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Facebook Changes Promotions Policy The update is designed to help business create and manage promotions on Facebook. Among the amendments: The social-network giant no longer requires promotions to be exclusively administered through apps; now, they’re allowed to be administered on Pages, as well.
Study: Consumers More Likely to Shop On Mobile Devices Than PCs
Smartphone and tablet users are more likely to visit a retail website or app than desktop computer users, and more than a third of visits to the top 50 e-commerce sites come exclusively from mobile devices.
Twitter Allows Users to Tweet Sentences From Articles, Not Just Titles
In a Twitter experiment, users could click on a highlighted sentence from a story, and tweet it out directly, instead of just tweeting the headline.
Twitter Makes it Easier to Follow Conversations
Now, Twitter.com and Twitter’s mobile apps show conversations in chronological order. Tweets in a conversation are connected using a vertical line.
Brands Are Already Using Facebook GIFs
The Gap posted one of the first branded GIFs on Facebook and a handful of other brands are readying theirs for release shortly.
