It’s been a busy week for Social Media platform updates, the biggest flurry of activity being down at Twitter Towers as they look to tweak the platform to re-stimulate growth in the user base.
Headlines
- Twitter’s new algorithmic timeline and what it means for brands, as well as a look at their premium video placement ‘first view’
- LinkedIn closes it’s ad network, refocusing efforts on native content
- Instagram rolls out video view counts
- Facebook adds in captioning overlays to video
Insights
- What YouTube’s acquisition of BandPage means for convergence
- Short form content drives higher engagement according to this WARC report
- How the web is being redesigned for mobile with AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages), a Google backed open source project
Cool
- Kickstarter celebrates passing 100,000 successfully funded projects with 100 facts
- Use our phone to help sense earthquakes. Crowdsourcing on a seismic scale
- Asics scoops up Runkeeper to keep pace with rivals
Deep Reads
- Why the Internet of Things hasn’t yet blown up
- Ad tech is looking to examine the ROI of the emoji
- How Facebook is improving Instant Articles to further win over publishers
