Category: Weekly News

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 Releases Augmented Reality Camera Effects Platform: Facebook officially released the Camera Effects Platform at its annual F8 Conference for developers this week. The new Camera Effect Platform "turns smartphone cameras into the first AR platform" and provides "an opportunity for artists and developers to create effects for the Facebook

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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
Instagram Rolls Out Redesigned Direct: Instagram launched a new Instagram Direct that makes it "fast and easy to turn any conversation into a visual conversation with photos and videos." All texts, uploads, and reshares sent in Direct will now appear in the same thread with disappearing photos and videos, which allows users to "seamlessly go back and

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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 Tests Native Split-screen, Two-person Live Broadcasts: This week, Social Media Examiner staff reported that Facebook appears to be slowly rolling out native split-screen, two-person broadcasts in Facebook Live. This new feature is currently limited to personal profiles on Facebook's iOS mobile app for iPhone. It doesn't seem to be available

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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 Rolls Out Facebook Stories and Other Snapchat-like Camera Features Globally: Facebook rolled out a new in-app camera for iOS and Android that's "packed with dozens of effects like masks, frames and interactive filters that you can apply to your photos and videos." These include dynamic objects, artistic filters, and branded masks for some

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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 Expands Ability to Broadcast Live from Desktops and Laptops to All Users: Facebook announced that everyone around the world can now "broadcast live video to Facebook from their desktop or laptop computers."

Facebook also added a new Live feature that "makes it easy to use streaming software or external hardware when going live from a

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