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Social Media Roundup is a weekly summary of information about all your favorite websites and apps used for social media. Published on Sunday, "Social Media Roundup" will help you stay abad of all the important news on social media you need to know.

Facebook

Storytelling interface for the news feed being tested

Facebook is testing a Stories user interface for News Feed in which you press or drag each message to display the next one, in the same way as it works on Instagram Stories and Snapchat Stories. The engineer Jane Manchun Wong discovered this user interface and she created a GIF showing how it works:

Facebook is testing to turn the news feed into a news feed pic.twitter.com/83H7VWcgmD

– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 15, 2019

This user interface is currently being tested in a beta version of Facebook for Android.

Currently, Facebook is placing Stories articles at the top of mobile versions of Facebook and Instagram. And tapping the stories basically plays a slideshow created by the user.

"We do not test that publicly," said a spokesman for Facebook via The Verge.

AI Voice Assistant under development

Facebook has confirmed with The Verge that he builds a digital voice badistant – which could be used for his Portal and Oculus devices after a report on CNBC's next product. The voice badistant works similarly to Apple Siri and the Google Assistant.

"We are working on the development of voice and AI technologies that can work in our AR / VR family. [augmented reality/virtual reality] products, including Portal, Oculus and future products, "said a spokesman for Facebook via The Verge. & nbsp;

Ira Snyder, Facebook director for AR / VR and Facebook badistant, will oversee the development of the digital badistant with a team in Redmond, Washington.

1.5 million unintentionally downloaded email addresses are now deleted

Facebook's reputation took another hit after discovering that the company had "unintentionally" downloaded the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their permission after signing up for new accounts since May. 2016. The contacts have not been shared and it is being deleted.

"We have solved the underlying problem and warn people whose contacts have been imported.Users can also view and manage the contacts that they share with Facebook in their settings," said a Facebook spokesman . via NBC next to a Business Insider Report.

The reason Facebook implemented this system was that it included a step in checking the account where users had the option of confirming their email address and importing their contacts to see which of their contacts were using Facebook to add them as a friend. . And it has also been used to improve advertisements.

Facebook watch design format

Facebook has decided to remove the design of Facebook Watch pages so that all video pages use the standard format of the Facebook page. And that basically makes all video creators equal on Facebook in terms of designing Pages.

The creators of videos on Facebook have been informed of the changes recently. As a result, their pages will go back to the original design of the Facebook page. The commentator of the social media industry, Matt Navarra, at the origin discovered the changes in February.

"We can confirm that we are merging the View page and the video page template on Facebook; we believe that this change will help simplify the publication process for our partners ", said a spokesman for Facebook via Digiday.

Dark mode on Messenger

The dark mode feature of the Facebook Messenger application is now deployed globally for all users on iOS and Android. Dark mode can be activated from the Application Settings section. The dark mode puts the cat's aesthetic look from white to black and offers a lower brightness while maintaining contrast. And it reduces the glare of your device when you use it in low light conditions.

Instagram

Hidden test as leaders

Instagram tests a user interface where the number of "likes" publications are hidden. As tests have shown that the number of people likes could affect mental health, social media companies have tested interfaces hiding the number of subscribers and the number of likes of users.

The user who publishes the image will always be able to see the number of mentions I like that a publication receives, other users will not be able to see the exact number. Jane Manchun Wong also found this feature unpublished in a beta version of Instagram:

Instagram is trying to hide like a number of spectators,

as stated in the application: "We want your subscribers to focus on what you share, not on the number of mentions of your posts" pic.twitter.com/MN7woHowVN

– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 18, 2019

"We want your subscribers to focus on what you share, not on the number of mentions of your posts. During this test, only the person who shares a message sees the total number of "likes," says Instagram in a pop-up message about the feature test.

Millions of unencrypted Instagram pbadwords have been exposed

Last week, a Forbes cybersecurity contributor Davey Winder reported that Instagram has leaked pbadword insecurity issues. Winder therefore recommends users to change their pbadwords.

What happened? To sum up, Facebook admitted that some user pbadwords were stored in plain text, which included millions of Instagram users. Facebook had confirmed this information in an updated statement.

"Since the publication of this article, we have discovered additional Instagram pbadword logs stored in a readable format.We now estimate that this problem has affected millions of Instagram users." We will notify these users as we did the others. "Our investigation determined that these stored pbadwords had not been misused or misused internally)," The Vice President of Engineering, Safety and Security Facebook's privacy protection on Facebook, Pedro Canahuati, said in the updated release.

Pinterest

Shares flock to the stock market

Pinterest-based social network became public last week and its stock price soared the first trading day. The stock price closed at over $ 24 – representing an increase of nearly 30% over the $ 19 offer price. As part of its IPO, Pinterest has raised more than $ 1.4 billion and has a stock market valuation of more than $ 15 billion.

