Your social media news for January 23, 2023:
Meta
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Meta has updated its Accounts Center by centralizing cross-app user, privacy, and data settings, including ad controls.
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Meta and Shutterstock have partnered to utilize Shutterstock’s extensive stock imagery database to help inform Meta’s AI image generation capabilities.
- Facebook’s new Page Recommendation feature lets you know if your page has any violations that are limiting its reach.
- As of February 6, you’ll no longer be able to link your news subscriptions to Facebook.
- Instagram has launched several new features, including “Quiet Mode” to encourage breaks from the apps, better content control options, and enhanced parental supervision tools.
- Twitter has either “changed” or simply “enforced” developer terms, banning many third-party apps from accessing its API. (See dev terms here.)
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Community Notes will now accompany any Quote Tweets of posts that have them.
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Blue for Business is being replaced by “Verification for Organizations” (you can sign up for the waitlist here).
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…and those Verified Organizations will likely have a new tab showing Affiliates such as employees and other brand sub-accounts.
- Twitter has made its Bookmarks feature more accessible within the tweet interface.
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Notice some broken features on Twitter? You’re not alone…here’s a list.
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Twitter is offering generous ad spend matches to lure advertisers back to the platform.
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Over three dozen companies in sports, news, and entertainment have signed content sponsorship deals with Twitter.
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Non-logged-in users will no longer be able to choose the “Latest” tab for search results.
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Twitter has launched an Annual Plan payment option for Twitter Blue.
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A demonstration of Twitter’s upcoming 4,000-character tweet limit in action from Alessandro Paluzzi.
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Twitter plans to refine Search to be more lenient for spelling mistakes and typos.
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Twitter is working on a Video Chat feature.
- LinkedIn is working on a separate Celebrations feed for updates like job changes, work anniversaries, and birthdays.
YouTube
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YouTube has added location tagging and video scrubbing to Shorts.
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YouTube is testing a hub of free ad-supported streaming channels within the platform.
TikTok
- TikTok has a new “Save” button for videos.
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TikTok is expanding its “State Controlled Media” label to over 40 countries.
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TikTok is trying to appease U.S. regulators with greater algorithmic transparency.
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A new TikTok ad encourages using the platform as a search engine
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TikTok is working on a podcast feature.
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There are new sound effects for TikTok Live.
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WhatsApp now lets you message notes and reminders to yourself.
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WhatsApp is making it easier to block spam, businesses, and even contacts.
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WhatsApp is beta-testing voice notes in status updates.
Misc
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Discord has purchased the anonymous poll app Gas.
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Amazon has a new TikTok-esque app called Inspire—and they’re paying creators to test it out.