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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 Adds Posts and Status Updates to Graph Search: “Now you will be able to search for status updates, photo captions, check-ins and comments to find things shared with you.”
Facebook Announces New Features for Mobile Ad Unit: To help drive engagement and conversions, Facebook adds “new features to mobile app ads that are designed to help businesses reach people that have already downloaded their apps and direct them back into specific features, content or products within the app.”
LinkedIn Adds New Features to Mobile: The LinkedIn app for mobile has “flatter, cleaner and more modern designs” and you can now “keep your professional reputation fresh by accepting endorsements from your connections and by adding skills to your profile.”
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Here’s some up-coming news to follow:
Facebook Updates Ads Content in News Feed: Facebook is “working on some updates to the ads algorithm to improve the relevance and quality of the ads people see.”
Facebook Introduces Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram to Home: “You can view more of the content you care about on your lock screen. When you wake up your phone, swipe through photos and posts from Flickr, Pinterest, Tumblr and Instagram, in addition to Facebook.”
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