You can now send 4K photos Resolution via Facebook Messenger ?
Facebook today announced its Messenger chat app service supports 4K photo Resolution sharing. Now people can send and receive pictures in messenger that are“up to 4,096 x 4,096 pixels per image,” one of, if not the highest resolutions smartphones currently support.
“We heard that people want to send and receive hight resolution photos through Messenger every, and considering people send more than 17 billion photos through Messenger every Month, we’re making your conversations richer, sharper, and better that ever.” Facebook Team
And your pictures will also be sent just as quickly before, even at this new, higher resolution.
Take a look at the before and after of this picture a beach in Sydney. On the right at 4K resolution, once you zoom in, the photo is much sharper and clearer so you can see every detail.
Or on a windowsill in Paris…
How to send and share photos at 4K resolution ?
First update your Messenger app to make sure you have the latest version. Then open a conversation and tap the camera roll icon. Select the photo, tap send, and the person you’re messaging with will receive the high resolution photo.
Starting today, facebook are rolling out 4K resolution on both iPhone and Android to people in the US, Canada, France, Australia, the UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, and South Korea. In the coming weeks, they are planning to roll out 4k resolution to additional countries.
Instagram is a social network app first: the application is the number one priority, the development of Instagram on the mobile web and on the web desktop comes well after. As a result, Instagram’s web version is relatively poor when compared to the app. But the differences between these two versions fade today, with the arrival of stories on the web version of Instagram. The stories on the Instagram web version
Now you can access the stories of Instagram accounts you follow from any browser, even on desktop. The stories are referenced on the right. They remain fixed at the top of the screen, even when you scroller. As with the app, you can watch a user’s story, or click “Watch All” to see all recently published photos and videos
View stories on the web : The stories are displayed in large on the screen. As on the app, you will move on to the next or previous photo or video, thanks to an arrow. However, you can not move to the story of another account, as allowed by the application (in swiping). You can pause a story with a single click. But do not expect to download a story with a single right click, the feature is disabled. You can access images and videos by searching the source code (CTRL + U) and searching for “JPG” or “MP4”, but this is tedious.
The stories on the web version of Instagram are still limited:
You can not publish in your Instagram story on the web.
You can not see a user’s story on his profile.
On the other hand, Instagram now allows you to publish stories from a mobile browser. You no longer need the application, but it is still advisable to have a better experience. The trick of making Instagram believe that you’re using a mobile phone while it’s a PC (changing User-Agent) does not work because the social network is asking you to “rotate your device” to add content to your story.
December 3rd 2017 marks the 25th anniversary of the first SMS text message ever sent ??.
And in order to mark the SMS anniversary (remember thumbing them in on your old Nokia 5110? ?), Facebook has commissioned a global study of messaging use in order to provide some additional perspective on how messages are now being used, and the role they play in the modern interactive process.
At Messenger, facebook team believe in the power of messages to make meaningful connections. They believe in their power to engage and unite the people who make use of them. With this study, they wanted to dig deeper into how our global conversation has evolved and get a glimpse of where it is going, plus understand if some commonly believed myths were true. What they found is that messaging turns out to be not a wedge, but instead a bridge bringing us closer together.
Facebook’s included an overview of their findings in the below infographic – you can read the full ‘Messages that Matters’ report here.
Microsoft launches Sonar, an online tool to test the performance of its website. Just enter the address of your site to start the scan and to know the errors related to accessibility, interoperability, performance, security and PWA.
Microsoft sonar :
There are many tools of this type on the Internet, but Sonar have many strengths, including its documentation. For each error or warning, Sonar tells you the reasons for the report. You understand the action taken by the tool and why it is important for accessibility, performance, security,
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Sonar is available online, but you can also install it on your server to analyze the quality of a non-accessible online site (pre-prod or intranet version). To access the tool, visit sonarwhal.com/scanner. The technical documentation for installing Sonar on a server is available here.
The new Ad Manager 2.0 has integrated the platform’s Advanced Mode features, which include frequency capping, Snap Publisher, its browser-based video editing software, Business Manager, and Audience Filters with a Filter auction. ?
Peter Sellis, Director of Revenue Product : “We’ve streamlined Snapchat Ads Manager so advertisers can buy, optimize, target, and measure in one simple place. And we added Audience Filters to the tool, a big win for advertisers who want to run creative, targeted camera ads at an efficient price.”
The Snapchat Advertising Manager 2.0 allows you to:
Create and edit Snapchat ads
Analyze the performance of advertisements
Create advanced campaigns (Ad Set Dupublication, Frequency Capping …)
Create a Creative Library Create custom videos (Snap Publisher)
Manage advertising account, authorized members and billing
Create a Snapchat advertisement with the Ads Manager
The creation of a Snapchat advertisement starts as on Facebook, you first choose a goal before designing your advertisement: acquisition of traffic, application installation, retargeting application users, acquiring views on a video, improvement of the reputation
Then, depending on the format chosen, you download the relevant content (video campaign, filter …) or select the content in your library. A convenient feature for frequently re-using advertising content. You no longer have to determine your target and your budget to launch your campaign.
