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?
Facebook Introduces Facebook Audience Insights: “AÂ new tool designed to help marketers learn more about their target audiences, including aggregate information about geography, demographics, purchase behavior and more.”
Twitter Announces Mute Feature: This new feature “gives you even more control over the content you see on Twitter by letting you remove a user's content from key parts of your Twitter experience.”
Pinterest Rolls Out Paid Test: Pinterest is “working with a small group of brands in the U.S. to roll out a paid test in [its] search and category feeds.”
Buffer Introduces Feeds: “You can now add RSS feeds to your Buffer social profiles and share links directly from your favorite sites from right inside your Buffer dashboard.”
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What do you think? Did any other social media news items interest you this week? Have you found any other social media tools worth sharing? Please share your comments below.
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