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Saturday, 30 July 2016

Social Media: This Week’s Top Stories // July 30, 2016

Gilded as charged | Dating apps attach themselves to the Pokémon craze | Twitter will stream its first eSports competition, starting today | Facebook crushes Q2 earnings, hits 1.71B users and record share price | SurveyMonkey study finds social media apps ruled mobile in first half of 2016 | Zuck says augmented reality will flourish on phones before glasses | Will Facebook be your next call center operator? |
SOCIAL MEDIA
WEEKLY ROUNDUP
SATURDAY, JULY 30 2016 THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES:
TOP HEADLINE | Devin Coldewey

Gilded as charged

The threat of advertising skulks outside the periphery of every free site or service, but the more terrifying thought is that, to paraphrase "Scary Stories to... Read More…
Sarah Perez

Dating apps attach themselves to the Pokémon craze

Pokémon Go may be the perfect dating app: you're out in the real world, have an immediate way to start a conversation with an attractive stranger and, clearly,... Read More…
Sarah Perez

Twitter will stream its first eSports competition, starting today

It's no Twitch, but Twitter this weekend will live stream its first eSports competition on its service, thanks to a partnership with Eleague. Twitter will... Read More…
Josh Constine

Facebook crushes Q2 earnings, hits 1.71B users and record share price

Coming off an all-time high stock price of $123.34, Facebook in Q2 2016 smashed earnings again. The social network continued steady growth just slightly slower... Read More…
Lucia Maffei

SurveyMonkey study finds social media apps ruled mobile in first half of 2016

A new study from SurveyMonkey Intelligence revealed the 30 most-downloaded and most-used apps in the American iOS and Android app stores so far this year.... Read More…
Josh Constine

Zuck says augmented reality will flourish on phones before glasses

Snapchat selfie lenses and Pokemon Go, not Magic Leap and HoloLens. Smartphones are how Mark Zuckerberg sees augmented reality going mainstream, rather than... Read More…
Gregg Zegras

Will Facebook be your next call center operator?

How would you describe Facebook? Historically, it's been the social hub of billions of users looking to stay connected with friends and family. Yet in recent... Read More…
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