In its prospectus, Pinterest points out that it is in the "early stages" of implementing an advertising strategy that aligns users and brands. What sets Pinterest apart from other social media platforms is that its users tend to embrace brand advertising instead of actively trying to avoid it. & Nbsp;Some of the most popular categories on Pinterest include home decoration and fashion.

However, Pinterest is not yet profitable. Pinterest recorded a net loss of $ 63 million on revenue of $ 756 million.

Twitter

Create a healthier service

Twitter recently provided an update about how it reduces abuse, spam and other malicious content. One of the major changes made by Twitter is that the tweets were only badyzed if abuses had been reported in the past. They are now taking a more proactive approach by highlighting the abusive content that teams can access. Here are some of the weak points that Twitter's Vice President, Donald Hicks, and Senior Director, Product Management, Twitter Health, David Gasca published on the changes:

• 38% of the abusive content imposed is proactively presented to our teams for review rather than relying on Twitter reports.

• 16% fewer reports of abuse after an interaction from an account that the reporter does not follow.

• 100,000 accounts suspended for creating new accounts after a suspension in January-March 2019 – an increase of 45% over the same period last year.

• 60% faster response to call requests with our new call process built into the app.

• Three times more abusive accounts suspended within 24 hours of being reported compared to the same period last year.

• 2.5 times more private information removed with a new, simpler reporting process.

Highly hired

Twitter has recruited the team behind the Highly sharing app. According to TechCrunch, this agreement was considered an "acquisition" – which meant that Twitter was interested in integrating staff rather than buying and integrating& nbsp; his products.

Highly's content sharing tool includes a browser plugin and an iOS application. The tool allowed users to highlight quotes from articles and share them quickly via email and on social networks. Highly will close the Slack and iOS app on April 26, but will continue to archive the strong points of the readers. And the browser plugin for Chrome, Safari and Firefox will still be available.

Vimeo

Acquisition of Magisto

Vimeo announced the acquisition of Magisto video editing service. According to several sources, the deal would have a value of about $ 200 million.

Magisto would have more than 100 million users and resort to artificial intelligence to speed up the video editing process. In the future, Vimeo will use Magisto to create new short video creation offerings.

"Social media has created an insatiable demand for videos – the public today expects high-quality video content of any size or budget. But we found that most small businesses do not have the tools, resources and expertise to meet this increased demand, "said Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo, in a statement. "Magisto's proprietary technology enables advanced mobile applications and AI-based editing tools, which, combined with Vimeo's unmatched scale and creative community, will allow more people tell fascinating stories by video. "

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Social Media Roundup is a weekly summary of information about all your favorite websites and apps used for social media. Published on Sunday, "Social Media Roundup" will help you stay abad of all the important news on social media you need to know.

Facebook

Storytelling interface for the news feed being tested

Facebook is testing a Stories user interface for News Feed in which you press or drag each message to display the next one, in the same way as it works on Instagram Stories and Snapchat Stories. The engineer Jane Manchun Wong discovered this user interface and she created a GIF showing how it works:

Facebook is testing to turn the news feed into a news feed pic.twitter.com/83H7VWcgmD

– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 15, 2019

This user interface is currently being tested in a beta version of Facebook for Android.

Currently, Facebook is placing Stories articles at the top of mobile versions of Facebook and Instagram. And tapping the stories basically plays a slideshow created by the user.

"We do not test that publicly," said a spokesman for Facebook via The Verge.

AI Voice Assistant under development

Facebook has confirmed with The Verge that he builds a digital voice badistant – which could be used for his Portal and Oculus devices after a report on CNBC's next product. The voice badistant would work the same way as Apple Siri and Google Assistant.

"We are working on the development of voice and artificial intelligence support technologies that can work in our AR / VR family. [augmented reality/virtual reality] products, including Portal, Oculus and future products, "said a spokesman for Facebook via The Verge.

Ira Snyder, Facebook director for AR / VR and Facebook badistant, will oversee the development of the digital badistant with a team in Redmond, Washington.

1.5 million unintentionally downloaded email addresses are now deleted

Facebook's reputation took another hit after discovering that the company had "unintentionally" downloaded the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their permission after signing up for new accounts since May. 2016. The contacts have not been shared and it is being deleted.

"We solved the underlying problem and notify the people whose contacts were being imported." Users can also view and manage the contacts they share with Facebook in their settings, "said a Facebook spokesperson. . via NBC next to a Business Insider Report.

The reason Facebook implemented this system was that it included a step in checking the account where users had the option of confirming their email address and importing their contacts to see which of their contacts were using Facebook to add them as a friend. . And it has also been used to improve advertisements.

Facebook watch design format

Facebook has decided to remove the design of Facebook Watch pages so that all video pages use the standard format of the Facebook page. And that basically makes all video creators equal on Facebook in terms of designing Pages.

The creators of videos on Facebook have been informed of the changes recently. As a result, their pages will go back to the original design of the Facebook page. The commentator of the social media industry, Matt Navarra, at the origin discovered the changes in February.

