Facebook starts broadcasting Live video stream for Verified pages

 In August Facebook first introduced Live Video using Facebook Mentions on iOS . A large number of audience since then has tried Live video including media personalities, Sportspersons, small business owners and so on.

Earlier this month Facebook introduced Live video  to a select audiences in US with iPhones, today Facebook has announced that it is introducing Live streaming for Verified pages .using Facebook for iOS.

Many media houses, Sports Teams and other verified pages can use this feature. To start using this feature the users need to go Your Page on iOS for Facebook, click Publish button and then select Live option, after clicking you need to enter a small description and then go Live instantly.

During the broadcast a user will be able to see number of other verified pages tuning in to your feed, live stream of comments and after the broadcast has ended, the user can leave the video in the Time line or delete it.

People who like a particular verified page are notified through news feed and notifications when that verified page goes live again and it also has the subscribe button for users to get notified when ever the liked page goes live again.

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Instant Articles By Facebook To Be Available For All Android Users

 Facebook Instant Articles earlier announced by the company, that it would be testing IA as Beta version for Android and now today it has announced it is in fact quitting the beta version to let the feature to be used by all the Android users. That means it will have a huge audience as Android has a large base which runs into millions of users.

Instant articles could be recognized with a lightning bolt icon on top right corner. There is option to monetize the articles by the publishers by selecting to publishing their own advertisements or let FB publish their selected ads.

 Following Facebook, Google and Twitter too wanted to have their own version of Instant articles and hence partenered to have their own news tool. Apple too followed it and has it's own stand alone news app which is bundled with iOS9.

Articles clicked on search results open almost instantly. Here Google uses the cached version of the original web site contetn instead of hosting the content and hence different from Facebook and Apple. And the content is being kept open source

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