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Twitter Expands its New Lists Feature
Twitter expanded the testing of new ‘Lists’ feature to 5% of the Twitter users. It plans to roll out the feature to all Twitter users in the coming weeks. I am one of the lucky ones to get this feature.
It was first announced by Twitter about 3 weeks ago and today it expanded this feature to more people.
Lists is a way to organize your followers or followings in smaller groups. You can either create a private list, which is only accessible by you, or can make your list public for others to follow as well. You can also follow lists made public by other users.
Nick Kallen, the project lead on Twitter Lists, said in a blog earlier, “The idea is to allow people to curate lists of Twitter accounts. For example, you could create a list of the funniest Twitter accounts of all time, athletes, local businesses, friends, or any compilation that makes sense.”
The stats under the user name (on the right side) shows that how many times an account has been listed. That means, the lists are linked to users’ profiles. Users visiting your profile would be able to see lists you follow and the lists which follow you.
Twitter expanded it to a small group of users, so if you happen to visit any List’s page you’ll probably see the error as below.
People had been using different services and softwares to organize their gigantic followers and followings list. I believe it will not only help people organize their lists and help find new interesting accounts but also will help in finding targeted or focused users based on interests or niche.
Facebook updates privacy features; allows more openness
If you are a person who loves socializing or are aware of the power of social networking in terms of marketing and communication, you are going to admire this new Facebook initiative.
Facebook recently allowed more openness in its privacy features and now users can open their profile (or just a portion of it) for public view. That mean now you are able to go beyond the network you belong to and can open the selected portions or the full profile of yours to the public.
New option 'Everyone' in the drop down menu on the privacy page of the profile.
You are still able to control your privacy as you used to do it before. There’s nothing changed in the existing privacy settings. This is an additional setting for those of you who wish to share with a broader audience.
Facebook explains in it’s blog, “One of the top priorities at Facebook is offering privacy controls that let you choose exactly what you share with whom. We have largely focused on enabling you to give access to your profile to people you confirmed as friends and people in your networks. While these controls remain important and a priority for us, many of you have explained that you also want to open parts of your profile to a wider audience. Starting today, you can choose to make your profile and any of your content available to everyone on Facebook.”
From the marketing point of view, it’s a good news for the online marketers especially who are involved in Social Media Optimization. It will help users to network with each other. As far as I believe, most of the users will just public their interests and their professional abilities so that they can network with the the users who have same same interests or fall in the same domain.
Allowing more openness in privacy options is another move by Facebook to let more users interact with each other and engage them in more socializing or professional networking activities.
Inside Facebook reports that by allowing public view, the profiles will still not be available in search results. Also, there has been no change in the privacy options for the minors.
It can be considered another move by Facebook to counter Twitter’s openness for subscribing to follow the tweets of almost any Twitter user.
Facebook had recently updated its user interface which also resembles with Twitter in many ways.
New Facebook: like it or hate it…?
Almost all of the Facebook users are using the redesigned Facebook now. Facebook started rolling out the redesigned version last week and claimed that the rollout would be completed by the end of this week.
After exploring the redesigned Facebook, there’s has been a mix response from the users (mostly negative response as it seems like). Some of the users believe that the new Facebook is more interactive whereas
; most of them are of the view that the new version is more confusing and is not what they were expecting.
Some of the main features which are introduced by Facebook in the redesigned version are;
1- Real-Time Stream
The main and the most prominent change/feature is the News Feed at the home page. The stream lets you know what’s happening right now in your world by showing you everything your friends and other connections.
2- The Publisher
Publisher is now on the top of the home page enabling each user a part of the stream. It makes it easy to add your own status, links, photos, thoughts and more into the stream right from the homepage.
3- Filters
Facebook introduced Filters to control the flow of the main news feed. There are pre built filters by the friends list, networks you belong to and location. Whereas; you can customize them or add new filters by making more friends list in the Friends page.
4- Highlights
As opposed to the stream, Highlights shows you what’s happening over a longer period of time. That means in news feed you just only see that what’s going on right now but in highlights section, Facebook randomly features photos, notes and other content you probably don’t want to miss. Like events lots of your friends are attending, links many people have commented on, public profiles your friends connect to and so on. The ‘People you may know’ section, Birthday/event notifications and pokes are in this section, as well.
The redesigned Facebook page.
The blog, where Facebook announced its newly updated design, got near to 6000 (by the time of writing this post) likes but the Twitter search for “new facebook’” tells something else.
Most of the people are not ready to accept the new changes right now. They are uncomfortable and feel like lost in the new design.
Twitter search for the "new facebook"; most of the comments are against the redesigned interface.
I personally like the new interface because it is more ‘interactive’ and has ‘greater usability’ than before.Now, it’s easy to update my status and to filter others’ statuses.
What disturbs me is the run to catch up with the stream and I am now getting overflowed information, even from the sources I don’t want to follow. I mean, we have Twitter for that but I don’t want to miss any of the updates from any of my contact. Now, it feels like you are lost.
The second thing I hate about the new Facebook is that now I don’t have ‘Tabs’ in my news feed now. Through tabs you could categories or limit your stream to just see the ‘Status updates’, ‘Photo updates’, ‘Notes updates’ or other things from your contacts. It’s not there now.
I am not against the development of the Facebook but I firmly believe that some of the functions of in older version were worth enough to carry on in the newer version.
I’ll also write a post on it later on.
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