A historical overview of the most important social media news and updates from February 2017. For more details go to my personal blog at doraseeks.com. Stay informed in the social media marketing world!!

1. FEB 8
SOCIAL MEDIA NEWS & UPDATES
FEBRUARY 2017 RECAP
FEB 15
Facebook announced measures
taken to enforce diversity -
updating the Ad Policy, educating
advertisers and testing
technology that will help identify
ads that do not meet the new
policies.
Facebook issued their Annual
Financial report.
FEB 9
FEB 1
Pinterest the development of a
native video player.
Snapchat update made it
possible to create a snap-able
codes for any website.
FEB 10
Facebook announced updates
in the video ads objectives.
Facebook announced new video
post features.
LinkedIn announced new
features in articles’ comment
management.
FEB 14
FEB 20
FEB 23
Facebook announced new ways
for publishers to advertise their
video content with ads.
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LinkedIn announced Premium
new features, including
personalized insights in LinkedIn
Jobs, unique & timely business
data and more.
FEB 3
LinkedIn issued their first
monthly Workforce Report.
FEB 7
Pinterest introduced three new
visual discovery tools.
YouTube announced that they
are rolling out mobile live
streaming to every YouTube
creator with more than 10,000
subscribers.
Twitter introduced safer search
and new measures to identify
abusive accounts and Tweets.
Twitter announced that
Periscope live videos will now be
showing up in top trends as
trending content.
Snapchat announced that
Spectacles are now available for
purchase in the U.S.
FEB 21
Pinterest promoted Pins are
expanding to Ireland, Australia,
and New Zealand.
FEB 22
Instagram launched Instagram
Album posts. Users are now
able to post up to 10 photos and
videos in one post.
Twitter introduced "Custom
Profiles" - a feature allowing
businesses to emphasize the
human element in DM.