Social Media News: Instagram Adds New Boomerang Features and Tests Desktop DMs, Facebook Accused of Pushing out Competitors in Class Action Suit Instagram updates it's Boomerang features to help compete with TikTok's editing capabilities, Instagram officially starts testing for Direct Messaging on desktop and a group of mobile app developers have filed a class action complaint against Facebook accusing them of pushing out competitors by banning them from using their API. Read more
Social Media News: Twitter Conversation Participants, Facebook Will Allow Users to See Fewer Political Ads, A Browser Extension to Unhide Instagram Likes and More This week in social media news: Twitter gives users more control over their conversations, Facebook features to see fewer political ads are launching soon, Facebook updates their Privacy Checkup, Twitter offers more resources to researchers, Read more
Supporting animals affected by the Australian bushfires Climate change and other environmental factors have caused Australia to have one of the worst bush fire seasons on record. These fires have devastated communities across Australia, causing the loss of property, belongings and tragically Read more
Social Media News: TikTok Builds a Deepfake Maker, Twitter Improves Topics and Lists and Snapchat Acquires AI Factory TikTok secretly builds a deepfake maker for the app but it hasn't been released yet, Twitter focuses on improving Topics and Lists and Snapchat acquires AI Factory for $166 million. Read more
Social Media News: Instagram Minimum Age, Twitter Bans APNGs, Twitter Bug Matches Phone Numbers to Users and More Instagram launches a feature so users can add a minimum age that users have to be to see their content, Twitter bans animated PNGs after a prior attack on the Epilepsy Foundation, an Android bug on Twitter allowed a researcher to match 17 million phone numbers to users' accounts, and Twitter appears to be working on a better search user interface. Read more
Social Media News: Instagram introduces Layouts, Brand Collabs Manager, bans certain branded content and more Instagram adds feature to make users pause when posting offensive captions, adds Layouts for Instagram Stories, bans branded content for certain products and introduces Brand Collabs Manager to select Instagram users. Also, over 267 million Facebook users' personal info has been compromised. Read more
Social Media News: Twitter decentralization project, Live Photos as GIFs on Twitter, Youtube updates harassment policy, Star Wars comes to Messenger Twitter announces that they will fund a project to develop a decentralized social network standard, users can now turn iOS Live Photos into GIFs on Twitter, Youtube updates their harassment policy and Facebook partnered with Disney to add Star Wars themes to Messenger. Read more
Social Media News: Facebook Photo Sharing Tool, Twitter Privacy Center, Instagram Birthday Update and More This week in social media news: Facebook releases a tool to share videos and photos to Google Photos, Twitter launches a Privacy Center as a resource for users to get information, Instagram is asking for date of birth and adding message controls to better protect younger audiences and Facebook is suing a Chinese company for ad fraud and cloaking. Read more
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
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: 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
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
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
Social Media News: Facebook Hiding Likes, Twitter Bans Financial Scams, Facebook and Politicians Facebook starts hiding likes, Twitter updates their policies to ban financial scams, Facebook says that politicians are exempt from the third party fact checking program and Twitter rolls out multiple timelines. Read more
Social Media News: Facebook Video Tools, Twitter Hides Replies This week in social media news: Facebook rolls out new video features, Instagram and Facebook make new rules regarding diet/weight loss/cosmetic surgery posts and Youtube updates their requirements for "verified" accounts. Read more
Social Media News: Facebook/Instagram Test Shopping Feature, Twitter Playbook Facebook and Instagram are testing a new shopping feature that would allow businesses to run organic shopping posts as ads, Twitter releases Agency playbook for marketers, and Facebook updates their Community Standards. Read more