Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr and Spotify:
- Twitter Updates mobile apps to add new features – Twitter launched new versions of its iPhone and Android apps, with new features like the ability to add a new photo in just six seconds, and new preview panes for tweets (Simply Zesty)
- Twitter amps up lists feature, lets users create 1,000 lists – Twitter users can now make 1,000 lists (instead of just 20); each list can include 5,000 accounts (CNET)
- Twitter’s mobile crash reporting tool Crashlytics arrives on Android – last week Crashlytics released its “long-awaited solution” for the new Android SDK (TechCrunch)
- Twitter Music Beefs Up Charts on the Web – last Friday Twitter updated the website for Twitter Music to better emphasize the ‘charts’ feature; the update breaks down music categories by genre and features top music categories like “emerging,” “hunted” and “popular” (AllThingsD)
- Twitter adds inline profile editing, drag-and-drop photo uploads – an update enables faster (inline) changes to your Twitter bio and drag-and-drop upload capability for your header and profile photos; it’s available on the web and mobile apps (Engadget)
- Twitter releases Vine for Android smartphones as it tops 13M users – Twitter has finally brought Vine to Android, 5 months after it launched on iOS; it’s a free download for anyone running Android 4.0 or higher (TechCrunch)
- Facebook unveils Verified Pages and Profiles – high profile Facebook accounts now have an added layer of authenticity with a new verified feature for Pages and Profiles (TechCrunch)
- Facebook advertises that you can turn off Home “if you need some alone time” – Home (Facebook’s homescreen replacement) can be temporarily deactivated for HTC First or Android users (TechCrunch)
- LinkedIn gets a little safer with two-step verification – new optional security measures on LinkedIn require access to your password and mobile phone (CNET)
- LinkedIn gives users the ability to share photos, documents and presentations in their status updates – users can now upload images, documents, presentations and other file types to any post that they want to share with their LinkedIn network (The Next Web)
Tumblr
- Tumblr adds in-stream ads online in first post-acquisition bid to grow revenue – Tumblr will begin rolling out sponsored web posts this month; the ads will be integrated into the user streams of Tumblr’s desktop users (AdAge)
Spotify
- Spotify launches “Discover” feature for its web app – a news feed that allows users to see recommendations, songs and playlists based on their favorite music is available on Spotify’s new web client after a limited release last month (TechCrunch)
Any updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments!
