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 Redesigns Follow Button and Like Box: “Similar to the Like and Share buttons, the Follow button and the Like Box plugin will also be updated with” Facebook's new design.

Vine Releases in More Languages: “Now, it's even easier for people around the world to watch and share posts that make us laugh, teach us something new or help us find out what's happening in the world.”

Twitter Improves Age-Screening Experience: Twitter is rolling out “an improvement to the age-screening experience on Twitter.com, iOS and Android devices.”

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Weekly Marketing Tip
Here we bring you weekly marketing tips from Michael Stelzner, founder of Social Media Examiner:
How to Create Custom Social Share Buttons for Your Site
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