Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it plain and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of contraptions to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will show up alongside the text and drawing devices. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your photo or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their dearest social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's private details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected playmates of the discrepancy, immovable the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope spinned out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook flipped out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that emerges behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has began ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to showcase, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the devices and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Cracking News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with shove notifications for cracking news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful instrument for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things commence to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook instruments. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Swift Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an sensational look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook contraptions, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The investigate also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multiplicity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results display that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of observe time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and produces “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it plain and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of contraptions to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing instruments. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your picture or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your dearest social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Display with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of playmates such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected playmates of the discrepancy, immobilized the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation implements, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope spinned out a snowman that will show up if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has commenced ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to demonstrate, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch sides chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the contraptions and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with shove notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has eliminated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful instrument for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging forearm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things embark to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook implements. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Prompt Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an sensational look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook devices, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The examine also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a diversity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of observe time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it ordinary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger spinned out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of devices to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will show up alongside the text and drawing implements. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your picture or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your dearest social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, stationary the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment instruments. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook flipped out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that emerges behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has embarked ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to showcase, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch sides chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the implements and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with shove notifications for cracking news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh violating news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has eliminated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful device for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things embark to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh individual AI system called Jarvis using Facebook contraptions. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Rapid Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an off the hook look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook devices, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The examine also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a diversity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of see time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the fattest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it ordinary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of implements to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing implements. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your picture or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your dearest social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Demonstrate with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, immovable the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation implements, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope spinned out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook flipped out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has commenced ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to demonstrate, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the contraptions and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Cracking News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for cracking news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has eliminated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful instrument for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things begin to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook implements. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Prompt Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an special look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook devices, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The explore also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a diversity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results display that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of witness time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the fattest retail events of the year,” and produces “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it plain and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of implements to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing devices. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your pic or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their dearest social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's private details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, motionless the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment instruments. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will show up if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook flipped out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has embarked ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to demonstrate, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the devices and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Cracking News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh violating news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful implement for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging palm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things commence to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook implements. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Prompt Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an special look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook instruments, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The investigate also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multiplicity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results display that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of see time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the fattest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it plain and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger spinned out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of implements to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing implements. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your pic or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your dearest social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, immobilized the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation implements, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that emerges behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has commenced ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to demonstrate, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the instruments and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with shove notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful instrument for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things begin to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook devices. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Rapid Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an off the hook look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook contraptions, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The explore also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a diversity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results display that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of see time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the largest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it ordinary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger spinned out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of devices to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing instruments. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your photo or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of playmates such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected playmates of the discrepancy, immobile the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that emerges behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has commenced ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to display, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch sides chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the devices and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with shove notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful implement for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things begin to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook implements. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Prompt Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an sensational look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook implements, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The probe also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multitude of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results demonstrate that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of observe time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and produces “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it elementary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger spinned out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of devices to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will show up alongside the text and drawing devices. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your photo or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their dearest social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of playmates such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, motionless the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation devices, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has embarked ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to showcase, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the contraptions and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh violating news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful device for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging forearm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things commence to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh individual AI system called Jarvis using Facebook implements. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Rapid Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an off the hook look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook instruments, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The examine also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a diversity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of observe time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and produces “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it ordinary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of implements to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will show up alongside the text and drawing devices. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your pic or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their dearest social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, immobile the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment instruments.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has commenced ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to showcase, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the implements and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with shove notifications for cracking news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful instrument for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things begin to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook instruments. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Rapid Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an sensational look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook implements, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The investigate also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multiplicity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results demonstrate that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of observe time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and produces “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it ordinary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of contraptions to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing contraptions. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your pic or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Demonstrate with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of playmates such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, immobilized the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has began ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to demonstrate, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the devices and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Cracking News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for cracking news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh violating news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful device for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things commence to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Private AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook devices. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Prompt Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an off the hook look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook instruments, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The examine also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multiplicity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of see time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the fattest retail events of the year,” and produces “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it elementary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger spinned out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of contraptions to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing implements. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your picture or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Display with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of playmates such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, stationary the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation implements, replay trimming, and other adjustment instruments.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope spinned out a snowman that will show up if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that emerges behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has began ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to demonstrate, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch sides chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the devices and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh violating news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful contraption for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping mitt emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things embark to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook contraptions. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Swift Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an sensational look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook contraptions, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The probe also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multiplicity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of witness time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it plain and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger spinned out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of contraptions to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will show up alongside the text and drawing implements. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your picture or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's private details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of playmates such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, immobilized the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation devices, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation implements, replay trimming, and other adjustment instruments.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope spinned out a snowman that will show up if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has commenced ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to demonstrate, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the implements and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Cracking News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has eliminated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful device for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things embark to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh individual AI system called Jarvis using Facebook devices. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Rapid Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an special look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook instruments, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The investigate also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multiplicity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results demonstrate that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of see time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it plain and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of implements to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will show up alongside the text and drawing instruments. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your pic or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's private details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Showcase with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected playmates of the discrepancy, immobilized the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment instruments. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has began ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to display, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the implements and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with shove notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh violating news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has eliminated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful device for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging arm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things begin to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook devices. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Prompt Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an sensational look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook instruments, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The probe also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a diversity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results display that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of observe time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it elementary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger spinned out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of implements to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will show up alongside the text and drawing instruments. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your picture or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their dearest social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Display with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, stationary the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope spinned out a snowman that will show up if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook flipped out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has embarked ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to showcase, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch sides chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the implements and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with shove notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh violating news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Eliminates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful instrument for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging forearm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things embark to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Private AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh individual AI system called Jarvis using Facebook implements. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Rapid Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an sensational look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook implements, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The explore also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multitude of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of observe time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it plain and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of devices to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing instruments. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your photo or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their dearest social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Display with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, stationary the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation implements, replay trimming, and other adjustment instruments. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will show up if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook flipped out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has embarked ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to display, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch sides chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the contraptions and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Cracking News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful device for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping palm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things commence to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a puny number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Private AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh individual AI system called Jarvis using Facebook contraptions. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Swift Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an off the hook look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook implements, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The investigate also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a diversity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results demonstrate that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of see time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and produces “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it ordinary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of instruments to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing instruments. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your photo or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Display with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, immovable the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation devices, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment contraptions.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope spinned out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has commenced ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch roles chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to demonstrate, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the devices and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Shove Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for cracking news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh violating news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful implement for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging forearm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things begin to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely spinned out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Private AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook instruments. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Quick Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an off the hook look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook implements, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The investigate also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multiplicity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of observe time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it ordinary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of devices to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing devices. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your pic or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Trio for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their dearest social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's individual details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Display with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will comeback on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of playmates such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected playmates of the discrepancy, immobilized the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment instruments. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation contraptions, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope spinned out a snowman that will show up if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has began ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to display, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch sides chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the contraptions and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now show up as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful device for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a swinging mitt emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things embark to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Private AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh individual AI system called Jarvis using Facebook instruments. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Prompt Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an off the hook look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook instruments, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The investigate also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a diversity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of see time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the fattest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it elementary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger spinned out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of devices to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing instruments. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your photo or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their dearest social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your dearest social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's private details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
The Morning Social Media Marketing Talk Demonstrate with Michael Stelzner is taking a break for the holidays and will come back on Friday, January 6, 2017. Subscribe to future shows here.
More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected fucking partners of the discrepancy, immobilized the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation implements, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that emerges behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has embarked ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to display, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch sides chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the devices and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Cracking News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for cracking news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful contraption for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping palm emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things begin to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Individual AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook implements. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Prompt Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an off the hook look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh individual AI system using Facebook contraptions, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The probe also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multitude of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of witness time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the largest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media: Social Media Examiner
Group Movie Talk From Facebook Messenger: This Week in Social Media
Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.
