Shelly Palmer

Unpinned: Facebook Shuts Down Test Of Its Pinterest-Style Collections Feature

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No so Pinteresting after all. Facebook began testing Collections on October 8th. But today I found that photos users collected had disappeared and so had posts with Collect or Want buttons . I asked Facebook and it confirmed that indeed, “the test is now complete”. Maybe no one got hooked on it. Maybe Facebook will try breaking into commerce discovery some other way. But for now Collections has been shelved. Pinterest is an undeniable success. People want to nest online, saving and curating the beautiful things they find. Read the full story at TechCrunch.