As per usual, we’re letting you know what’s new on the most popular social media platforms. We like doing these roundups because they force us to also learn the latestest and greatest on these platforms.
Without further, ado, here is what’s cooking at….
Longer Video: The photo-sharing social media site now allows videos up to one minute long. The previous limit was 15 seconds, which is still longer than 10 seconds on Snapchat and 6 seconds on Twitter. Video is BIG and many social media sites are capitalizing on it. The roll out is ongoing so, don’t get too excited yet as all account do not yet have the feature.
Like Count Starts at 4: The struggle to get to 11 likes before Instagram starts showing the number of likes versus the handles of the accounts that liked you image is over. Instagram now starts counting at 4. This roll out is also ongoing. Some of our images have it on one account and another may not. And as The NextWeb notes,the change cleans up the layout and makes “it a nanosecond faster to scroll through your feed without lines of long usernames.”
Multi-Clip Video: Now this is a game changer for editors. You can now join multiple clips together and skip the steps of exporting clips to an external editor, putting a video together there then uploading it on the site. This option will only be available on the iOS version of the app and is rolling out in an update this week.
Facebook is really all about video. Reports indicate that it will not percolate Live videos to the top of people’s newstreams, prioritizing them over all other content.
Android Users Get Live Video: Live Video on Facebook was first rolled out to users using iOS and recently, it announced that it will rollout to Android as well now.
Personalized Video Filters on Live Video: One of our editors was shooting a Facebook Live video and realized that she has the option to be seen through different image filters. Soon you will be able to doodle on your image too.
Live for Facebook Groups and Events: Now you can do Live videos in Facebook Groups and Events, not just on Pages and Personal accounts anymore, FB announced on April 6.
Live Replay Comments: During replays of Live videos, the comments that scrolled while Live also shows up when they were made.
Live World Map: This is reminiscent to Periscope, but now you can determine all the places in the FB world where people are shooting live video.
Twitter won the bid to stream Thursday night NFL games for FREE on their service, beating out competitors like Verizon, Netflix and others.
New Board: It also diversified its board by adding new faces, including one woman, Martha Lane Fox.
SnapChat
New Chat : The instant sharing app introduced Chat 2.0. Now, you can start by sending a few chats, and when your friend shows up, start talking or video chatting instantly with one tap.
Curated Feed: It also will being Auto-Advance Start feed, the next one begins automatically — simply swipe to skip ahead, or pull down to exit!
