Some Facebook users are seeing alerts above the Graph Search bars on their News Feeds, prompting them to “Add your phone number to help secure your account.”
Facebook To Users: ‘Add Your Phone Number To Help Secure Your Account’
Kevin Evanetski
Mediabistro Event
We're kicking off our upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp with a special keynote presentation by Ella Chick (left), the digital producer at Anderson Cooper 360°. She'll discuss how the network uses social media for breaking news and leverages social media to draw attention to organizations and causes. Learn more about our program and register here.
Build a Social Business with the Digital Producer at Anderson Cooper 360°
We're kicking off our upcoming Social Media Marketing Boot Camp with a special keynote presentation by Ella Chick (left), the digital producer at Anderson Cooper 360°. She'll discuss how the network uses social media for breaking news and leverages social media to draw attention to organizations and causes. Learn more about our program and register here. Facebook Testing User-Added Emoticons In Status Updates?
Facebook appears to be testing expanded availability of emoticons in status updates independent of those available via the menu of emoticons and actions it began rolling out to users last month, as some users are finding that they can add their own emoticons to status updates, independent of the menu, but those emoticons are only appearing on their Timelines, and not on the News Feed.
Facebook Testing New Offers Icon?
Some Facebook users are seeing a redesigned offers icon in their activity logs and status update areas.
Facebook Testing Sliding Scale Responses To Research Polls In Sponsored Stories?
Facebook has allowed advertisers to incorporate polls into their sponsored stories since late 2011, but some readers are seeing a new variation that incorporates a sliding scale, rather than multiple choice answers.
One-Hour Facebook Ads?
A new episode of Fox series “The Following,” starring Kevin Bacon, aired at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT Monday, and some Facebook users saw sponsored stories in their news feeds roughly one hour earlier, prompting them to tune in.
Facebook Global Marketing Wants Your Questions Now
Facebook wants to know if you have any questions for its Global Marketing Solutions team, and is prompting page administrators to that effect on their homepages.
