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MidweekMinute: now expanding to 2:80 (just kidding)
Twitter doubles character limit from 140 to 280; Target teams up with Pinterest for visual search; Instagram enhances its privacy settings to limit who can comment on your posts; Microsoft Office 365 incorporates LinkedIn profiles into its products.
After a bit of a break, I'm back to a weekly #MidweekMinute! Did you miss me? This week's is coming at you LIVE from the #INBOUND17 conference in Boston! (To catch up with my conference learnings, check out my Twitter feed or stay tuned next week for blog posts of my Storify threads).
This week's top stories that fit into a minute:
Twitter doubles character limit from 140 to 280:
Giving you more characters to express yourself (Twitter blog)
Twitter just doubled the character limit for tweets to 280 (The Verge)
7 Questions About Twitter's Doubled Character Limit (The Atlantic)
Pinterest/Target visual search teamup:
Pinterest's Lens tech powers Target's visual search tool (Engadget)
Target Embedding Pinterest Camera Search Tool in Its App (The Wall Street Journal)
Instagram commenting settings:
Instagram Lets You Limit Comments Just To People You Follow (BuzzFeed News)
Instagram: Here’s How to Stop Users From Commenting On a Post (Adweek)
LinkedIn/Microsoft Office 365 profile integration:
LinkedIn profiles are coming soon to your Microsoft work apps (TheNextWeb)
Microsoft finally starts doing something with LinkedIn by integrating it into Office 365 (TechCrunch)
Social - Brian Tietje of LinkedIn
Thanks so much to Brian Tietje, global client director for LinkedIn, for appearing on this week's edition of Social with Christine Gritmon! Great conversation about engaging with your network, how different social media platforms have influenced each other, and new developments for LinkedIn (both recent and upcoming).
Thanks so much to Brian Tietje, global client director for LinkedIn, for appearing on this week's edition of Social with Christine Gritmon! Great conversation about engaging with your network, how different social media platforms have influenced each other, and new developments for LinkedIn (both recent and upcoming).