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 Testing Video Insights for Personal Profiles: This week, Social Media Examiner staff noted that Facebook appears to be testing video metrics for personal profile users. The video metrics include insights on engagement, views, minutes viewed, and overall performance for the past 7, 30, and 60 days. To learn more about this possible new

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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 Globally Launches Messenger Day: Facebook launched Messenger Day, a new way to share photos and videos "as they happen" in the stand-alone Messenger app. Like with Snapchat Stories and Instagram Stories, Messenger Day allows users to customize their photos and videos with thousands of frames, effects, and stickers and each post disappears

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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 Algorithm Ranks Reactions Higher Than Likes: Facebook announced that reactions "will [now] affect post ranking slightly more than Likes" in the news feed algorithm because it has found reactions to be "an even stronger signal" when it comes to indicating what content users would like to see. However, Facebook clarifies that all reactions

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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 Ability to Add Multiple Photos and Videos to One Post: Instagram announced that users can now "combine up to 10 photos and videos in one post and swipe through to see them all." A new icon on the Instagram app allows users to select multiple photos and videos, which can then be reorganized, edited, or layered with a filter one by

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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 Announces Autoplay Sound, Picture-in-picture View, and Other Updates to Video: Facebook rolled out four major updates "that make watching video on Facebook richer, more engaging and more flexible." These updates include autoplay sound that "fades in and out" and the option to minimize Facebook videos to a "picture-in-picture view" as you

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