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2. Facebook Launches New Standalone Photos App – ‘Moments’
• Facebook Moments is effectively a private sharing device for your photos. It
operates independently of Facebook, so you won’t be sharing photos with all your
Facebook friends (unless you opt to), enabling you to pick and choose specific
groups and users you want to share images with.
• http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/adhutchinson/2015-06-16/facebook-launches-new-standalone-photos-
app-moments

3. YouTube Creates YouTube Gaming to Rival Twitch
• YouTube is taking gaming to a completely new level with the announcement that
they’re launching their own gaming content platform—called YouTube Gaming—
which experts believe will compete with, and very well may make Twitch, extinct.
• http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-business/peteschauer/2015-06-14/youtube-creates-youtube-gaming-rival-twitch

4. Can't Think of a Good Status Update? Facebook Will do it For You
• Ever find yourself wondering what to post on Facebook? Don’t worry, Facebook’s
got you covered – already playing a significant part in your day-to-day interactions,
Facebook’s now looking to take the burden of thought off you also, by providing
prompts in the status update field on trending topics and subjects of interest that
you might have thoughts on.
• There have been various reports in the last month of Facebook users seeing topic
prompts in their Status Update field. In one example, reported on Social Times, the
user was shown a listing of suggested topics, in the form of hashtags, that he/she
may want to talk about.
• http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/adhutchinson/2015-06-16/cant-think-good-status-update-facebook-will-
do-it-you

5. Twitter Removing 140 Character Limit from Direct Messages
• The news announcements keep on coming out of Twitter HQ. Just hours after
confirming that CEO Dick Costolo would be stepping down, Twitter’s Development
Team announced that they are removing the 140 character limit from Direct
Messages (DMs).
• This comes after another recent change to DMs, which enabled users to send DMs
to anyone, even those they weren’t directly connected to. Coupled together, Twitter
is hoping the redefine the use of Direct Messaging on the platform, likely inspired by
the massive growth of messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Snapchat.
• http://www.socialmediatoday.com/social-networks/adhutchinson/2015-06-12/twitter-removing-140-character-limit-direct-
messages

6. Spotify Music Streaming Platform Reaches 20 Million Subscribers
• Spotify has announced it has reached more than 20 million subscribers and more
than 75 million active users, marking huge increases for the music streaming
platform over the past year.
• It took Spotify five and a half years to reach its first 10 million subscribers, so to put
its recent growth into perspective, 10 million new subscribers in a single year is an
average of one new subscriber every three seconds.
• http://www.adweek.com/socialtimes/spotify-music-streaming-platform-reaches-20-million-subscribers/621610

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