Facebook pushes embedded posts to further counter Twitter

Tencent Science and technology Tom August 22 compiled Facebook local time announced in Wednesday, the company has been in accordance with the early user feedback has been partially optimized after the full opening of the site "embedded posts" (Embedded Posts) function. In the future, all third party websites and postings can use this feature to publish content on Facebook to their blogs or other sites, much like Twitter's "embedded tweets" feature. In fact, Facebook earlier this July announced the opening of a handful of platforms, including CNN, The Huffington Post, the tech-media Mashable and the online version of People magazine Huffington. After some optimizations based on feedback from the former, Facebook finally decided to fully open the "Embed posts" feature. It is reported that the use of this feature forwarded video content can be directly in the third party site to play, without having to jump back to the original Facebook page, Facebook will also provide a post for the posts of "embedded code" for other users to call. At the same time, Facebook says it will further optimize this feature for mobile devices so that "embedded posts" can be more suitable for display on small-screen devices. Moreover, the "praise", Comment and share button sizes of mobile-end Facebook apps will be magnified to reduce the frequency of user error clicks. It should be noted that the current feature will only be open to those public posts, which means that other people can not be allowed to the user without the permission of a part of the original read access to the post embedded forward. Of course, users can "praise", comment and share the posts directly on the third party website, and even directly focus on the author or jump to the original page of Facebook. "If you are a content publisher, you can join our ' Facebook news, media and Publishing Group ' (Facebook Press & Publishing Group) group on our newest products and ' Embed posts ' function to give feedback. Also, we have released a new version of the Facebook plugin for WordPress, which can also support the ' Embed posts ' feature. You can also access the ' Embed posts ' feature document to see more information. Outside analysis, Facebook's move is intended to further confront Twitter. The image-sharing app Instaram, which Facebook bought earlier this year, added a video-sharing feature, but Twitter built this feature back in December 2011. The latter, however, released its independent view in March this yearFrequency sharing service vine. It is worth mentioning that Twitter has just launched a feature called "Related News" (Related headlines) in the local time this Monday, which can display relevant news reports from other media on a permanent link page of Twitter. This makes it easier for users to understand the background and information about a particular piece of news.