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What’s New This Week?
Twitter Introduces Lead Generation “Cards”: The Lead Generation Card is “a new type of Twitter Card that will allow marketers to collect leads directly within the tweet.” For now, this is only available as a feature in Promoted Tweets—a paid feature of Twitter Ads.
Twitter Gets Two-Factor Login Verification: “When you sign into twitter.com, there’s a second check to make sure it’s really you. You’ll be asked to register a verified phone number and a confirmed email address.”
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Twitter Launches TV Ad Targeting: Twitter Amplify: Twitter Amplify is a partnership program “to extend the instant two-screen viewing experience from sports into other broadcast categories through partnerships” with other television companies.
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LinkedIn Introduces New Navigation Bar: “As you explore the new navigation bar, you will notice a few visually striking differences, including a simplified menu of tabs to help you quickly and easily locate the features and content that are of most value to you.”
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Pinterest Makes Pins More Useful: Pinterest has “worked with some popular websites to show more information on some pins,” product pins, recipe pins and movie pins.
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Flickr Gets Biggr, Spectaculr, Wherevr: Flickr’s latest redesign makes it more spectacular, much bigger and one you can take anywhere. Users get a free terabyte of space so you can share all of your images in full resolution.
Foursquare Adds Super-Specific Searches: With the latest “update for iOS and Android, Foursquare helps you find exactly what you want, whatever that may be.”
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