Yesterday, Facebook’s F8 Conference yielded big news for the platform. Throw in Instagram’s new app for collaging and Twitter’s new partnership with FourSquare, and you’ve got one heck of a week for social media news! Read all about it in this week’s #MMSocialReport!
1. Facebook’s New Homegrown Messenger Apps Focus on Selfies, Sound, and Shaking
by @jonrussell via @techcrunch
TechCrunch walks you through one of the biggest announcements from the F8 Conference — the third-party apps that will now be integrated with Facebook Messenger. The changes are already the subject of much controversy and criticism.
2. I Tried Instagram Automation (So You Don’t Have To)
by @EvanLePage via @Hootsuite
This excellent read is the result of one blogger venturing where you’ve been too afraid to go. Using different popular bots to gain followers on Instagram was truly an experience for the author who ended with, “Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go unfollow 5,000 Instagram accounts.” I mean, we hate to say “I told you so…”
3. Twitter Teams With Foursquare to Let You Get Specific in Tagging Locations
by @PatrickKulp via @mashabletech
Twitter is teaming up with Foursquare to allow geo-tags in tweets for specific businesses, landmarks, and buildings. If you’re a Swarm user like all of us on the MM team, this could mean BIG changes!
4. Layout From Instagram for iOS
via @instagram
Say goodbye to Picstitch! Instagram has launched its own collage maker for iOS this week, and it is classy and laid out very well, pun fully intended. It’s available for free from the App Store.
5. Facebook Has Officially Declared it Wants to Own Every Single Thing You Do on the Internet
by @ow via @TheNextWeb
Not everyone was thrilled with the news from the F8 Conference this week. This opinion piece voices some solid qualms about what will happen when you rarely, if ever, need to leave Facebook to do things on the Internet. What do you think? Let us know in the comments.
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