The Realtime Report

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Calling itself “the social news and entertainment company,” BuzzFeed demonstrated last month that whatever the publisher’s formula may be, it’s working. Creating shareable content: different feed options on BuzzFeed’s homepage. What’s behind this record growth?

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JUNE 22, 2020

But helping people identify nefarious information online might be possible through inexpensive digital-media literacy outreach, according to a Princeton University-led study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Image by S. Hermann & F. Richter from Pixabay. ET in PNAS.

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APRIL 28, 2014

Facebook launches a newswire so it can help the media — while it competes with them - the FB Newswire is designed to give media outlets and journalists a realtime feed of news-worthy content; the service debuted on Thursday and is partially powered by social news verification service Storyful (GigaOM).

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MARCH 31, 2014

Facebook takes another crack at read-it-later with “Save” button – Facebook is currently testing a new feature; the read-it-later ‘Save’ button on articles in the web News Feed allows users to create a section of bookmarked sites on their profile (TechCrunch). Any social media updates that we missed?

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DECEMBER 16, 2013

Facebook puts its web feed in motion with auto-playing videos – shortly after rolling out auto-playing videos to mobile users, they’ve now arrived on Facebook.com (TechCrunch). Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: Facebook.

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JULY 21, 2014

Facebook launches “Out-App Purchase” ads – Facebook is now letting developers sell Facebook desktop game virtual goods straight from ads in the News Feed or sidebar (TechCrunch).

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MARCH 3, 2014

How Facebook’s News Feed now lets brands ride the coattails of other brands – users will now begin seeing posts about Facebook pages they follow, even if those posts are made by pages (or brands) they do not follow; marketers that properly tag other pages now have the opportunity to receive extra visibility (Marketing Land).

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