Social Media Saturday
This week, Facebook joined the S&P 500 while founder Mark Zuckerberg personally made more shares in the company available for purchase, Google and Facebook battle it out with different year-end roundup services for their users, Twitter will let Vine users get vanity URLs, and it turned out that Instagram's new ads are a success.
A lot happened this week in social media: Even if Twitter's IPO ends up flopping, the sensational book describing the invention of the social media servicemay get a movie deal. Meanwhile, Instagram begins annoying its users with advertising and Facebook just isn't cool anymore.
Social Media Saturday: This week in social media was relatively quiet, except for one company: Facebook stole the show. Along with finally converting its entire site to secure HTTP, the company also rolled out embedded posts, moved some Facebook Home features to its main app, and may start rolling out 15-second ads.
This week in social media, Facebook surprised investors with great returns and growing mobile revenue, Pinterest announced you can opt out of being tracked, and hackers attacked Instagram users with smoothies. Yes, really.
This week in social media Tumblr learned about a huge vulnerability that it subsequently fixed. But it also tried to fix NSFW content, and stirred up a bit of a fuss. Twitter also added a NSFW filter, but that was less controversial.
Social Media Saturday: This week in social media was all about including everyone in the most up to date versions of various social networking platforms.
This week in social media was all about including everyone in the most up to date versions of various social networking platforms.
It's been a pretty big week for social media: as the turmoil in Egypt reminded us of the importance of instant user-generated news, Twitter added instant translation for non-Arabic speakers to better understand what's happening in that part of the world. Meanwhile, Instagram and Vine are at it again, both adding features and/or bug fixes in an increasing social video arms race.
It's been a pretty exciting week for social media, Facebook in particular. A day after adding 15-second videos to its Instagram photo sharing service, Facebook admitted that a bug in its system accidentally exposed 6 million users' personal information. Meanwhile, Google Plus might be adding Google Mine, a service to share your stuff.
It's been a busy week in social media, with new ways to display what you've been doing on Twitter with #FollowMe and Facebook revealing how law enforcement has tried to follow what you're doing by disclosing information requests on its users from local and federal law enforcement. Also this week, Facebook opened a server near the Arctic Circle and is ditching sponsored ads, Twitter started testing how to give users more use of analytics, and Foursquare maps your life.
