Welcome to the Social Media Roundup, our weekly roundup of the latest social media news, controversies, and new features. Stay tuned each week to find out what’s hot in the social world.
New This Week! May 5-9, 2014
- Amazon and Twitter Team Up for the Ultimate Shopping Experience: Amazon and Twitter introduced a new feature this week that lets users add items to their Amazon shopping cart via Twitter by replying to a tweet that has an Amazon product link using the hashtag #AmazonCart.
- Facebook Launches Audience Insights: This new marketing tool offers trends and insights into current and potential customers behaviours across Facebook.
- Evernote Pairs Up with LinkedIn to Help You Save Business Cards: Building and keeping track of your contacts has never been easier! The popular business card scanning feature on Evernote, has now been synced with LinkedIn, finding the corresponding profile and adding the contacts information.
Snapchat
- Photos Don’t Disappear Forever: Snapchat can no longer legally claim that photos sent over its platform disappear forever as there are numerous ways for users to save photos such as, screen capture and opening them in third-party apps.
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