Social Media Observatory

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At the beginning of this year, Facebook overtook Google Maps as the most-used mobile app in the U.S. The social network giant also recently introduced a controversial new mobile interface, Facebook Home. Earlier this week, Home hit 1 million downl

Google announced a major upgrade to its Hangouts real-time communication service, rolling out a new stand-alone Hangouts app for the web, Android and iOS that will be available later Wednesday. The app was introduced by Vic Gundotra, senior

Facebook has cut off Path’s ability to access its “Find Friends” function, according to a report. Users of the social-network app, which let users share private updates with close friends and family, can no longer search for friends using F

The popular iOS video-sharing app Vine will be coming to Android in the near future, according to its founders. The Verge is reporting the app — which Twitter launched in January — will bring the ability to create and share six-

Facebook has hired the manager who led the development of Apple’s widely criticized Maps app. Richard Williamson joined the social network as its director of engineering this month, according to his LinkedIn profileBloomberg reported Wednes

Get ready to rockTwitter is about to launch its long-rumored standalone music app Friday, according to a report. The app’s existence was rapidly becoming one of the worst-kept secrets in social media, especially after American Idol host Rya

During an invite-only developer event Tuesday, Twitter Cards unveiled several updates, adding the ability to share even more information on Twitter within a single tweet. Currently used by over 10,000 developers, the update adds mobile app

By now, you’ve noticed the app Snapchat has caught some major attention Well-known for its promiscuous reputation, the app lets users send quick, SMS-like messages, which can include candid photos or videos that (supposedly) disappe

Flickr released an update to its iOS app on Saturday, adding hashtag support to the photo-sharing service’s mobile platform While Flickr has long used a tagging system to categorize pictures on the web, the term “tags” has been renamed to f