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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
Twitter Automatically Loops Short Videos: As the Vine app officially shut down and became Vine Camera earlier this week, Twitter announced that it will now "automatically loop all videos shorter than 6.5-seconds" on its timeline. Twitter also confirmed that this capability will extend beyond videos clips posted from Vine Camera and will apply to

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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 Ability to Broadcast Live From Desktop: Facebook shared several new tools and improvements that "give publishers more control, customization, and flexibility over their broadcasts." These updates include the ability to go live on a Facebook page through a web browser from a desktop, video metrics for public videos for profiles with

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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 Extends Automated Video Captioning Tools to Pages: Facebook released an automated captioning tool for video ads last year. Over the past few months, Facebook has been gradually rolling out access to this feature to videos published to Facebook pages. This free tool is powered entirely by voice recognition software and the video captions are

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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
Periscope Rolls Out Support for Live 360 Video: Periscope launched its own Live 360 video experience this week. The new Live 360 broadcasts are marked with a badge and enable viewers to change their point of view "by moving [their] phone or tapping and scrolling around the screen - all while watching live." Although anyone on Twitter or Periscope can

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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 Messenger Rolls Out Group Video Chat: The new Group Video Chat feature in Facebook Messenger "makes it simple and seamless to stay connected face-to-face." With this new feature, users will be able to turn group chats into face-to-face conversations "no matter where [they] are." iOS users can also add all of the 3D masks that were added to

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