Social Media News: Twitter halts removing inactive accounts, Facebook prototypes “close friends” feature, Facebook and Instagram outages and more Twitter halts its plan to remove inactive accounts until they can figure out how to address the accounts of deceased loved ones, Facebook is prototyping a "Favorites" list similar to "Close Friends" on Instagram, Facebook and Instagram experience outages over Thanksgiving and Facebook launches Viewpoints where users can earn money from surveys. Read more
The Ultimate Guide to Instagram Story Ads All things Instagram Story ads! How to get started with Instagram Story ads and 7 of our favorite tips and tricks. Read more
How to Schedule Instagram Posts and Stories: A Step-By-Step Guide See how to quickly and easily schedule Instagram posts and stories with Sked Social. Read more
Social Media News: Snapchat fact checks political ads, WT:Social launched, Facebook gets into memes and Twitter tests scheduling tool This week in social media news: Snapchat CEO said in an interview that the platform is fact checking political ads, Wikipedia co-founder launches a news focused social network, Facebook makes a meme app only released in Canada and Twitter is experimenting with scheduling Tweets. Read more
Social Media News: Instagram Reels and hiding likes globally, Facebook Pay and Popular Photos Instagram launches Reels in Brazil to compete with Tik Tok, Facebook Pay drops for users to make purchases through Messenger, Instagram starts testing hiding likes in the US and Facebook tests out an Instagram-like feature for their app. Read more
Social Media News: New Facebook logo, Twitter topics, donate button on Instagram Facebook drops a new logo, Twitter rolls out Topics and non-profits can now add a donate button straight to their Instagram profile. Read more
Instagram Live: Why you should go Live, tips and ideas Increase engagement and build relationships using Instagram Live. Here's our tips, tricks and ideas for going Live on Instagram. Read more
Social Media News: Twitter Bans Political Ads, Facebook News Tab, Instagram Bans Fictional Self Harm Another crazy week in the social media sphere! Twitter bans political ads, Facebooks launches News tab, Instagram bans fictional representations of suicide and self harm, people have been seeing an influx of ads on Twitter. Read more
Social Media News: Facebook Changes Organic Impression Calculations, Search Ads, Introduces IGTV Series This week in social media news: Facebook changes how they calculate organic impressions, search ads are now available to all advertisers, IGTV series is available for Creator accounts, Instagram and Facebook are clearly labeling false Read more
Why Slippin’ into the DMs is a Really Good Thing How sliding into the DMs can fast track your audience growth on Insta. Odette Barry, founder and director of Publicity and social media agency Odette & Co, shares her tips. Read more
Instagram Story Features Explained After Instagram launched some new story features recently, we figured we'd take that as an opportunity to talk all things story. Read more
Social Media News: Manage Shared Data on Instagram, Twitter Tests DM Reactions and Exempts World Leaders from Rules Instagram gives more control to users over data shared with third party apps, Twitter tests DM reactions and Twitter shares policies for world leaders on Twitter (or lack there of really). Read more
How To Remove Yourself from Tagged Posts on Instagram Hate getting tagged in random instagram posts? Here's how you can untag yourself from an Instagram post and keep your profile spam free! Read more
Social Media News: Instagram Gets Rid of Following Tab, Gets Dark Mode Instagram gets rid of the Following tab, updates camera and Create mode, launches feature to identify phishing emails, gets dark mode and works on Direct Messaging for desktop. Read more
Your Guide to Threads from Instagram How to get started using Threads from Instagram, the camera first, Close Friends messaging app. Tips and tricks to get you going with the app. Read more
How to “Restrict” Comments and Accounts on Instagram Three ways to quietly Restrict users on Instagram. Here's how you can shadow ban comments and Instagram accounts on the platform. Read more
Social Media News: Instagram Tests Product Launch Features, Threads This week in social media news: Instagram tests new product launch features and rolls out their "Restrict" feature, Twitter deals with some outages and Facebook launches Threads for Instagram. Read more