Snapchat vs. Facebook
Snapchat takes advantage of these ads to communicate new numbers. Snap Inc. emphasizes that the app has matured and now reaches a wide audience. Snapchat will even compare to Facebook and Instagram …
3.5 billion snaps are sent each day
3 billion snaps with a filter are seen every day
16 million French people can be targeted on Snapchat, vs. 34 million on Facebook, vs. 10 million on Instagram Stories
9 million French people aged 13-25 can be targeted, vs. 8 million on Facebook, 6 million on Instagram (feed) and 5 million on Instagram Stories.
Now you can upload Gifs on facebook without having to rely on an external GIF-hosting service like Giphy or Imgur, copy and paste a link into your status, whish will automatically detect that it’s an animation and will place a gif,now it’s over ! ?
Facebook has always been hesitant to bring GIFs to its platform, fearing that they would lead to a bad user experience for people. So, up until now, the ability to post GIFs on Facebook has been limited, and has taken many shapes over the years. First, users were given the ability to post a GIF in animated form, by posting a link from a service like Gif Hoster. Then, Facebook extended that feature to Pages as well. Then came the ability to advertise using GIFs, and a dedicated GIF button in comments. Now, users can post GIFs just like they would do with any image or video. ?
If you have a good GIF that hasn’t been uploaded to GIPHY, you can now upload it as a video. Facebook automatically recognises the file format and deals with it just like it would a video – you even get the notification that your video is processing, and that you will be notified when it’s finished.
Your GIF will then appear in its animated form with “GIF” written across it, allowing users to click to pause or play like posting it from Giphy, and Just like videos, it will autoplay and loop within your News Feed. Right-clicking brings up an option to “pause,” “mute,” or “show video URL.” ?
This should also increase the organic reach of GIFs on the News Feed as Facebook gives videos preferential treatment.
Instagram is testing out a new feature that will allow you to follow #hashtags, which should make it easier to find the content you love.
If you want a page full of cute puppies, but can’t be bothered to search for all the cute puppies on Instagram, you can just follow the hashtag #cutepuppies in order to more easily get your daily doggy fix. This can also make it easier to find posts relating to niche topics, because rather than trying to find someone who posts about that topic, you can simply follow the topic itself.
So far the feature has only shown up briefly for one of TNW’s team members, so it appears to be a limited test for now. Instagram declined sharing more information when we reached out for comment, but experimental features often end up rolling out widely. This one seems like a particularly useful one, so I imagine it’s only a matter of time.
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Here are the latest Instagram statictics from 2017. Use these stats to inform your 2018 social media strategy and see how marketers are looking to expand their brands reach with Instagram.
1. 70% of Instagram posts don’t get seen (Sprout social, 2017)
Before the Instagram algorithm update posts were ordered by featuring the newest posts at the top of your feed. Instead, the change brings about an algorithm-driven feed, which is now ordered by what you are most interested in. Brands, in particular, became concerned that their content might no longer be seen.
2. Instagram has 800 Million users overall (Instagram statistics, 2017)
Instagram has doubled its user base, to 800 million monthly actives in two years, fueled by new features such as stories, shoppable photos, explore pages and many more new features. 3. 70.7% of US businesses are using Instagram in 2017 (Sprout social, 2017)
Brands are more active and prominent on Instagram than ever. Currently, there are more than 1 million brands sharing and promoting their products and stories on the social network.
4. Beyonce holds the record for the most liked Instagram with her pregnancy announcement which garnered almost 11 million likes (Instagram, 2017)
5. 25% of Instagram ads are single videos (Sprout social, 2017)
While photos ads are the most common on Instagram, video has gained a lot of traction. In fact, 25% of Instagram ads are single videos. Video ads are most effective at getting higher engagement rates but tend to cost a bit more than photo ads.
6. There are 2 Million monthly advertisers on Instagram (Instagram, 2017)
7. 7 out of 10 hashtags on Instagram are branded (Sprout social, 2017)
8. Time spent watching video on Instagram is up more than 80% year over year (Instagram, 2017)
9. 59% of Instagram users are 18 to 29 year old (Smart Insights, 2017)
10. Instagram Stories Has More Than 250 Million Active Daily Users (Sprout social, 2017)
11. 80% of users follow 1 or more brands on Instagram (Instagram, 2017)
12. Posts with at least one hashtag average 12.6% more engagement (Hootsuite, 2017)
13. The best time to post on Instagram for the most engagement is at 2am or 5pm on Mondays or Thursdays (CoSchedule, 2017)
