Social news
Over the last 12 months the use of social networks worldwide has increased by 21%. This is evidenced by report data Hootsuite and We Are Social, devoted to current digital trends.
The founder and head of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has no plans to participate in elections for for President of the United States. This he said in an interview with Buzzfeed News.
Instagram announced that the live streaming feature in Instagram Stories became available for Russian users.
Facebook search for a way to reduce the impact of fake news in that case, when they are already spread among users. About it told the Vice-President Adam Mosseri during the thematic debate that was held at the University of California, Berkeley.
In the fourth quarter of 2016, global clickthrough rate on Facebook increased by 42% in the annual comparison. About this state Nanigans in date report.
Facebook has paid Russian programmer Andrey Leonov, a record fee for hacking – $40 thousand, state Fortune.
Facebook will build new data center in the Odense city of Danish. Center will become the third data center of the company outside the United States. Two other centres were opened in Sweden and Ireland.
Pinterest continues to improve their product advertising. The latest innovation in this field was adding groups in the ad campaigns.
Social network for professionals LinkedIn has launched a new website design. This step was designed to bring the desktop version of the service in accordance with mobile. The company also hope to encourage users to spend more time on the platform.
Team social network OKru announced that will not impose a fee for sending the GIF images. Users will be able to send them messages for free and those who bought access to sending GIF in the test period spent in local currency will be returned.