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Social Media News Ticker: Twitter Nears Deal With Stripe, Spotify Drops Free Listening Time Limit

The Realtime Report

Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Spotify: Facebook’s new Trending section.

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ICYMI – Meerkat, Flipboard, Curator, Scrapbook

Danny WhatMough

Meerkat responds to Periscope threat with new features. Flipboard launches magazines for groups. Twitter is starting to test autoplay videos for some users. Twitter launches Curator for news publishers. Want this in your inbox each week? Subscribe here.

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Facebook Reader a welcome feature

Sherrilynne Starkie

But little by little Twitter and Facebook have taken over the reader duties for me. I like that my online communities help surface the content that is most relevant to me and it seems to keep me up to date with news and events. Do you think that the Facebook Reader will provide you the news and information you need?

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Miss My Google Reader Updates? Here Are 4 Ways You Can Still Get Relevant Tech News

Stay N' Alive

If you're an avid Google Reader user like me, you are well aware of the recent changes Google Reader made to their interface, removing the ability to share news with friends, and as a result, killing the means for over 1,500 of you to receive relevant tech news updates from me. You don't even need a Twitter account.

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How Companies Like Bored Panda, REI, and Vox Are Growing Their Organic Reach on Social Media

Buffer Social

For example, in the first half of 2018 alone, Facebook reported five major changes to the News Feed (and there are probably many more small tweaks that were not reported). The Facebook algorithm consists of four key components that organize the content people see on their News Feed: inventory, signals, predictions, and relevancy score.

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Xydo Now Tracking Over 1 Million People's Shares on Twitter

Stay N' Alive

A few weeks back, Eric Roach, Xydo.com 's co-founder and CEO, had lunch with me to show me a new, Digg-like network for sharing articles in a modern way. The service attempts to track retweets and shares across social networks to identify, automatically, what the top news of the day is. Xydo comes with a twist though.

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Pros and Cons of Facebook’s Paper App

The Social Media Incubator

Facebook Paper’s purpose is to give its users the opportunity to see important updates from their Facebook timelines (also get notifications and messages), to the latest in news headlines, to funny stories and cute animal pictures. Early on, however, there are plenty of positives and negatives to the new app.

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