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Not to be beaten by Twitter – who, yesterday presented followable Moments and different method for tuning into Olympics news by means of its network – Facebook is revealing various courses for its users to show support for their most loved teams in addition to tracking the Olympics news they think about in a devoted area of the News Feed, the organization reported for the current week.
Normally, the social network is again bringing back Profile Frames for the Olympics. Initially presented a year ago, this feature gives you a chance to put a custom edge around your Profile picture on Facebook. The new Olympics frames are marked with the Rio 2016 logo while additionally permitting you to demonstrate your backing for your nation or favorite teams. These will touch base before the week's over.
In the meantime, the Facebook obtaining MSQRD, a photograph and video filter application, is taking off nation banner covers which you can overlay on your photographs or videos beginning today. The application prior this mid-year additionally extended to bolster live TV to Facebook, so you can show your loved ones what you look like previously, then after the fact you wear your Olympics cover, in the event that you pick.
A fascinating expansion to the gathering of Olympics-related content on Facebook, be that as it may, is the introduction of a customized section in your News Feed. From August first to August fifth, Facebook will welcome users with an Olympics outline and message at the highest point of their News Feed. (e.g. "Energized for the Games?" trailed by a prompt to explore.)
You may have as of now seen this welcome and disregarded it, supposing it was simply one more of Facebook's nudges to motivate you to share.
However, rather, in the event that you click through, you'll be taken to a page that offers a "dynamic" blend of Olympics content, including Olympics-themed search results and conversations, and also Events, Live Videos from Rio, and more which are personalized to you.
Facebook will likewise convey comparative greetings on August 21st for the Closing Ceremony, it says.
Unfortunately, if you dismiss or overlook this greeting and it disappears, there's not an undeniable approach to discover your way over to this Olympics page once more. Indeed, that is one of the downsides of Facebook, with regards to following games content on its site today.
This is not the first run through the company has put resources into making talking about live games to a greater degree a destination, instead of an action. Not long ago, it took off "Games Stadium," an area of the social network where fans can appreciate play-by-play coverage of games matches, view comments from friends, experts, and analysts, and look at other amusement and play information. In any case, this page is likewise hard to find, if Facebook doesn't put it before you in some kind of evident way.
In light of these navigational challenges, Twitter may really be less demanding to utilize with regards to following live analysis around the games, catching up on the medal counts, or viewing a few highlights. Twitter has additionally been attempting to adjust itself to the most extensive group of onlookers of games fans in a recent month.
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