To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's Fresh This Week
Facebook Messenger Rolls Out Group Movie Talk: The fresh Group Movie Talk feature in Facebook Messenger “makes it elementary and seamless to stay connected face-to-face.” With this fresh feature, users will be able to turn group talks into face-to-face conversations “no matter where [they] are.” iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to Messenger last week to their movies. Group Movie Talk on Facebook Messenger is rolling out now to all Android and iOS devices and the desktop version of Messenger globally.
Facebook Messenger flipped out a fresh Group Movie Talk feature on Android, iOS, and the web.
Instagram Adds Customizable Stickers to Stories: Instagram introduced “a set of contraptions to help you add context and creativity to your story: stickers, holiday joy and more.” Once users take a photo or movie on Instagram, a fresh sticker button will emerge alongside the text and drawing devices. With a tap, a selection of customizable stickers for the weather, current time, location, and the holidays pops up and can be added to your photo or movies. The fresh customizable stickers are available to all users as part of Instagram version Ten.Three for both iOS and Android.
Instagram adds stickers and text to Instagram Stories.
8th Annual Top Social Media Blog Contest Call for Nominations: Social Media Examiner is now accepting nominations from the public for their beloved social media blog of the year. Judges for this year's contest, Heidi Cohen, Marcus Sheridan, and Sonia Simone, will select the winning blogs based on the quality of content, frequency of posts, reader involvement, and ranking.
Nominate your beloved social media blog in Social Media Examiner's 8th Annual Top ten Social Media Blog Contest.
Twitter Phases Out Lead Generation Ads: Twitter is phasing out its lead generation ad format used by brands to request people's private details such as their names, Twitter treats, and email addresses. A company spokesperson confirms that Twitter intends “to concentrate its efforts on building and improving other spectacle offerings that will help [it] drive the best spectacle for advertisers” and will proceed “experimenting with the best ways to help advertisers effectively connect with consumers.” Twitter outlined a two-step phase-out process for lead generation cards in a message forum for developers. Brands will no longer be able to create lead generation ads, nor will they be able to create and edit lead generation cards after February 1, 2017. By March 1, 2017, “it will no longer be possible to view lead generation cards” at all.
Our Take on Top News This Week
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More News to Note
Facebook Introduces Live Audio: Facebook introduced “another way to go live on Facebook” with Live Audio. This fresh format permits publishers that “want to tell a story on Facebook with words and not movie” to go live with audio only. Live Audio also provides broadcasters with another option for “connecting with audiences in real time” from areas with low connectivity. Just like with Live Movie on Facebook, listeners can “detect live audio content in News Feed, ask questions and leave reactions in real time during the broadcast and lightly share with their friends.”
Facebook is presently testing Live Audio with a select number of fucking partners such as Big black cock World Service, LBC, Harper Collins, and authors Adam Grant and Britt Bennett. The network plans to make Live Audio “more broadly available to publishers and people” by earlier next year.
Facebook introduced a fresh way to go live on Facebook with Live Audio.
Twitter Fixes Reporting Error for Movie Ad Metrics: Business Insider reports that “a bug in a latest version of Twitter's Android app inflated movie advertising metrics by as much as 35%.” Twitter proactively informed affected playmates of the discrepancy, motionless the error, and issued refunds for overbilling on movie ad campaigns that ran inbetween November seven and December 12. “Given this was a technical error, not a policy or definition issue,” Twitter states that it's “certain that [the issue] has been resolved” and will proceed to monitor its systems for any future errors.
Facebook Live Updates Mentions App: Facebook Mentions app, which enables public figures like athletes, musicians, journalists, politicians, and others to lightly connect with their audience on Facebook, is adding several fresh live broadcasting features including live movie drafts and reminders, comment moderation instruments, replay trimming, and other adjustment devices. These fresh features are rolling out “in the coming weeks” and will be available to all Mentions users.
