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Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter: Updates on social networks that you missed
Facebook began to support 360-degree photos in the mobile application, polls appeared on Instagram Stories, YouTube introduced restrictions on adding external links at the end of the video, and now the message is not in 140 characters, but in 280. What other updates appeared on social networks? The greenhouse made a brief review.
1. Temporary concealment of the posts of friends and communities. Facebook tests a new function called Snooze. Thanks to it, you can hide the posts of pages that annoy you. Such a button is below the “Hide publication” function, it allows you to not show publications, but to remain friends.
2. Automatic download of Wi-Fi video. The Instant Videos function (“instant videos”) will allow users to watch videos on a mobile phone without spending mobile traffic. The video will be loaded and cached in the background when using Wi-Fi. Such "instant" will be marked by the lightning icon.
3. Support for 360-degree photos in a mobile application. You need to open the Facebook application and press the “Photo 360” button at the top of the news feed. The function is available for both iOS and Android.
4. Blocking of advertising pages that once placed fake news. In 2017, Facebook began to actively fight false news, adjustments were made to the rules for placing advertisements. The topic became especially relevant after the US presidential election, which took place in the fall of 2016.
1. Stories can be divided on Facebook. Popular Instagram Stories can now be sent to a similar section of Facebook Stories. To activate the function in history settings, you need to put a check from the corresponding section.
2. Polls in the section of history. Now in Stories you can ask friends and monitor the result. To activate the function, you need to update Instagram.
3. In the gallery you can publish photos of portrait and album format. Previously, only square photos could be posted in the gallery, now there is no such restriction.
1. The volume of tweets doubled. Previously, only 140 characters could be accommodated in the message, and now 280. So far, the function is in testing mode and is available to some users.
2. The recommendation function "Popular Articles". Using this function, users will see the materials that their friends liked. You can also see popular articles for a particular region. To see this section, you need to go to the "Search" section.
3. The publication of several tweets at the same time. The tweetstorm function will allow you to combine several tweets. You can respond to other people's tweets or create a separate message branch. The application will automatically divide the text into parts and publish them in the form of a bound chain.
4. Expanded search opportunities. An effective tool for finding information. To find the right comment, you need to use the ADVANCED Search section. Tweets can be sought by a specific phrase, keywords, geolocation, hashtags, date and even “mood” of Tweit.
YouTube
1. There were restrictions to add external URLs in the video. Links appear at the end of the video in the form of cards and help to attract more traffic to any site. Now not all accounts can post links.
Firstly, you must be a participant in the YouTube affiliate program. Secondly, the total number of public views of your channel should be more than 10 thousand.
2. Imessage in YouTube. Google updated the YouTube application and added a mini-application for Imessage to it. With it, you can look for a video and share recently watched videos without leaving the messenger.
3. You can listen to the musical path from the video with a folded program.
4. Redizin. The interface has been updated. In the decstable version, you can now choose a dark theme of design.
5. Adaptation of vertical and square videos to the size of the screen. The function is available for the mobile version. The video player will change the shape and ratio of the parties depending on the type of content played. In the mobile version, now you can slow down or speed up the video.
Based on materials from the article on Search Engine Journal .