Top 5 Social Media News This Week

The big players made the news this week as Facebook and Twitter have been making big announcements lately. Indeed, between the confirmation of new products and the announced farewell of other “historic” features, the week has been surprising!

	Facebook Removes “People Talking About This” – one of the most known, but also most misunderstood, insight on Facebook will be disappearing soon, being replaced by separate data elements.
	Facebook To Launch Its Own Dashboard for Businesses – In a continuous move to cater more and better for its business clients, Facebook announced it will now offer them an in-house social media management dashboard.
	Twitter Officially Brings ‘Favoring Accounts’ Feature – We had reported it, back in January, Twitter is now rolling out a new functionality that will give the opportunity to its users to ‘favorite’ the accounts they read or interact with more.
	Is Twitter Removing the ‘@’? – It seems Twitter is now considering to remove their trademark – the reply ‘@’! Is this true? Well, according to The Next Web, this is the case. Is this a new attempt to Facebooking their feed?
	5 Ideas to Integrate Social Media Into Big Events – Nowadays you cannot afford to organize your big event without incorporating social media. In fact, it is now a proven technique to raise awareness, drive signups and engage with the participants.