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Pinterest appear to be rolling out the French-language translation of their site.
We’ve seen the new language option appearing on the site, though we’re not seeing it consistently just yet.
Are you seeing it available as one of the language choices now?
And what will an influx of more French style mean for the site?
Pinterest have just updated their ‘careers’ page with a number of new roles. Here are the extra roles they’re now hiring for:
Is it time for you to get a job at Pinterest?
Pinterest’s Pinterest page is back.
As just announced on the official Pinterest blog, the Pinterest team has resurrected their own Pinterest account to share goings-on in their office and relating to Pinterest.
Makes sense.
But what do I like best about this?
What I like best is their nifty use of colour for their board covers. It really makes the profile stand out. Good inspiration for us all!
What do you think of Pinterest’s profile page? (You can see it here.)
And have you come across other ideas for making Pinterest profile pages stand out?
Popular online store Zappos has released a service that recommends products based on a user’s Pinterest pins.
Bloomberg’s Danielle Kucera reports how the new service, PinPointing, has been launched by the Zappos Labs team in San Francisco.
Zappos apparently got approval for the new service from Pinterest, though the companies aren’t officially teaming up in any way.
I tried getting recommendations for the Total Pinterest account, but PinPointing wouldn’t suggest anything — fair enough, given that we mostly pin Pinterest marketing tips!
Trying some different accounts, I found the recommendations to be very hit and miss:
It’s early days for the PinPointing service, so I’m sure their algorithm will be improving over time. Results will no doubt be best for people who regularly pin the kinds of products that Zappos sells.
This is an innovate new way of tapping into Pinterest. Perhaps when Pinterest release their API it will become possible for retailers to integrate with Pinterest more closely and use Pinterest profiles to personalise product recommendations within the retailer’s main website, in email marketing, etc.
Are you seeing a Pinterest error saying “You have exceeded the maximum rate of users followed. Slow down a little. (error code fl1)?”
Some readers are reporting seeing this error message when they try to follow someone new. This happens despite them not doing anything excessive. Unfortunately, in these cases it tends to be very difficult to get any response from the Pinterest support team about why, specifically, it is happening. The support team is almost certainly overwhelmed with incoming support queries from Pinterest’s enormous user base.
Have you seen this message?
Have you got any advice for others who are confronted by it?
Pinterest just went more mobile: a few hours ago they released the first official Pinterest Android app and first device-specific Pinterest iPad app.
Android owners in particular had been clamouring for an app for their devices. Now it’s here, and apparently has been designed specifically for the Android platform, rather than being a port of their iPhone app.
Interestingly, the new Pinterest iPad app includes a built-in web browser with a button that lets you see everything people have pinned from a given website.
Alongside the Android and iPad app announcements, Pinterest also released a revamped version of their iPhone app which is faster and has introduced a new 2-column display for browsing.
With mobile usage continuing to grow quickly, these new apps are going to be important interfaces through which people interact with the service.
Need an easy way to monitor mentions of a brand on Pinterest and other social networks? Then ViralHeat could be the tool for you.
ViralHeat lets you see all pins that have mentioned your brand in their descriptions or see graphs of the number of mentions over time…
Pinterest is just one of the services that ViralHeat can monitor. Alongside your Pinterest analytics, you can see corresponding information about your brand mentions on Twitter, Facebook, video sites such as YouTube, and across other websites.
Pinterest have just added German and Dutch language options to the site.
The new options (“Deutch” and “Nederlands”) bring Pinterest’s language option tally to 7, though that number includes two variants of both Spanish and Portuguese.
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It’s official: You no longer need an invitation to join Pinterest.
Pinterest announced the change with a post on their blog yesterday afternoon. Some people are speculating that the change is something Pinterest have wanted to do for a long while, but were holding off on until they felt confident their systems could manage a big influx of new users. Pinterest’s $100 million investment received in May has likely helped them improve their infrastructure.
According to the best data we’ve seen, Pinterest’s growth has been fairly steady over the last few months; down from the explosive growth they experienced previously, but still impressive for a social network of their already huge size. It will be interesting to see if opening up registration will accelerate things.
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Has your Pinterest account been hacked?
There is worrying news for Pinterest users. As reported by LLsocial, numerous Pinterest accounts appear to have been hacked into, resulting, in some cases, in pins being deleted and spam pins being added by the hackers.
Pinterest seem to have been aware of the issue for some time.
Last week they posted an update to their support pages, saying that some Pinterest accounts are being locked as a result of suspicious activity. The users are logged out and prevented from accessing the account until they’ve reset their password.
Unfortunately, if this happens to you, Pinterest say there is no way to recover lost pins or boards.
This is a serious worry for Pinterest users. Not only are spam pins being placed on people’s accounts, but lovingly-curated boards are being lost.
Pinterest isn’t the only popular site to have had security issues recently. Over the last few weeks, Yahoo, LinkedIn and Last.fm have all reported compromised accounts.
If you receive a notification from Pinterest saying that your account has been locked, they now have a survey that you can fill in to help them investigate the issue. You can complete it here.
We’ll keep you updated on this issue as we get more information.
Have you noticed anything strange with your account lately? How do you feel Pinterest should be responding to these new security concerns?
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