Social media
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Meta Outlines Technical Requirements for Messaging Interoperability in Europe
With the new E.U. anti-monopoly regulations coming into effect, Meta is now finalizing the last elements of its updates to Messenger and WhatsApp, which will enable E.U. users to send messages from other, non-Meta messaging services to its user inboxes. As outlined on the Meta Engineering blog, Meta has now enabled its new systems to facilitate messaging interoperability, which will…
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Threads Makes Drafts and In-Stream Camera Available to All users
After testing them out in selected regions over the past few weeks, Threads has now announced that it’s rolling out its new in-stream camera and post draft options to all users. As you can see in these examples, now, when you exit out of an in-progress post, you’ll have the option to “Save Draft”, which will then make your draft…
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TikTok Calls on US Users to Oppose the Latest Proposal to Ban the App
TikTok is once again calling on its U.S. users to lobby the government on its behalf in light of the latest push by U.S. Senators to ban the app. Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of U.S. senators proposed a new bill that would essentially force TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to sell the platform into U.S. ownership, or it would be…
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Musk Says That X Will Soon Remove the Like, Re-Post and Reply Buttons In-Stream
Elon Musk is looking to make his next big change at the platform formerly known as Twitter, with Musk reiterating his plan to remove the reply, like and re-share buttons from X posts in-feed, leaving only the total view count and time posted. As you can see in these examples, on the left is the current post layout on X,…
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How LinkedIn Assesses the Value of Its Generative AI Features
LinkedIn has provided a new overview of how it’s measuring its latest generative AI features, with a view to enhancing the user experience with these tools, as opposed to facilitating misleading, false representations through robot-generated content. Which is undoubtedly happening in the app, but LinkedIn believes that it has a stable system in place for assessing generative AI features, in…
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Report Finds No Correlation Between Social Media Engagement and Content Readership
If you’re a regular reader of Social Media Today, you’re no doubt aware of the shift away from in-stream social media sharing, and towards engagement within enclosed message groups instead. All social platforms have seen a decline in personal posting, which could be due to concerns about social posts coming back to haunt you at a later stage, or could…
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LinkedIn Adds New Context Within Its Who Viewed Your Profile Display
LinkedIn’s “Who Viewed Your Profile” listing is among the more useless social platform features, essentially showing you a group of people who visited your profile, but had no interest in making actual contact. Which would kind of be like Tinder displaying all of the people who swiped left on your profile. Like, why would you want to know that? But…
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LinkedIn Content Ideas For Social Media Managers [Infographic]
Looking to make LinkedIn a bigger focus this year? The professional social media platform is having a moment, with a 22% increase in views of updates in the main feed year-over-year, and a 25% increase in public conversations in the app. The disruption at X seems to have pushed more industry chatter towards the app, which could provide you with more opportunity to…
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LinkedIn Content Ideas for Social Media Managers [infographic]
Looking to make LinkedIn a bigger focus this year? The professional social media platform is having a moment, with a 22% increase in views of updates in the main feed year-over-year, and a 25% increase in public conversations in the app. The disruption at X seems to have pushed more industry chatter towards the app, which could provide you with more opportunity to…
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LinkedIn Adds New Context Within its ‘Who Viewed Your Profile’ Display
LinkedIn’s “Who Viewed Your Profile” listing is among the more useless social platform features, essentially showing you a group of people who visited your profile, but had no interest in making actual contact. Which would kind of be like Tinder displaying all of the people who swiped left on your profile. Like, why would you want to know that? But…
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