{"id":2873,"date":"2017-02-09T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/?p=2873"},"modified":"2017-02-09T12:38:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-09T12:38:44","slug":"facebook-can-new-weatherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2017\/02\/09\/facebook-can-new-weatherman\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook can be your new weatherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has rolled out a new feature that shows full weather forecast on its mobile app and desktop site.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAccording to a report in TechCrunch, within the new Weather section, users can view a full forecast for a week ahead, powered by data from Weather.com.<\/p>\n<p>The new feature, an extension of its earlier version &#8216;weather greetings&#8217;, can be accessed from News Feed or the mobile app&#8217;s &#8216;More&#8217; menu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facebook confirmed that the new feature was launched to around 95 per cent of its global population this week,&#8221; the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook rolled out &#8216;weather greetings&#8217; a year ago in News Feed, which would briefly update the weather on top of the News Feed.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest feature, users will see a similar weather information with a link to the full, five-day forecast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are doing this because our goal is to develop products that connect people to the things they care about most and create moments of joy in people&#8217;s day, like simply telling you that it&#8217;s going to rain later,&#8221; a Facebook spokesperson was quoted as saying.\u2014IANS<\/p>\n<p>Image: Alamy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has rolled out a new feature that shows full weather forecast on its mobile app and desktop site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":2874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}