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  • Social Media Marketing WorldImprove your strategy & find your next big ideas—April 28-30DISCOVER WHAT YOU'VE BEEN MISSING

    Twitter Weekly Email Digests: This Week in Social Media

    by Cindy King / May 19, 2012

    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?

    Twitter Brings Weekly Email Digest to Your Inbox: You can now “discover the best of Twitter in a weekly email digest delivered to your inbox. This summary features the most relevant tweets and stories shared by the people you’re connected to on Twitter.”

    twitter email digest
    “Stories feature a design similar to the recently updated Discover tab, emphasizing who shared each story beneath summaries to help you decide which ones matter most to you.”

    Facebook Initial Public Offering Proves Social is Hot: “Facebook has priced its initial public offering at $38 per share, making it the third-largest IPO in U.S. history.”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiuX64iHrgM

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        • The importance of social media monitoring
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    Facebook Insights Has Two New Features for Apps: You can now check App Ratings and Negative Feedback for your apps on Facebook Insights. “App Ratings and Negative Feedback can inform not only how you design your app experience to increase engagement and satisfaction, but also how your app grows through the App Center.”

    facebook app rating by gender age
    The new App Ratings provide a variety of information including statistics by gender and age.

    Facebook Improves Mobile News Feed Design: The photos in your mobile Facebook news feed are now much bigger. Shares of single photos look a lot like Instagrams.

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    Photos shared on Facebook are now larger on mobile news feeds.

    Facebook Slowly Launches Facebook Pages Manager iPhone App Outside of the U.S.: iPhone users in Australia, New Zealand and possibly a few other countries can currently download a free Facebook Pages Manager app to manage their Facebook pages.

    facebook pages manager app for iphone
    This new app helps Facebook page managers on the go.

    Google Adds More Google+ Integration Inside Gmail: “Today’s changes include quick access to contact details when viewing past conversations as well as improved integration with Google+ circles.”

    google+ circle integration with gmail
    “Circles are also now supported in search and filters. Find messages from a specific circle by typing circle:[circle name
    LinkedIn Today Redesign: LinkedIn Today has a new design. LinkedIn has “made changes across the product experience to offer further customization of news so that members can receive the most timely and relevant news impacting their peers and industry.”

    linkedin today redesign
    There's a “Customize your news” tab on the right side which enables you to control the news feed in LinkedIn Today.

    LinkedIn Introduces Windows Phone App: This is LinkedIn's latest mobile application.

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    “You’ll find that in some cases (hint: companies and jobs), the Windows Phone app offers even more functionality than its iOS and Android siblings.”

    Here's a useful social media tool worth noting:

    Scan-to-gram: A tool to turn your Instagram profile into a QR code.

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    Scan-to-gram provides a new fun way for companies to have a web presence and grow their following on Instagram.

    What social media news caught your interest this week? Please share your comments below.

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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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