Social Media: This Week’s Top Stories // December 20, 2015

Extroverts Rejoice! Now Facebook Finds You Parties | 9 Etsy-Made Gifts That Keep Holiday Giving Weird | Lightsaber Yourself With Facebook’s Star Wars Profile Pics | MIT Researchers Train An Algorithm To Predict How Boring Your Selfie Is | Telegram Gets 1.5M+ Download Spike As Brazil WhatsApp Shutdown Kicks In | Facebook Tests “Click For More” To Boost Video Views On Desktop | Build Or Buy? Anatomy Of An Acquisition — Or Why Buffer Just Bought Respondly |
SOCIAL MEDIA
WEEK IN REVIEW
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20 2015 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Josh Constine

Extroverts Rejoice! Now Facebook Finds You Parties

Facebook should tell me what to do tonight. It already knows what I like, where I live, and who I hang out with. Now it will. After accidentally becoming the... Read More…
Drew Olanoff

9 Etsy-Made Gifts That Keep Holiday Giving Weird

I’ve always found that the weirder gifts, no matter how much they cost, are the ones that people appreciate the most. Sure, you could send someone a... Read More…
Josh Constine

Lightsaber Yourself With Facebook’s Star Wars Profile Pics

Show you’re down with The Force this week then hide your Jedi ways with Facebook’s new Star Wars temporary profile pictures. Just in time for the... Read More…
Natasha Lomas

MIT Researchers Train An Algorithm To Predict How Boring Your Selfie Is

Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created an algorithm they claim can predict how memorable or forgettable an... Read More…
Natasha Lomas

Telegram Gets 1.5M+ Download Spike As Brazil WhatsApp Shutdown Kicks In

Messaging app Telegram is currently experiencing a bump in downloads in Brazil thanks to a local court ruling forcing a 48 hour shutdown of WhatsApp. Read More…
Ingrid Lunden

Facebook Tests “Click For More” To Boost Video Views On Desktop

Facebook says it now gets around 8 billion video views on its platform each day, and the social network has made no secret of its plans to make it an even... Read More…
Natasha Lomas

Build Or Buy? Anatomy Of An Acquisition — Or Why Buffer Just Bought Respondly

Radically transparent social media scheduling firm Buffer, which does stuff like publish its staff salaries and publicly detail its company revenue, has... Read More…
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