, cities and countrysides…

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The video streaming service Hulu is amassing a long list of suitors, and Yahoo has reportedly joined the bunch.
The bid was reported by Reuters and AllThingsD, though Yahoo declined to comment for them as for SocialTimes.
The move in many ways would make sense for Yahoo, which many of its recent short-lived CEOs, most notably Ross Levinsohn, referred to as a media company…

Editor’s note: Brendan Gill is the co-founder and CEO of OpenSignal, a startup that crowdsources data on mobile networks from consumer smartphones. Prior to that he founded a California-based e-commerce company after retiring from a brief lifeguarding career. You can find him on Twitter as @brendan_gill…

As more and more people are using social media as a means to communicate with their favorite brands, the lines are becoming increasingly blurred between organizations’ social and customer service channels.
Staff who once were tasked with building an online community are now just as likely to field incoming customer inquiries or complaints…

Digital dating is nothing to scoff at; it’s a big business, and it’s changed a lot of lives — mostly for the better. Yet, while dating has seen enormous progress during the Digital Era, there’s still a lot garbage out there, and the space is still mostly dominated by a handful of old names…

Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Twitter Introduces Lead Generation “Cards”: The Lead Generation Card is “a new type of Twitter Card that will […

For all the amazing ways social media has changed our lives, it’s come with some downsides, as well. Chief among those is FOMO — that is, of course, Fear of Missing Out, a documented disease among social media addicts
Surely you’re familiar with the feeling. A simple night relaxing at home is no longer good enoughTwitter brings fun updates from friends on vacationInstagram is full of photos from a party you weren’t invited toFacebook is a veritable minefield full of reminders of all the wild fun you’re not having there on the couch…

This week Twitter announced a number of new offerings to their advertising platform designed to create new opportunities for marketers to drive action from users, Lead Generation Cards and Targeted TV Ads.
Since the introduction of Twitter Promoted Tweets and Accounts in 2010, the ability to directly serve ads to users was limited to these traditional display ads…