"We can confirm that we are merging the View page and the video page template on Facebook; we believe that this change will help simplify the publication process for our partners ", said a spokesman for Facebook via Digiday.

Dark mode on Messenger

The dark mode feature of the Facebook Messenger application is being rolled out worldwide for all iOS and Android users. Dark mode can be activated from the Application Settings section. The dark mode puts the cat's aesthetic look from white to black and offers a lower brightness while maintaining contrast. And it reduces the glare of your device when you use it in low light conditions.

Instagram

Hidden test as leaders

Instagram tests a user interface where the number of "likes" publications are hidden. As tests have shown that the number of people likes could affect mental health, social media companies have tested interfaces hiding the number of subscribers and the number of likes of users.

The user who publishes the image will always be able to see the number of mentions I like that a publication receives, other users will not be able to see the exact number. Jane Manchun Wong also found this feature unpublished in a beta version of Instagram:

Instagram is trying to hide like a number of spectators,

as stated in the application: "We want your subscribers to focus on what you share, not on the number of mentions of your posts on your" pic.twitter.com/MN7woHowVN

– Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) April 18, 2019

"We want your subscribers to focus on what you share, not on the number of mentions of your posts. During this test, only the person who shares a publication will see the total number of "likes" that she receives, "says Instagram in a pop-up message about the feature test.

Millions of unencrypted Instagram pbadwords have been exposed

Davey Winder, Forbes' cybersecurity partner, said last week that Instagram had revealed pbadword insecurity issues. Winder therefore recommends users to change their pbadwords.

What happened? To sum up, Facebook admitted that some user pbadwords were stored in plain text, which included millions of Instagram users. Facebook had confirmed this information in an updated statement.

"Since the release of this post, we have discovered additional Instagram pbadword logs stored in a readable format, and we now estimate that this problem has affected millions of Instagram users." We'll let them know as we do. We did the others. "Our investigation revealed that Pedro Canahuati, Vice President of Engineering, Security and Privacy at Facebook, wrote in the updated statement.

Pinterest

Shares flock to the stock market

Pinterest-based social network became public last week and its stock price soared the first trading day. The stock price closed at over $ 24 – representing an increase of nearly 30% over the $ 19 offer price. As part of its IPO, Pinterest has raised more than $ 1.4 billion and has a stock market valuation of more than $ 15 billion.

In its prospectus, Pinterest points out that it is in the "early stages" of implementing an advertising strategy that aligns users and brands. What sets Pinterest apart from other social media platforms is that its users tend to adopt branded advertising rather than actively trying to avoid it. Some of the most popular categories on Pinterest include home decoration and fashion.

However, Pinterest is not yet profitable. Pinterest recorded a net loss of $ 63 million on revenue of $ 756 million.

Twitter

Create a healthier service

Twitter recently provided an update about how it reduces abuse, spam and other malicious content. One of the major changes made by Twitter is that tweets have only been commented on if abuses have been reported in the past. They are now taking a more proactive approach by providing abusive content that teams can access. Here are some of the weak points that Twitter's Vice President, Donald Hicks, and Senior Director, Product Management, Twitter Health, David Gasca published on the changes:

• 38% of the abusive content imposed is proactively presented to our teams for review rather than relying on Twitter reports.

• 16% fewer reports of abuse after an interaction from an account that the reporter does not follow.

• 100,000 accounts suspended for creating new accounts after a suspension in January-March 2019 – an increase of 45% over the same period last year.

• 60% faster response to call requests with our new call process built into the app.

• Three times more abusive accounts suspended within 24 hours of being reported compared to the same period last year.

• 2.5 times more private information removed with a new, simpler reporting process.

Highly hired

Twitter has recruited the team behind the Highly sharing app. According to TechCrunch, this agreement was considered an "acquisition" – which meant that Twitter was interested in integrating staff rather than buying and integrating his products.

Highly's content sharing tool includes a browser plugin and an iOS application. The tool allowed users to highlight quotes from articles and share them quickly via email and on social networks. Highly will close the Slack and iOS app on April 26, but will continue to archive the strong points of the readers. And the browser plugin for Chrome, Safari and Firefox will still be available.

Vimeo

Acquisition of Magisto

Vimeo announced the acquisition of Magisto video editing service. According to several sources, the deal would have a value of about $ 200 million.

Magisto would have more than 100 million users and resort to artificial intelligence to speed up the video editing process. In the future, Vimeo will use Magisto to create new short video creation offerings.

"Social media has created an insatiable demand for videos – the public today expects high-quality video content of any size or budget. But we found that most small businesses do not have the tools, resources and expertise to meet this increased demand, "said Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo, in a statement. "Magisto's proprietary technology enables advanced mobile applications and AI-based editing tools, which, combined with Vimeo's unmatched scale and creative community, will allow more people tell fascinating stories by video. "