Social Media News: Vine adds messaging, Pinterest a new way to track pins, & Twitter now supports multiple photos per tweet.

Welcome back everyone! Hope this week has been productive. Here’s the shakedown on social media news from this week.

Today Vine released private messaging. You can now send private Vine videos and text messages to your friends and also anyone in your address book, even if they are not on Vine. Here’s how: To create your VM (Vine message), select the new “Messages” option in the navigation menu, record a video and send to your friends. You can choose to send to one friend or multiple people. Each conversation is one-to-one, so if you send the video to multiple friends, you will start multiple separate conversations. The message inbox has two sections: Friends (people you know) and Other (people outside your network). There is a privacy option, allowing you to control who can send you messages. If you only wish to receive messages from friends, you can turn off the “Other” inbox within your settings. Source

Pinterest introduces a new way to track Pins

Pinterest has added support for Google Analytics UTM variables. This will allow you to view your campaigns right on your Google Analytics dashboard. In order to see how your pins are performing, you must tag your Pin links with the correct UTM parameters. If you have already added UTM tracking to your Pin links, you will start to see more activity on the campaigns and tracking in Google Analytics. Source

Twitter now supports multiple photos per tweet

Recent research has indicated that Tweets with photos receive a 35% boost in retweets on average. Twitter now allows for you to take advantage of this boost by sharing multiple photos in one tweet. You can include up to four pictures, which will be displayed as a preview collage for your followers’ timelines. Each photo can be expanded to see individually. Also, Twitter now allows you to tag people in the picture or collection of pictures that you post. The tags do not count toward your 140 character limit. You can tag up to ten people, and their names (not @username) will be displayed alongside the photo. Source

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