Social media
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Instagram Tests Making the Messaging Icon the Main Focus in the App
Over time, more and more engagement on Instagram is shifting to DMs, which Instagram is now trying to lean into with new features like Notes, that are aligned with more private sharing. And it’s also experimenting with an even more significant change in this respect, with some users now seeing a new messaging icon in the lower function bar in…
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Meta Publishes New Holiday Marketing Playbook
Looking to maximize your social media marketing efforts this holiday season? This will help. Meta has published a new guide to holiday marketing, which includes a heap of tips and pointers to put you on the right track with your planning, with a specific focus on Reels ads and its advancing AI tools. You can download the 19-page guide for…
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TikTok Partners with DistroKid to Help Emerging Musicians Maximize the App
TikTok’s looking to make it easier for independent musicians to build a presence in the app, via a new partnership with DistroKid that will enable DistroKid artists to build their TikTok presence, direct from the promotion platform. As you can see in this example, with this new process, artists using DistroKid, which is a key daabase for independent musicians, will…
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X Will Now Allow Users to Request a Community Note on Posts
X is expanding its Community Notes option once again, this time by adding the capacity for users to request a note on posts that they believe may include questionable claims. As you can see in this example, there’s now a new option within the post menu on desktop to “Request Community Note”, which will then flag that for checking by…
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Meta Suspends AI Development in EU and Brazil Over Data Usage Concerns
Meta’s evolving generative AI push appears to have hit a snag, with the company forced to scale back its AI efforts in both the EU and Brazil due to regulatory scrutiny over how it’s utilizing user data in its process. First off, in the EU, where Meta has announced that it will withhold its multimodal models, a key element of…
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Snap Launches Snap Sports Network to Cover Niche Events
After previewing it back in May, Snapchat has now shared more details of its coming “Snap Sports Network”, which will include a team of popular sports creators presenting the latest news on left-of-center sports. Well, “sports” in this context is a bit of a loose term. As noted, Snap’s Sports Network won’t be focused on the regular sports headlines like…
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Instagram Expands Notes to Reels and Feed Posts
Instagram has announced another expansion of its Notes messaging feature, with users now able to leave Notes on both Reels and feed posts in the app. As you can see in this example, with Reels, followers are now able to add a note from the messaging menu, providing another way to interact with friends. The approach is similar on feed…
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Google Expands ‘Emoji Kitchen’ for World Emoji Day
Today is World Emoji Day, and Google has taken the opportunity to announce an expansion of its Emoji Kitchen platform, while also previewing a new Emoji Kitchen effect coming soon to YouTube Shorts. Google first launched Emoji Kitchen on Android devices back in 2020, which enables users to create mash-ups of different emoji characters, essentially combining them into new emoji.…
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Meta Plans to Allow New Studies into Instagram’s Impact on Teens
After years of accusations about Instagram’s impact on teens, and refutations of the same from Meta, the company is looking to allow researchers to conduct an in-depth study of the platform’s impacts on young users, as part of a new expansion of its restrictive research program. As reported by The Atlantic, Meta’s planning “a small pilot program” that will enable…
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Meta Adds More Elements to the Threads API to Drive Engagement
Meta’s added another way for developers to integrate Threads into their own websites, with a new “Web Intents” element of the Threads API, that will enable direct engagement with Threads from a third party site. Web Intents facilitates direct connection with the app from an external site, so that you can make it easier for people to share links to…
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