Instagram Expands to Desktops: This Week in Social Media

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 Feed for PCs: Instagram has gone beyond its mobile-only interface and now allows you to browse Instagram feeds from the desktop – just like you do on your mobile device. Go to instagram.com and log into your account to give it a try.

Tumblr Tests Real-Time Notifications: Tumblr is “testing real-time notifications from people you follow.” This is similar to the Facebook Ticker.

Discussion From Our Networking Clubs: Thousands of social media marketers and small business owners are asking questions and helping others in our free Networking Clubs. Here are a few interesting discussions worth highlighting:

• Share your examples of great Facebook cover photos here.
• What's your experience with promoted tweets on Twitter?
• What content marketing questions do you have for DJ Waldow?

Pinterest Rolls Out Latest iPhone and iPad App Version: This version provides some features to make it easier to manage your pins, such as editing pins and deleting comments.

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Twitter Updates Android and iOS Apps: “This release provides a single stream of content in each tab, so you can better find what's most important to you when you're on the go.”

LinkedIn Reaches 200 Million Members: Check out this infographic to learn more about the people on LinkedIn.

Here's more news you might want to follow:

Technorati Releases 2013 Digital Influence Report: Technorati's 2013 Digital Influence Report replaces their historical State of the Blogosphere and expands the concept to all things social.

Twitter Acquires Leading Social TV Analytics Company: Twitter acquires Bluefin Labs, a leading social TV analytics company that provides data products to brand advertisers, agencies and TV networks.”

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