Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn:
- Twitter releases faster tweeting, DM’ing, image previewing, and replying options in TweetDeck – Twitter announced several new updates to TweetDeck, including a dedicated tweeting panel that allows users to tweet to multiple accounts (VentureBeat)
- Twitter is testing out a new ‘TV Trending’ box at the top of your timeline – Twitter “appears to be” testing a new feature where links to popular TV shows appear as Twitter cards at the top of your timeline, complete with related Tweet data and show information (TechCrunch)
- Twitter tells you where the party’s at with local alerts – Twitter is “selectively pushing” local event notifications in users’ timelines on iOS (CNET)
- Facebook to buy mobile technologies for voice recognition – Facebook is acquiring Mobile Technologies, a developer of speech-recognition tools (Bloomberg)
- Facebook mobile app hooks up with OpenTable – last week Facebook announced a new integration with Open Table; users will be able to book reservations directly through the Facebook mobile app (AllThingsD)
- Facebook to test its own PayPal competitor in bid to simplify mobile purchases – in the next month or so, Facebook will be testing a new payments product that will enable users to make purchases on Facebook mobile apps using their Facebook login information (AllThingsD)
- Fame on: Facebook testing VIP-only app – Facebook is testing a new app that will let celebs easily monitor Facebook fan chatter about themselves from a mobile device (AllThingsD)
- LinkedIn growing up: opens up to high school students over 13, launches dedicated pages for universities worldwide – LinkedIn is now promoting itself to high school students (ages 13+) and launched University Pages; these changes are rolling out globally and younger users will be accepted starting September 12 (TechCrunch)
Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!
