Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Storify:
- Facebook is experimenting with becoming a mobile games publisher – Facebook is working with a handful of small mobile game developers to do publishing by offering distribution through mobile ads in exchange for a cut of revenue (TechCrunch)
- Facebook makes a play for more mobile ads with instant setup – Facebook has sped up the process for creating mobile app install ads; the simplified process may make a significant impact on Facebook’s bottom line (CNET)
- Twitter testing tweet translation tool – Twitter has incorporated a translate button into its website, though only for select users (ABC News)
- To drive more clicks, Twitter is testing a popular tweets history feature – Twitter is testing a new feature – for embedded tweets – that provides a list of links (below the tweet) showing where a tweet has been referenced (TechCrunch)
- Twitter adds charts to help find music you actually want to hear – the 2 month old Twitter music service has been updated with a discovery feature called ‘charts;’ users can now find music through a genre-based approach (CNET)
- Twitter to allow advertisers to target browsing history, email addresses – Twitter advertisers can now target users based on web browsing and personal information like email addresses; however, users can choose to opt out of targeting that uses third-party data (AdAge)
- LinkedIn beefs up mobile search – last week LinkedIn updated its iOS and Android applications, improving mobile search functionality; users can now search for job openings, company pages and professional groups on the service (All Things D)
Storify
- Storify adds more tools for brands (and others) with new collaboration and export features – new features for Storify focus on collaboration (different users can now edit a single account without sharing passwords) and sharing – users can now export a Storify as a PDF (TechCrunch)
Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!
