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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Facebook Rolls Out Facebook Stories and Other Snapchat-like Camera Features Globally: Facebook rolled out a new in-app camera for iOS and Android that's "packed with dozens of effects like masks, frames and interactive filters that you can apply to your photos and videos." These include dynamic objects, artistic filters, and branded masks for some

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Facebook Expands Ability to Broadcast Live from Desktops and Laptops to All Users: Facebook announced that everyone around the world can now "broadcast live video to Facebook from their desktop or laptop computers."

Facebook also added a new Live feature that "makes it easy to use streaming software or external hardware when going live from a

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Facebook Testing Video Insights for Personal Profiles: This week, Social Media Examiner staff noted that Facebook appears to be testing video metrics for personal profile users. The video metrics include insights on engagement, views, minutes viewed, and overall performance for the past 7, 30, and 60 days. To learn more about this possible new

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Facebook Globally Launches Messenger Day: Facebook launched Messenger Day, a new way to share photos and videos "as they happen" in the stand-alone Messenger app. Like with Snapchat Stories and Instagram Stories, Messenger Day allows users to customize their photos and videos with thousands of frames, effects, and stickers and each post disappears

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Welcome to our weekly edition of what's hot in social media news.

To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention.
What's New This Week
Facebook Algorithm Ranks Reactions Higher Than Likes: Facebook announced that reactions "will [now] affect post ranking slightly more than Likes" in the news feed algorithm because it has found reactions to be "an even stronger signal" when it comes to indicating what content users would like to see. However, Facebook clarifies that all reactions

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