Here’s your quick weekly summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features on Facebook, Twitter, Google and Foursquare:
- Facebook unveils shared photo albums – last week Facebook announced shared photo albums, a new feature allowing multiple users to add photos to the same album; album creators can share access with as many as 50 contributors (Mashable)
- Why marketers should give Facebook’s new competition guidelines a chance – Facebook updated their “Pages Terms” to make it easier for businesses to create and run promotions/contests on the social network (Simply Zesty)
- Facebook considers adding profile photos to facial recognition – an update to Facebook’s data use policy will improve the performance of the ‘Tag Suggest’ feature (which helps identify friends to tag in photos using facial recognition) and reveals that facial recognition may now be expanded to users’ public profile photos (Reuters)
- Twitter acquires social TV tracker Trendrr – last week Twitter acquired Trendrr, which had previously been competition for Twitter’s in-house analytics products; Trendrr’s analytics product will be shut down after current contracts expire (AllThingsD)
- With product update, Twitter aims to make following conversations easier – tweets will now appear in order of conversational sequence inside users’ timelines, instead of the classic reverse-chronological timeline order (AllThingsD)
- Twitter updates Android, iOS And Web with new conversation view, abuse reporting – in addition to the new conversation view, Twitter’s mobile and web updates feature enhanced sharing and abuse reporting capabilities (TechCrunch)
- Twitter’s Lead Generation Card opens to all advertisers with a new layout, analytics, and more – after a limited release period, Twitter has opened up its Lead Generation Card to all advertisers and small-to-medium size businesses; the product now has a simpler setup and is available in all languages (The Next Web)
Foursquare
- Foursquare says it’s ready to impress you now – Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley revealed a new feature that will allow Foursquare users to automatically get tips – via mobile – about a place they’re in, without even having to open the Foursquare app (AllThingsD)
- Google’s Hangouts to go high-def – Google is bringing high-definition quality to video chats (Hangouts); first for its live “On Air” Hangouts, then to the public over the next few weeks (AllThingsD)
Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!
