Clubhouse Adds New Topic Options

Based on results and current observations, discovery seems to play a key role in maximizing audio social take-up, which is something that continuously challenges both Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces. These two distinct audio-social channels have faced various challenges that are rooted in providing users with the most  relevant broadcasts in real-time. It’s that struggle in […]

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TikTok: Expanded Tipping and Video Gifts

TikTok just keeps on expanding its suite of creator monetization tools with the addition of video tipping and virtual gifts for regular uploads, on top of live-streams within the app. Just to clarify things, live tipping and sending digital gifts have been available to a select few users via its ‘Creator Next’ program since last year. This update […]

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Facebook Adds New Trend Insights in Creator Studio

Facebook’s adding a new element to its Creator Studio with rollout of what it calls the ‘Inspiration Hub’. The Hub aims to help provide more content insight by essentially highlighting trending content and Hashtags in categories that are, in some form or way, related to your Business Page. Matt Navarra (really, someone should nominate this guy for an Oscar […]

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LinkedIn Adds New ‘Creator Mode’ Tools

It’s good news for LinkedIn enthusiasts because ‘Creator Mode’ is getting a much-deserved boost. LinkedIn Live Access is being added to those who have Creator Mode enabled, as well as a new newsletter option that helps creators stay in touch with their audience. ‘Creator Mode’ Activated Starting off with LinkedIn Live, the new feature was once only […]

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Twitter Regulatory Updates on Unauthorized Use

Twitter is looking to level-up its regulatory prowess by improving the enforcement of policies that revolve around the misuse of people’s private content. Twitter looks to expand its ‘Private Information Policy’ to now also cover the use of “private media”, which relate to images, or any user-originated content, that are shared via Tweet without the originator’s consent. […]

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Facebook In Danger of Selling GIPHY

Facebook is once again doing battle with regulations, and this time, the fight is with the UK. Against Facebook in this round is the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), ruling that Facebook must sell GIPHY, the leading GIF platform which Facebook had acquired in May 2020, due to GIPHY’s alleged potential to reduce competition between social platforms […]

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Twitter Prepping for Broader Launch of Reply Downvotes

Despite the heavy news of Jack Dorsey’s resignation, Twitter does have something new, in the form of an improved reply downvotes option, which could be made available to more users soon. Reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong first spotted this introductory screen in the back-end code of the app. Based on Jane’s Tweet, you can see that the new introductory screen […]

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TikTok Tests New Profile Tagging Option

Well here’s good news, TikTok is trying out new ways to further boost engagement on the platform by testing a new option that allows you to tag other profiles in your videos and clips. On paper, it sounds pretty neat, but how exactly would this pan out? Isn’t it similar to the ‘Mention’ feature that’s prevalent on […]

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Jack Dorsey Resigns from Twitter

For the past 2 years, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had been under extreme pressure. As of today, some of that pressure has been relieved, but along with it, unfortunately, is his title as CEO. Jack must have Tweeted this during the weekend. Such a simple yet cryptic Tweet definitely held with it a more profound meaning. […]

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Twitter’s New Seasonal Themed App Icons

We have more good news for Twitter Blue subscribers. Soon, those who have Twitter Blue subscriptions will have access to some new festive, holiday features, including a new set of app icons discovered in Twitter’s own back-end code. The new set of icons are unique in that they align with various seasonal trends. Ever reliable app researcher Alessandro […]

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