As smartphone use increases across the world, social media is becoming more intelligent. Apps are learning what we like (whether you like it or not) and are using this information to let us communicate – and shop – with just one touch. Meanwhile, the information our phones learn about us is also surprisingly useful for solving real world problems, too (like traffic!).
Yesterday, Facebook’s F8 Conference yielded big news for the platform. Throw in Instagram’s new app for collaging and Twitter’s new partnership with FourSquare, and you’ve got one heck of a week for social media news! Read all about it in this week’s #MMSocialReport!
Twitter’s new TV Timelines, changes to Swarm, how the Internet celebrated #InternationalWomensDay, and some annoying social media habits you should avoid if you’re heading to #SXSW – all this and more in this week’s #MMSocialReport!
As professional social media fanatics, we at Metter Media spend a LOT of time online. Because of that, it should come as no surprise we have plenty of ideas that could make our (and everyone else’s) experiences better on social networking.
Sometimes that article about the new iPhone could really use a Macarena baby GIF — that Facebook won’t allow. Or you get a Twitter notification on your phone that you can’t read because someone sharing the account already opened it and it disappeared before your very eyes. And it’s beyond frustrating.
In the midst of scheduling posts, sharing cat pictures, and lightheartedly making fun of each other, the MM team came up with our top social media gripes that we’d love to see solutions to — soon.