Social media
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Instagram Adds New In-Stream Safety Alerts to Help Improve Awareness of Scams
Instagram’s adding some new measures to better protect users from suspicious activity, including new warnings when potentially scammy profiles request to connect, and new alerts if you get tagged or mentioned by an account that you don’t follow in the app. First off, on IG’s new warnings. Now, when an account that Instagram’s systems detect could be impersonating an individual…
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Google and Meta Explore New Ways To Moderate AI Responses, and Whether They Should
How much protectionism is too much in generative AI, and what say should big tech providers, or indeed anybody else, actually have in moderating AI system responses? The question has become a new focus in the broader Gen AI discussion after Google’s Gemini AI system was found to be producing both inaccurate and racially biased responses, while also providing confusing…
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X Launches Live Test of Video in Spaces
X’s new video Spaces option is now in live testing, with some X Premium subscribers able to launch Spaces chats with video in-stream. As you can see in this example, posted by DogeDesigner, now, when launching a Spaces session, you can flip the “Enable video” toggle in the set-up, which will then open the Spaces window with your own device…
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TikTok Launches Live Test of Option to Automatically Identify Products in User Uploads
TikTok continues to expand its in-stream shopping push, in the hopes of evolving usage behavior, with its new option to make any object in any video “shoppable” now in live testing for some users. As you can see in this example, posted by social media expert Lindsey Gamble, some users are now seeing a new toggle within the video upload…
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Threads Chief Proposes Auto-Archiving User Posts After 30 Days
Does it make sense to keep all of your old social posts on your profile in perpetuity, or would we better off taking a Snapchat-like, ephemeral approach to our updates, where everything is automatically erased after a certain period? This has long been a debate among social media communities, particularly as more celebrities and other high-profile users have had their…
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How Are Marketers Incorporating Generative AI? [Infographic]
Are you utilizing generative AI tools in your digital marketing process? According to research, most marketers are now incorporating AI into their daily process, with a recent survey among the SMT community showing that 40% of marketers are using Gen AI tools daily, while only 13% are not using them at all. The team from SEMRush has provided further insight,…
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Threads Chief Proposes Auto-Archiving User Posts After 30 Days
Does it make sense to keep all of your old social posts on your profile in perpetuity, or would we better off taking a Snapchat-like, ephemeral approach to our updates, where everything is automatically erased after a certain period? This has long been a debate among social media communities, particularly as more celebrities and other high-profile users have had their…
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How Are Marketers Incorporating Generative AI? [Infographic]
Are you utilizing generative AI tools in your digital marketing process? According to research, most marketers are now incorporating AI into their daily process, with a recent survey among the SMT community showing that 40% of marketers are using Gen AI tools daily, while only 13% are not using them at all. The team from SEMRush has provided further insight,…
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Threads Chief Proposes Auto-Archiving of Posts After 30 Days
Does it make sense to keep all of your old social posts on your profile in perpetuity, or would we better off taking a Snapchat-like, ephemeral approach to our updates, where everything is automatically erased after a certain period? This has long been a debate among social media communities, particularly as more celebrities and other high-profile users have had their…
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TikTok Launches Live Test of Option to Automatically Identify Products in User Uploads
TikTok continues to expand its in-stream shopping push, in the hopes of evolving usage behavior, with its new option to make any object in any video “shoppable” now in live testing for some users. As you can see in this example, posted by social media expert Lindsey Gamble, some users are now seeing a new toggle within the video upload…
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