Changes to Social Media

The Evolution of Social Media.

Social media is an ever changing beast, I remember several years ago studying for my Social Media Diploma, and there was quite an extensive section on MySpace and Friends United. Nowadays your big four platforms are Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin, with fringe social media networks such as Instagram, Pinterest and YouTube.

Google made an important announcement that it was no longer supporting consumer posts via 3rd party apps

Google recently announced it would be shutting down Google+ for consumers. This process will begin on January 28, 2019 by deprecating APIs which third-party platforms like Hootsuite use.

The impact on social media companies can liken this to not stocking a product your customers want. Unfortunately, when social media platforms do this, there is little or nothing that can be done. Which in a way is bad for the client, the social media platform and the social media platform. Moving forward, let's hope there is a work around to this.

Thanks for reading.

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