A social media reader ~ March 2016

Some (mostly recent) pieces on using social media that I’d recommend:

General

7 powerful social media experiments that grew our traffic | Buffer Social

How The Washington Post works with its foreign correspondents to report via social media | Nieman Lab

Is Your Social Media Content as Popular as You Think? | Content Marketing Institute

How To Get Started With Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) | Search Engine Land

Using open soure social media sources in investigative work | Verification Handbook for Investigative Reporting

Facebook

Facebook now ranks live video higher in the news feed | Buffer Social

How to see who has shared your content on Facebook | Search Engine Land

Facebook announces a WordPress plugin that lets publishers easily create Instant Articles | Nieman Lab

Instagram

Instagram May Change Your Feed, Personalizing It With an Algorithm | New York Times

How to Tell Powerful Narratives on Instagram | Nieman Storyboard

7 ways news outlets can use Instagram | Journalism.co.uk

Twitter

Twitter has changed. Get over it | The Drum

In defence of Twitter | Slack Communications