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This week's hot news, events and videos from the online marketing and social media world. From the Position² Blog This Week:



Facebook News Feed Re-design - Effect on Content Strategies

What are the changes the Facebook News Feed re-design is bringing in your content strategy fort walls? What can you do to avoid being affected by these changes when the design rollout completes? Read on to find out...

• 26 Ways to Use Visuals in Your Social Media Marketing
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Twitter will now begin attaching value ratings to your tweets!

According to a post on the Twitter Developers’ blog, they are expected to debut on February 20. The value ratings will be assigned to tweets’ public metadata. This value judgment will be used by Twitter’s API to help developers curate huge amounts of status updates on the site in a more selective manner.

Value designations of ‘medium’, ‘low’ and ‘none’ will be offered from February 20. A ‘high’ rating will be made available at a later stage after the rollout of the first batch.

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This week's hot news, events and videos from the online marketing and social media world. From the Position² Blog This Week:



A Google+ Communities Guide for Brands

The latest offering from Google+, Communities is a minefield of cool features waiting to be tapped. Brands can use it in a multitude of ways - gaining insights for content creation, driving the right kind of traffic to your site and much more...want to know how? Check out this blog post on Google+ Communities...

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2012 has been quite the momentous year from a social media perspective. To whet your appetite for social media stats, here are some of the biggest in this year:

• Facebook hit a billion active monthly users.
• ‘Tweeters’ accounted for half a billion tweets in one day.
• People spent an astounding 1.25 billion minutes on Pinterest.
• YouTube registered over 800 million unique visits each month with over 4 billion hours of video being watched on the site.
• Instagram, Facebook’s ‘big’ acquisition, sees 5 million new images uploaded on it per day.
• Every second, two people sign up on LinkedIn.
• The Google+ “+1” button was clicked 5 billion times in a day.
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