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X is Developing a New ‘Articles’ Content Option for Long-Form Posts
Elon Musk wants to make X people’s main source for news updates, repeatedly touting his “everything app” as a competitor to mainstream publishers, and the only platform willing to tell the truth, direct from the public. Which is why, in Elon’s world at least, the media at large is now out to get him. Which is not true, but that’s…
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YouTube Expands Youth Safety Measures for Safer Internet Day
YouTube’s marking Safer Internet Day with some expanded measures to help keep young users safe, including updates to its in-stream “Take a Break” prompts, a broader roll out of content restrictions for potentially harmful topics, and a new report on digital wellbeing, created in collaboration with adolescent health experts. First off, on Take Break reminders, YouTube’s in-app alerts to ensure…
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Meta Outlines New Approaches to Generative AI Transparency
With the use of generative AI on the rise, Meta’s working to establish new rules around AI disclosure in its apps, which will not only put more onus on users to declare the use of AI in their content, but also, ideally, implement new systems to detect AI usage, via technical means. Which is not always going to be possible,…
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LinkedIn’s Removing Its Creator Mode Option
LinkedIn is getting rid of its “Creator Mode” option as part of its broader shift away from hashtags as a connective tool, though it’s still keeping most of its Creator Mode elements as optional tools for all users, even if you haven’t switched Creator Mode on in your settings. Originally launched in 2021, LinkedIn’s Creator Mode provides dedicated tools to…
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Snapchat Announces New Round of Layoffs, Affecting 500 Roles
Snap Inc. has announced a new round of layoffs, with the company set to cull 10% of its global workforce as it continues to rationalize costs, and re-focus the business. As reported by CNBC, Snap will cut around 500 roles as part of its latest cost and strategic review. As per Snap: “We are reorganizing our team to reduce hierarchy…
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The Buyer’s Journey: How To Reach Your Audience at Every Stage [Infographic]
Are you producing content to address every stage of the buyer’s journey? Ensuring that you’re providing the answers that your potential customers are seeking is key to maximizing your opportunities, and within that, you do need to consider the various stages, and how your communications are meeting them, or not. Segmentation is also important, in getting the right message to…
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8 Questions Your Website Visitors Want Answered Within 10 Seconds [Infographic]
Are you looking for ways to make your business website more effective? Want to know the key information your visitors are really searching for? The team from Red Website Design share the 8 questions your website needs to answer in this infographic. Here’s a quick summary: What Are You Selling? Why Should They Care? What’s the Cost? What Differentiates Your…
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YouTube Tests Alternate Color Feeds for Premium Users
This is an interesting experiment. Probably not overly useful, but interesting nonetheless. According to 9 to 5 Google, YouTube’s currently testing out a new way to sort videos, based on the predominant color of (seemingly) the thumbnail image. As you can see in this example, some users are being prompted to “Create a feed of videos based off color”, which…
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Facebook Continues To Add Users After 20 Years of Existence
Despite ongoing predictions of its demise, and countless straight up declarations of the same, Facebook is still going strong, and still adding users, despite the app now having been with us for 20 years. Yes, this week marks the 20th anniversary of “The Facebook”, Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard side project, which went on to become a global powerhouse, which is now…
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Threads Chief Reiterates Trending Topics Won’t Significantly Impact the App’s Growth
Will trending topics improve the overall Threads experience, and get people posting more often to the app? Today, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has reiterated his contention that features like trending topics won’t have a big impact on Threads’ growth, though he has provided some more context as to what he does believe will be important, as they look for new…
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