Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn:
- Twitter’s Vine app now supports embeds, expanded sharing to Facebook & Twitter – videos created on Vine can now be embedded across the web in two styles, simple or postcard; the update also expands sharing options on Facebook and Twitter (TechCrunch)
- Twitter introduces updated features for developers – Twitter adds mobile app deep-linking for Twitter Cards and three new types of Cards (Twitter blog)
- New mobile updates for Android, iPhone and mobile web – Twitter for Android has been redesigned; in addition, all three mobile apps and Twitter.com now show more types of content in expanded Tweets: photo galleries, apps and product listings (Twitter blog)
- Facebook launches Home, its Android phone project – Facebook unveils a series of customizations that replaces the look and feel of a standard Android phone with a set of Facebook apps, home screens and messaging experiences (AllThingsD)
- Facebook highlights ad performance in Ads Manager tool – new updates allow advertisers to more easily see how campaigns are performing against specific goals and assess ROI (MediaPost)
Google+
- Google+ expands sign-in tool to thousands more sites – Google+ announced a partnership with two companies that provide social sign-in tools, Gigya and Janrain; the goal is to make Google+ a more commonly used registration tool alongside Facebook Connect and Twitter (GigaOM)
- LinkedIn adds Facebook-style mentions of people and companies in status updates and home-page comments – users can now tag companies or users in status updates or homepage comments; a notification is sent to the company or user that is tagged (TechCrunch)
Any updates to social media platforms that we missed? Let us know in the comments below.
