Week ending July 26, 2019 ~ weekly social media updates to keep you in the know ~ This week Facebook, in the wake of reaching a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission over privacy breaches, has announced an agreement reached with the FTC to completely overhaul how the platform deals with private information. LinkedIn has added [...]
Week ending July 19, 2019 ~ weekly social media updates to keep you in the know ~ Twitter has been very busy this week, rolling out and announcing a slew of new and long-awaited features. The most obvious of which is the new Twitter layout for desktop, which is finally rolling out to all users. Another [...]
Week ending July 12, 2019 ~ weekly social media updates to keep you in the know ~ Facebook is taking a page out of Twitch's book with the addition of some new features to attract online content creators. 'Stars' are going to be a new mode of donations to give during streams. For $1.40 you can [...]
~ weekly social media updates to keep you in the know ~ Facebook is assembling a board to help with content decisions. This is probably related to the flak the platform has been getting regarding the kind of content it chooses to remove (or not). Have you been seeing those little 'top fan' banners over comments recently? [...]
~ weekly social media updates to keep you in the know ~ Facebook is implementing more new features to make groups more of an attraction. This time they'll be adding parameters that groups can put in place to auto-accept members if they fit certain criteria. Perhaps these parameters could be based on location, or a few [...]
~ weekly social media updates to keep you in the know ~ Facebook has been very active this week, implementing a 'post to group' option to businesses pages. This addition is just a small part of a larger push by the platform to increase the use of groups. Secondly, as of August 1st, Facebook will be [...]
~ weekly social media updates to keep you in the know ~ What's Happening in Social - Week ending June 15 LinkedIn is adding some initiatives for marketing and promotional efforts, so users can better understand how their connections interact with their content. The platform is launching an ad review program, wherein every month a piece [...]
~ weekly social media updates to keep you in the know ~ First, Facebook has updated their newsfeed algorithm to show more content related to pages and groups that a user follows, in addition to the usual updates from their friends. Secondly, a new feature called Avatars is being rolled out (in the same vein as [...]
~weekly social media updates to keep you in the know~ For Pride Month this year, Instagram is changing the color of the rings around a user’s profile picture that appear when a story is uploaded. In June, if you use a pride-related hashtag, that ring will turn rainbow-colored. Secondly, it looks like Instagram might be incorporating [...]
