New Year celebrations are just around the corner and if you still haven’t decided on your party destination then Facebook has got some options for you. Facebook has just launched Events Discovery Application to help iOS mobile users to track nearby events. This new mobile feature will be made available to 44.53 million iPhone users in 10 Major US cities, who can search for latest events update on the basis of their location. Besides improving its event notification service, Facebook is aiming to attract more online audiences, since its social login activity in the past two years has taken a slight dip.
Additionally, it allows iOS users to choose a particular event of their liking from categories ranging from Entertainment & Music to Food & drinks, Nightlife, Sports and Fitness. And if you’re not too happy with the current happenings in your city then you can search for a different location to get a fair idea about what’s happening in other nearby places.
At present, though this feature is being rolled-out to iPhone users across 10 major US cities, there’s no need for Android users to get disheartened. Team Facebook, after beta testing it out in these 10 cities, will extend the service to Android users as well.
With only 450 million active world-wide users, Facebook’s Events section has for long, taken a back seat. It is one of the reasons why Facebook wants to revamp it completely by displaying such public events in its News Feeds section alongside smarter notifications of related events. Nowadays, with more information related to public events being dispersed regularly in its news feed section, Team Facebook is only too happy to build a strong Event Product for its dashboard.
In the meantime, let’s see what Facebook’s Product Manager, Aditya Koolwal has to say about this new development through his recent blog post.
“We have a good sense of how people look for things to do. The social signals we have, the friends who are interested in going, the friends you can potentially go with — that’s our bread and butter, so we’re going to try and take advantage of that as much as we possibly can as we roll out more discovery features.”
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