Social Media Round-Up28/04/2015

Facebook Adds Video Calling to Messenger App

• Facebook announced today a new feature for its Messenger app on iOS and Android: video calling. Now, Messenger users can have a face-to-face chat.

Emoji Are About to Take Over Instagram

• As part of the latest update, Instagram have added the ability to add emoji hashtags to posts along with three brand-new filters.

Pinterest Launches Marketing Developer Partners Program

• Similar to Facebook’s Marketing Partners, Pinterest this week announced the Marketing Developer Partners program, a way to help businesses partner with marketing companies for greater success on the platform.

Twitter.com Gets a Refresh

• Starting today, when you go to the twitter.com homepage, you’ll find interesting topics to explore like Politics, Pop Artists and even Cute Animals. Click on the topic and you’ll see a timeline of Tweets from some of the most popular accounts in that topic. It’s rich real-time content, just like the Twitter experience for users who log in.

Facebook Now Has 1.44 Billion Monthly Users

• Facebook may have missed Wall Street's estimates for its latest quarter, but it continues to grow at a healthy clip when it comes to users.

• There are now 1.44 billion people who use Facebook every month, up from the 1.39 billion last quarter.

Sharing Vines is Now Easier

• New share screen on Vine introduces many improvements, including the ability to post to Tumblr.

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