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Social Media News Roundup: November ’17 Week 4

In social media news this week, Facebook Messenger upgrades its sharing image resolution, Pinterest helps us find the picture we can’t search with words, Instagram improves its use on Mobile Internet browsers and Snapchat adds to its promotional features. Messenger’s High Res Upgrade Facebook has upgraded their image sharing resolution through
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Social Media News Roundup: November ’17 Week 3

In social media news this week, it appears social sites have indulged in new apps and improvements to their services, with Facebook taking on video content, Google aiding hungry users, a simplified Twitter promoting system and Instagram acknowledging the hashtag as a trend to follow. Facebook’s New Video App An

Social Media News Roundup: August ’17 Week 1

In the news this week – Facebook heralds faster webpages, Instagram Stories celebrates first birthday and celebrities on Twitter are robots… Facebook update gives preference to faster loading web pages An upcoming Facebook update will soon give preferential treatment to faster loading web pages. Facebook has announced that throughout the

Social Media News Roundup: June ‘17 Week 4

In the news this week – Facebook announces new features for group admins and Instagram wants to buddy up with Hollywood movie stars… Facebook is adding new features for group admins On Thursday 22nd of June Facebook held their first Communities Summit in Chicago. Attended by hundreds of group admins,

Social Media News Roundup: May ’17 Week 4

In the news this week – Twitter adds 69 new emojis, Facebook allows fundraising for personal causes and Instagram begins to understand links… Twitter adds 69 new emojis, becoming the first social network to support Emoji 5.0 Twitter has become the first social networking site to support the newest round of

Social Media News Roundup: May ’17 Week 2

In the news this week – Twitter signs deal to live-stream NFL content, Instagram allows uploads from it’s mobile site and that guy who really wanted some chicken nuggets gets some chicken nuggets… Twitter signs deal to stream NFL content (but no games) Twitter may have missed out on the
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Social Media News Roundup: April ’17 Week 3

In the news this week – major announcements from F8 Facebook Developer Conference and Instagram automation crackdown… Mind-reading brain-computer typing interface Perhaps the biggest reveal of Facebook’s F8 conference was the announcement that the company’s immensely secretive Building 8 R&D lab were working on a direct brain-to-computer interface which would
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Social Media News Roundup: April ’17 Week 2

In the news this week – Snapchat announce new product, Twitter tests a complaints bot and a guy is 15m RTs away from a lifetime of chicken nuggets… New Snapchat product confirms whether ads increase foot traffic Snap is launching a significant new product which will allow businesses to see

Social Media News Roundup: March ’17 Week 4

In the news this week – Instagram announce a bunch of updates, Twitter consider a premium Tweetdeck, and Ed Sheeran stands up to Facebook for a busker… Instagram rolls out option to save live videos to your phone Instagram has begun offering users the option to download their Live streams

Social Media News Roundup: March ’17 Week 3

In the news this week – more options for live streaming on social media, attack of the Twitter bots, and the discovery of Skull Island on Google maps… Up to 48 million Twitter accounts are bots A new study released by University of Southern California and Indiana University has suggested