Senin, 19 Mei 2014

Apps From Facebook Help Media Businesses Know What's Trending

By Bilal Amed


If you have been on Facebook for a number of years, you know that there are several ways that you can do polls. There are apps that will allow you to find out what people who have friended you are thinking about topics that you bring up. But up until now, there hasn't been a way to find out what the global audience of Facebook, it's over 1.2 billion users, are thinking about at any given time. To do this, for applications have been made by Facebook, released at their latest F8 summit. Here's a quick overview of what these four applications are able to do, and why they are beneficial for both people using Facebook, and businesses today.



Overview Of The Four API Apps

There is a Hashtag Counter, a topic feed counter, and to apps which look at trends and topic insights. This data is almost real-time, so it is perfect for those that are using this information on live broadcasts. It's also beneficial for individuals that are trying to learn what topics are popular right now. If you have access to many different goods that you can sell, by marketing to individuals that are currently talking about certain products and services, it is possible for you to increase your sales.

How To Use These Apps

These are applications that are provided by Facebook, and if you have programmers, you can use the code that is provided to create applications to benefit your business. These individuals will be able to tap into all of the trending data so that you can find out what is being talked about, and use this to your advantage. These four apps should be able to help Facebook compete with Twitter, the social platform that has been used in recent years for this type of trending data. You should certainly find out what was talked about at the F8 summit when Facebook announced these applications, to learn more about how they can help you and your business.

Although Facebook has over 1 billion users, they have been struggling in regard to providing live data for news media outlets. During the Superbowl, or even American Idol, they do not have the applications, like Twitter does, that allows people to quickly find out what is trending right away. This has caused Facebook to develop for new apps that will allow newsagency's, and Facebook users, to find out what is happening right now.




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