Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Vine and Livefyre:
- Facebook amends privacy policy by removing line on minors – Facebook has updated its user privacy policies, including removing language about how teenagers’ content can be used in ads (Bloomberg)
- Twitter’s new app refines DM experience with suggested users, introduces new interface experiments – Twitter’s app update includes the ability to filter search results by media type, to search for local content, asks users where they are when composing a tweet, and adds suggested users to DM; Twitter is also testing some additional features among smaller groups of users (TechCrunch)
- Twitter drops option to receive DMs from any user – last month, Twitter offered an option for users to have anyone direct message them; now this option has been removed and once again only users who follow each other can exchange DMs (PC Mag)
- Twitter tests cleaner web client design with more prominent logo and tweet composer – Twitter is testing a new website design, offering a different visual look with the same basic layout; it includes a more prominent Twitter logo, a new design for the DM icon, and a new compose window (TechCrunch)
- LinkedIn creates product pages in bid for more content-marketing dollars – LinkedIn is testing “showcase pages” for a pilot group of brands, letting them create pages for specific products; marketers can promote the content on those pages as sponsored updates in users’ news feeds (AdAge)
YouTube
- YouTube available on the Xbox One, after all – the new gaming system will have a YouTube app available at launch, using both voice and gesture control (GigaOM)
- Introducing Place Pins, for the explorer in all of us – new Place Pins allow users to pin locations, including address, phone number and directions (Pinterest blog)
- Instagram comes to Windows Phone – last Wednesday Instagram (finally) launched an app for Windows Phone (AllThingsD)
Vine
- Vine goes global with added language support – last week Vine announced support for 19 new languages, focusing on Europe and Asia (AllThingsD)
Livefyre
- Livefyre acquires analytics startup Realtidbits – social commenting platform Livefyre acquired Realtidbits; Realtidbits’ users will be moved over to Livefyre, and Realtidbits analytics software will be offered to Livefyre’s enterprise customers (AllThingsD)
Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!
