Facebook has now introduced a News service
via a Facebook Page and Twitter Feed for official News from News Services
around the world that’ll make Journalists very happy called FB Newswire as described in the
article “Facebook
cozies up to journalists with FB Newswire”, published April 24, 2014 9:12
AM PDT by Don Reisinger, CNET News and “Facebook
Launches FB Newswire To Try To Be A Journalist’s Best Friend”, published
April 24th 2014 by Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch.
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In
true Facebook style, the News of their
partnership with Storyful officially broke on Facebook
Newsroom page on Thursday April 24th 2014 as stated in “Announcing
FB Newswire, Powered by Storyful”, published April 24, 2014 By Andy
Mitchell, Director, News and Global Media Partnerships, Facebook Newsroom.
Facebook’s gambit
against Twitter – Become a bonafide
Social Media Newspaper
If
you’re a News buff like yours truly, you’d have noticed that Facebook and Twitter are a great source of News,
especially Facebook as noted in my Geezam blog article entitled “Pew
Research posits 3 in 10 get their News via Facebook as Paper set to go live”.
So Facebook Newswire is a
boon to journalists, as it now means that they have access to the official
verified Facebook pages of the various
official News sources as aggregated and verified by Storyful.
Storyful,
now currently owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp who purchased the company for
a tidy sum of £15 million pounds back in December 2013 as stated in "News
Corp buys Storyful for £15m", published Friday 20 December 2013 14.38
GMT by Jason Deans, The UK Guardian
is quite a partner for Facebook to have.
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The
Dublin, Ireland Social News aggregator was founded in 2010 and based on who you
believe, does a fairly decent job of making sure News that passes through its
editorial room is accurate and concise. This is as especially as their
partnership with Facebook call on them
to present it both on Facebook's page
and a Twitter Page as well.
Now
that Twitter has come out with a new look that look like Facebook as pointed out in my blog article
entitled “How
to Download Twitter user Pictures as Twitter makes Facebook Timeline changes”,
it look like Facebook is trying to be as
quick on the draw with News deliver as Twitter. In fact, FB Newswire also has a
twitter Feed, @FBNewswire if you
on Twitter right now!
Twitter
is where I get most of my official News from Sources all around the World,
specifically in Tech. I also get News from Facebook,
but to manage them all, I use a SMM (Social Media Management) program called
Hootsuite as described in my Geezam blog
article entitled “Social
Media Management Tools help you to manage your Social Networks all at once”.
Facebook is hoping that by including
verification of the News instead of just you following several News sources a la carte, it'll offer a service that
Journalists can't resist. This as unlike News sources posted on Twitter,
Facebook Newswire's News will all be verified News, thanks to Storyful.
And
yes, all that verified News will be available via Facebook Newswire's very own Twitter Feed and Facebook Page. This effectively
makes Facebook a source of News, if not
a bonafide Social Media Newspaper.
Won’t
be too long now before the Oculus Rift VR (Virtual Reality) head-gear becomes
refashioned into wearable smartglasses with the News delivered by a synched Facebook Smartwatch as predicted in my blog article
entitled “Facebook
buys Oculus Rift for US$2 billion - Facebook Social Virtual Reality Future as
Smartwatches and smartglasses herald the death of the smartphone in 2015”.
Here’s
the link(s):
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