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    Facebook Verified Pages and Profiles: This Week in Social Media

    by Cindy King / June 1, 2013

    social media researchWelcome 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 Launches Verified Pages and Profiles: The new verified Pages are “to help people find the authentic accounts of celebrities and other high-profile people and businesses on Facebook.” This is also rolling out to profiles as well.

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    "Verified Pages have a small, blue check mark beside their name on timelines, in search results and elsewhere on Facebook."

    Quora Launches Full-Text Mobile Search: Both the iPhone and Android for Quora apps will now “offer the same full-text, keyword-based search capability that you can use on the computer.”

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    Full-text search is now available on the Quora mobile apps.

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    Hangout Magix: A free tool to create graphics for your Google+ Hangouts.

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    Hangout Magix allows you to create a variety of graphics to put on your Google+ Hangouts.

    WhoTweetedMe: A free tool to analyze a URL and show you its most influential retweeters, potential reach and timeline.

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    About the authorCindy King

    Cindy King is the director of editorial for Social Media Examiner. She spent 25 years abroad in international business development and then built her own international business using social business networking.
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