Facebook Mentions is adding several fresh Live broadcasting features such as drafts and reminders, comment moderation devices, replay trimming, and other adjustment implements.
Twitter and Periscope Roll Out Fresh Holiday-themed Stickers: Twitter introduced a fresh set of holiday-themed stickers for Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa, and Periscope flipped out a snowman that will emerge if the hashtags #wintersolstice, #snowman, or #winter are used during broadcasts. The seasonal stickers are available now to all Twitter and Periscope users.
Facebook Rolls Out Colored Backgrounds on Text Status Updates: Facebook spinned out a fresh feature that “lets users select a color that shows up behind their text status in place of the normally-white background.” There are several options for colors including some with “an Instagram logo-style color gradient” for a “more stylish and modern” look for your Facebook updates. TechCrunch reports that colored status backgrounds are “rolling out globally over the next few days.” Presently, only Android users will be able to create them, but all iOS, Android, and web users will be able to see them in the news feed.
Facebook encourages text statuses with fresh colored backgrounds https://t.co/HvzC5bB9q5 by @JoshConstine
Twitter Ranks Top Tweets Search Results by Relevance: Twitter has commenced ranking top tweet search results by relevance rather than in switch sides chronological order. Twitter has been working on this adjustment “over the last few months” and has run “several experiments” with ranking algorithms, layout, the right number of out-of-order tweets to display, and the order of relevance. Twitter discovered that “people who have experienced this fresh Search results page tend to not only engage more with the Search results but also Tweet more and spend more time on Twitter” and the platform will proceed running more “relevance-based experimentations and improvements… in the future.”
Moving Tweet search results from switch roles chronological order to relevance order: https://t.co/jN7QvygXl2
— Twitter Engineering (@TwitterEng) December Nineteen, 2016
Facebook Releases Guide for Page Moderation and Management: Facebook Business published a quick guide for page owners and admins that “includes tips… on how to report, block and prevent abusive activity, react and manage comments and moderate and post significant content.” In this resource, Facebook provides an overview of the devices and features presently available for page managers and offers advice on how to best manage your business page interactions and presence on Facebook.
Facebook Business published a guide with tips on how to report, block, and prevent abusive activity; react to and manage comments; and share significant content on your page.
Facebook Launches Messages From Facebook: Facebook launched a fresh marketing program called Messages from Facebook that invites people “to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.” These shareable messages now emerge as large, colorful cards at the top of the news feed and highlight a specific event or moment. This fresh feature gives people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events, detect joy and interesting cultural moments, and feast notable moments in history. TechCrunch reports that this fresh feature is “a brand and marketing initiative” for Facebook only, and at this time “advertisers cannot sponsor these messages.”
Facebook introduced a fresh marketing program to invite people to share and talk about events and moments that are happening in their communities and around the world.
Upcoming Social Media News Worth Following
Twitter Tests Thrust Notifications for Violating News: Adweek reports that “Twitter has been experimenting with thrust notifications for violating news events that bring users to related Moments.” Twitter has been testing this fresh cracking news alert feature for “months” with news events and entertainment updates.
Facebook Liquidates Nearby Friends and Tests Fresh Wave Feature: TechCrunch reports that “Facebook has liquidated the precise location-sharing feature from Nearby Friends,” which permitted select friends to temporarily or permanently see your exact location on a map. While a useful contraption for meeting up with one another, the feature has been substituted with “a list of people's proximities and neighborhood.” Facebook is presently testing the capability to see which friends are near you and tap a button to spontaneously arrange a meetup through messaging.
Facebook is also testing a fresh successor to the Facebook Poke within Nearby Friends that permits users “to send their friends a flapping mitt emoji to say hello and help them meet up.” TechCrunch reports that the “wave” is meant to give people “more ways to express themselves and help friends interact with one another in fresh joy and lightweight ways.”
