Facebook Announces Global Rollout Of Sections On Timeline, Best Practices For App Developers

Facebook announced Tuesday that the application modules it introduced for Timeline in March have now been rolled out to all users, encouraging app developers in a post on its developer blog to incorporate these sections into their apps

Facebook announced Tuesday that the application modules it introduced for Timeline in March have now been rolled out to all users, encouraging app developers in a post on its developer blog to incorporate these sections into their apps.

The social network said when introducing sections in March that the modules give apps prominent placement on users’ Timelines, and the collections created by developers can help boost engagement with users.

In Tuesday’s announcement, Facebook highlighted efforts by Netflix, Rotten Tomatoes, and Goodreads in the sections covering movies, TV shows, and books, respectively, as well as apps optimizing their usage of the music (Spotify, Rdio, and Deezer) and fitness (Nike+, Endomondo, Runtastic, and Strava) sections.

Facebook said in the blog post about the global rollout of sections:

In March, we introduced new sections on Timeline to help people express what’s important to them.

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