● Top 3 Awesome Social Media Changes

Of 2016

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Finally, you made it through 2016. Went away like a breeze didn’t it? Speaking of

moving fast, if we consider the swiftness of social media changes during this year it’ll

look like a swift breeze. The amount of changes occurred in this year can easily make

up for the last 5 years of change in Social media marketing space There have been a lot

of major changes and we’ll look at the top 3 biggest ones.

LIST OF SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL MEDIA CHANGES OF 2016:-

● Twitter Finally Going Easy on the Character Limits

A few months back Twitter finally announced that it would be doing away with the 24

characters for media attachments and also not including @mentions in the count. This

thing should have been done a long time back. This decision finally lets the user to get

the best experience out of twitter without feeling restricted. The whole marketing

community is especially thankful to Twitter for this highly anticipated move. After this

move one question arose everywhere; Why didn’t this happen earlier? The answer to

that, well, it lies with Twitter and nobody else will ever know.

● Facebook Introducing Reactions

Initially, we weren’t really sure how this thing would pan out. Will people use the “angry”

reaction to the ads? Or in fact would they get how to use the reactions at all? Would

some people react something they didn’t mean to by mistake and end up regretting?

Such questions were blaring through and making us feel uneasy. But, to everyone’s

surprise, reactions have actually been a great way of expressing ourselves. It’s story

telling and emotions mixed into one. People who own a page on Facebook have now

better insights as to how their fans are reacting to their posts and how exactly are they

feeling.

● Snapchat bringing Geo-Filters On Demand

Snapchat, like everyone knows, is one the biggest and widely popular apps today. It

brought upon a major change which introduced Geo-Filters. No matter where you go,

you will find a Geo-Filter based upon your location. That’s a quite cool feature and every

one agrees. Earlier this feature seemed far-fetched and was limited to only big paying

brands.Then Snapchat finally decided to change it and went ahead to make it really

easy for the users to create and use custom geo-filters based on all locations and

landmarks. By this, Snapchat added to one of the most significant social media changes

happening in 2016.

Overall, a lot changes took place in the sea of social media changes and all if those

were welcome changes. Facebook finally let us react more openly, Snapchat allowed us

to make every location fun and Twitter just giving us a sigh of relief. We hope all these

big players of social media keep introducing such major changes and keep us

entertained and made our lives easier side by side.