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” https://t.co/mYRkbqUoWZ by @joshconstine
Vine Will Transition App to Pared-down Vine Camera: In late October, Vine announced plans to discontinue the app “over the coming months” and promised to notify users through the app when things begin to switch. This week, Vine collective its plans to transition the Vine app to a pared-down Vine Camera in January 2017. The Vine Camera app will permit users to proceed making six-second looping movies that they can either post directly to Twitter or save to their phones. Vine also announced that “in the coming days,” it will roll out “a way to make it effortless for your Vine followers to go after you on Twitter” with a fresh “Go after on Twitter” notification. In the meantime, users can now download and save their Vines through the app or the website and can proceed viewing them on the vine.co website.
Facebook Messenger Tests Group Calling on Desktop: Group calling was widely flipped out on the Messenger mobile app earlier this year. Facebook is now “working out the kinks to bring the feature to your home and office” by providing a petite number of desktop users the capability to test group audio calls in Messenger. TechCrunch reports that “those with access will now see a phone icon on their group talks that they can hit to instantly invite the members to join the call.”
Facebook Messenger strikes at Skype with desktop group voice calling https://t.co/IOMMq4Ir4H
Facebook Previews Private AI System: In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted a fresh private AI system called Jarvis using Facebook contraptions. In a Facebook Note, the Facebook founder “explains what [he] built and what [he] learned along the way” and offers a peek into how natural language prompts, vision and facial recognition, and other Facebook technology like Messenger were integrated into this project. An article in Rapid Company reports that AI technology is “essential to Facebook's future” and provides an sensational look at the development, capabilities, and future of Jarvis.
In a series of movie posts on his public page, Mark Zuckerberg debuted Jarvis, a fresh private AI system using Facebook instruments, natural language prompts, and facial recognition.
Some Interesting Studies to Note:
Nielsen Digital Ad Ratings U.S. Benchmarks 2Q 2016: According to a fresh Q2 two thousand sixteen report from Nielsen, digital ad campaigns reached their intended audiences 60% of the time on both mobile and desktop. The examine also indicates that it's “very unlikely” that campaigns will ever achieve 100% on-target percentage due to consumer behaviors such as misrepresenting age or gender online, sharing digital devices among family and friends, and limitations with cookie-based targeting. The findings also suggest that ads seen on desktops perform better for broadly targeted campaigns and reaching masculine audiences. Meantime, mobile ads are stronger when it comes to reaching narrower targets and female audiences. The report also examines reach and impressions by industry and age groups.
#YouTubeRewind 2016: YouTube collective its annual year-end rankings for the top movies, music movies, and ads collective on its platform in 2016. The top ten movie rankings were based on a multiplicity of factors such as “time spent watching, sharing, commenting, liking and more.” The platform also collective the two thousand sixteen Year-End YouTube Ads Leaderboard, its “annual look at the most observed and engaging ads of the year globally.” The results showcase that “mobile proved to be a key platform for [ad] viewers again this year. In fact, across the five Super Cup ads on [YouTube's] Year-End Leaderboard, 81% of witness time came from mobile devices, with over two hundred five million combined mobile views.”
USC Annenberg Relevance Report: The USC Center for Public Relations released a fresh report in partnership with Humana, Meltwater, and Golin on the “topics and trends that will influence society, business and communications in the coming year.” The report features a collection of essays from “communication leaders and academic experts on the issues, ideas and innovations that will form the communications industry in 2017.” The report covers “a broad range of topics grouped into the following five categories: media, communications, technology, brand and people.”
The Black Sheep: UK-based social media marketing agency Social Chain released a fresh white paper that examines how big consumer brands are presently using social media to connect with their customers. This fresh report concentrates on six brands in two major retail sectors during Black Friday, one of “the thickest retail events of the year,” and supplies “actionable ways” marketers can improve engagement and build brand awareness using social media.
What do you think of the Group Movie Talk feature on Messenger? Have you attempted Instagram stickers? Please share your comments below.
Group Movie Talk from Facebook Messenger and other social media news for Dec. 24, 2016.