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New Twitter Misinformation Policy, TikTok Tests In-App Games, And Taylor Swift’s Honorary Doctorate
What’s new in social Twitter's New Policy For Crisis Misinformation No more lies. Twitter has just announced it will be implementing a new policy to prevent misinformation during a crisis from spreading on the app. Tweets that violate the policy will now be flagged...
Twitter Launches New Game, MTV Movie & TV Awards Nominees, and Instagram Welcomes NFTs
What’s new in social Instagram Brings NFTs To The App Soon enough, Instagram users will now be able to show off their NFTs on the app - and on a later date, on Facebook, too. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, uploaded a new update on his profile and said, "This week...
Twitter Introduces Twitter Circle, Instagram Feed’s New Look, TikTok’s Newest TikTok Pulse Feature, and Taylor Swift’s Suprise Music Drop
What’s new in social Close Friends, Except It's Twitter Twitter is introducing a new feature called "Twitter Circle." This feature allows users to choose 150 people from their followers to an inner circle. It's like Instagram's Close Friends feature. The feature will...
Instagram Tests New Features, Spotify Launches Video Podcasts, Twitter’s Edit Button, and Johnny Depp & Amber Heard’s Trial
What’s new in social Instagram Tests New 'Top Posts' Tab On a new test that Instagram is conducting, users will see more top posts and Reels when they click on a hashtag. And that means we could be saying farewell to the 'Recent' tab, which showed the most recent...
Snapchat introduces Dynamic Stories, Spotify launches Spotify Greenroom, and Chupa Chups Ice Cream in Australia
What’s new in social Dislike Comments On TikTok Privately TikTok is currently testing a new feature that lets its users dislike a comment. Much like the YouTube feature, the number of dislikes will be kept private as TikTok will use it instead to distinguish which...
Elon Musk Becomes Twitter Board Director, TikTok Launches Online University For Creators, and Las Vegas Lights Up In Purple For BTS
What’s new in social Let's Enrol At TikTok University You're getting schooled - by TikTok. Ready your papers because classes at the Creative Agency Partnerships (CAP) University by TikTok are starting soon. The CAP is a five-week program aiming to teach enrolees...
Messenger Introduces Shortcuts, TikTok is testing ‘Watch History’ and Lady Gaga and Liza Minnelli touch hearts at the Oscars
What’s new in social TikTok is testing a ‘Watch History’ feature We all know that feeling: You scroll past a hilarious TikTok, you can’t get it out of your head, you want to share it with your friends, but the next thing you know you can’t find it. Luckily, TikTok is...
Keyword Search on Twitter DMs, Instagram Feed Now Has Favourites, and What Really Happened Between Chris Rock and Will Smith
What’s New In Social? Your Instagram Feed, Your Rules Instagram introduced two new ways to view your feed, Following and Favourites. Nowadays, our regular feed will show posts, including suggested ones. Your Following page will feature posts strictly from the people...
Twitter Space tests out audio clips, TikTok is testing out the Stories feature, and Russia bans Instagram
What’s New in Social Let's face it; social media is a fast-paced industry. It would be best if you didn't miss the latest trends, so we're here with another blog post so you don't get left behind. Ready to get the latest news and social media updates? 💪 Twitter Space...
Meta released new features for Facebook groups, Instagram sets Creator Tags, and Pete Davidson finally speaks up
What’s New in Social Pinterest Announces New Shopping and Advertising Features Pinterest has announced several new updates and additions as part of its second annual 'Pinterest Presents' global advertiser summit, including improvements to in-stream shopping, promoted...
Here’s What You Should Know about TGA’s Influencer Ban
Influencer culture has always been a source of contention, but when the TGA made revisions with the new Code dealing with social media influencers, the debate erupted. The new rules released by the Therapeutic Goods Association states that they will 'crack down' on...
Twitter Rolls Out Video Playback Speed, YouTube Introduces New Features in 2022, And Kanye Calls Out Pete Davidson
What’s new in social #SaferInternetDay With Instagram Instagram celebrated Safer Internet Day. It's a day dedicated to helping people understand how to stay safe online. They took this day to announce the Request help from friends feature. On the #SaferInternetDay...
Meta Brings Avatars to Instagram, Downvoting Tweets Now Made Possible, and Stormi’s Baby Brother
What’s new in social Twitter Launches New Downvote Button Some Twitter users were greeted by a little arrow next to the like button last Thursday morning. Twitter has launched the new downvote button feature for tweet replies. What you downvote will not be public to...
Twitter tests Articles, Wordle moves to the Times and Rihanna is expecting
What’s new in social Twitter Tests Long Form “Articles” Feature Long gone are the days of 140 characters. Since 2016, Twitter has been thinking about enabling long-form posts. After releasing the 280 character limit and ‘Threads’ Twitter is now working on enabling...
Instagram tests new ‘edit grid’ option, vertical scrolling for Stories, private Stories likes and more
What’s New In Social Instagram is testing new ‘edit grid’ option Instagram is reportedly testing a new option which will allow users to rearrange their grid. The new option will allow users to reshuffle their video and images with enough flexibility to choose exactly...
The 5 Biggest Myths About Social Media Marketing
"When it comes to social media marketing, you don't have to post 3 times a day. It's never about how often you post but the quality of your content." - Janet Benson Amarhavwie, Social Media Manager Much has been said about social media marketing, and not all of it is...
Creating Strategies and What Organic Growth Means
Why we don't create strategies solely for follower growth On-screen, having over 100k+ or 1M on your Instagram banner is more appealing. However, most entrepreneurs and marketers solely focus on this and they result in buying followers. That is a big red flag in...
Twitter turns into TikTok, Instagram brings back the chronological feed, and BTS is taking a break
What’s new in social Messenger tests Split Payments Feature Messenger is starting to test a new feature that allows US users with a debit card linked to Facebook Pay to split bills with others in app. The test includes letting users select the Split Payments option in...
Youtube and Twitter Launch Livestream Shopping, Instagram Makes Stories Longer, and TikTok’s No Cry Onion Hack Actually Works
What’s New in Social Twitter Expands Private Information Policy Twitter expanded their existing privacy policy to include images or videos that can potentially violate a person's privacy. "When we receive a report that a Tweet contains unauthorized private media, we...
Instagram Introduces 2 New Hidden Gems, Youtube Makes Dislikes Private, and Twitter is Yaasifying anyone they can think of
What’s new in social YouTube Is Making Dislike Counts Private Though the thumbs down button will still be there, the dislike count will no longer be visible to users. Only the creators will be able to view them in their private video statistics. This is in line with...
Instagram introduces ‘Add Yours’ sticker, tests ‘Take a Break feature’ and Facebook says bye to its photo-tagging facial recognition system
WHAT’S NEW IN SOCIAL Instagram brings public threads to Stories with new 'Add Yours' sticker https://twitter.com/instagram/status/1455235802682646530 Instagram has rolled out a new 'Add Yours' sticker to Stories, which lets users...