1. Social Media Trends/Updates
June 2012
Covered only Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin & Google+
Note: highlighted only important updates
2. Twitter Bird Gets a Makeover !
Twitter’s trademark “little blue bird” just got a
makeover.
All Twitter official buttons will be automatically
updated.
If anybody using any previous Twitter bird logo
on their website or any other areas update that
icon with the new revamped logo.
Image Courtesy: http://goo.gl/p2OtE
3. Facebook update: FBML apps won’t work!
FBML apps are set to stop working as part of the removal of
Facebook Markup Language (FBML). Facebook also
announced that it will remove the live stream plugin from the
platform in favour of the comments box.
Some old page tab applications and very early canvas games
that have not been migrated to the new format will have
“FBML Removal” migration enabled.
It will be possible for developers to disable the migration and
re-enable FBML until July 5, when FBML will be removed
completely.
The social network began recommending iFrames over
FBML. Image Courtesy: http://goo.gl/nNqu5
Beginning in March 2011, page admins were no longer be
able to install new FMBL apps.
4. Facebook Launch New App Center!
Facebook launched App Center, a modified
dashboard that aims to improve app discovery
More than 600+ social apps currently being added on
this dashboard
Aps categorized into three parts. All, Web, and
Mobile section.
Image Courtesy: http://goo.gl/sLPi7
5. Facebook Twitter Integration!
“The updated Twitter for Facebook integration
now includes usernames, URL, hashtags, photos
@mention and more are cross-posted to
Facebook.
To implement this functionality you'll have to edit
the settings in your twitter profile section and
connect with Facebook and agree to its routine
permission prompt.
After that you'll see all of your tweets appear as
statuses in Facebook.
6. Facebook Wordpress Integration
This integration will helps users to
Share their blog content directly from
Wordpress to their Facebook timeline
or pages.
Now users can perform following activities through
this new plugin help
- Social Publishing
- Mentions Image Courtesy: http://goo.gl/22i3o
- tagging friends
With the help of this plugin user can add
some other widgets like
- live activity feed
- Recommendations
- customizable like, subscribe
- send button and a comments box.
How to install
Follow the instructions from
Socialmediaexaminer.com blog for complete
guide how to setup new wordpress facebook
plugin
7. New Twitter tailored trends!
Twitter Just Made Trends More Relevant
Twitter is rolling out “tailored trends” feature
which help users see more relevant topics in their
Discover tab and top trends list.
Tailor trends based on your location and the
people you follow.
The location is default according to your twitter
setting, so if you want to find out what trending in
US or UK then just change your location.
8. Twitter’s Expanded Tweets feature!
Twitter new “expended tweets” feature allowing users to
see more interactive content for instance news stories,
video galleries and audio clips
Interactive experiences such as content previews, view
images and play videos inside tweets from certain
publishers.
Partner websites listed in the announcement were “The
New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Der
Spiegel Online, WWE, Buzzfeed, TMZ, BET’s 106 & Park,
Lifetime, Dailymotion.
Image courtesy: http://goo.gl/SQvkO
9. Facebook launches portal page to help
users follow Olympic Games and
athletes!
Facebook has launched the Explore London 2012 page in
collaboration with the London 2012 Olympics to help users
find and Like pages related to the games.
the dashboard includes:-
- Links to the main Olympics pages
- Athletes
- National teams and sports. .
Now people can explore their favourite athletics, favourite
team and sports and stay updates on latest Olympic news.
Image Courtesy: Facebook.com
10. Facebook acquires facial recognition company
Face.com
Face.com face recognition aps identify and tag people in real time.
According to TechCrunch reports that the acquisition price was
around $100 million.
Facebook latest mobile camera app doesn’t include this feature,
maybe Facebook revamp something after this acquisition. Image Courtesy: face.com
11. Facebook gives Like button
functionality to third-party mobile
and web app buttons
Facebook recently announced that Mobile and web
app developers can now build custom buttons that
function similarly to Facebook’s traditional Like
button.
For example, Instagram and Foursquare use hearts in
their mobile apps. Now instead of those actions being
seen within the app only, they can be published to
Facebook without any additional steps. Further, when
a user Likes their friend’s photo or story using the
new Like action, the friend will receive a Facebook Image Courtesy: insidefacebook.com
notification about it.
12. Facebook Allows Editing Comments!
Now, Facebook allows you to directly edit your comment
with an option right there simply click small pencil sign
right side of your comment section. It gives you an option
to delete or edit your comment directly.
You can also see your editing history for a comment
13. Facebook privacy issue:
Facebook hide users’ email
addresses, favouring its own
Email.
Recently Facebook has set up its email
address _@facebook.com necessary for every
profile without any intimation. And hide
users third parties email address. May be the
reason behind it to promote its own
messaging feature.
How to fix it Image Courtesy: Facebook.com
Here's how to easily fix the problem.
Click "About" on your profile and scroll
down to your email address. Click "Edit" to
change them.
Click on the circle next to your Facebook
email address and change its setting to
"Hidden From Timeline".
Click on the circle next to your other email
addresses and change their settings to
"Shown On Timeline".
Click the Save button at the bottom of the
Edit popup
14. Facebook Username changing
facility!
Admins can easily change their page username once
again without having to submit a username change
request to Facebook.
Now You don’t need to fill up username changing
contact form.
Simply follow the steps to do the changes: Edit Page
–> Update Info –> Basic Information –> Change
Username.
Image Courtesy: insidefacebook.com
15. Google New Event Feature !
Google+ has a new feature: support for
creating and managing events.
The most interesting feature is a "party
mode“ this feature automatically brings
together all the photos taken by the
guests.
"Once you've enabled Party Mode on
your mobile device, all of your new
photos get added to the event in real-
time. And as more guests turn on Party
Mode, more pictures will instantly
appear to fellow invitees.
Google+ Events also integrates with
Google Calendar
16. Facebook ‘Voice’ Feature!
Recently Facebook added Voice link, feature for
admins that make it clear positing as a user or the
behalf of brand pages.
It provides the ability to switch from individual to
brand page and brand page to individual users,
just only simple click.
The new feature appears as a blue horizontal bar
across the top of the page.
It could be helpful for page owners avoid mistakes
to post different behalf.
17. Twitter Update Won’t Post on LinkedIn !
Linkedin announced that Twitter would no longer be
partnering with us to cync updates from one site to the
other.
LinkedIn and Twitter have worked together since 2009 to
enable the sharing of professional conversations on both Img courtesy: http://goo.gl/OJpzE
platforms.
What changes can I expect to see on
LinkedIn?
If you had previously synced your LinkedIn and Twitter
accounts, and selected the option to share Tweets on
LinkedIn, those Tweets generated from Twitter will no
longer appear on LinkedIn. There will be no other
changes to your LinkedIn experience.
