social media updates you NEED to know 👇
📊 Instagram is allegedly working on the ability to add polls in comments
👀 Twitter now officially prioritises Verified accounts, announced by Elon Musk today (25th April)
💫 LinkedIn now allows you to highlight “Top Skills” in the About section of your profile
🔍 TikTok has added a new SEO feature called ‘Featured Answer’ which highlights the top answer for that search query, with written context
💸 Twitter announced that you HAVE to be subscribed to Twitter Blue, or Verified Organisations in order to continue running ads
🫣 Twitter seems to have reinstated blue checkmarks to celebrities, brands etc that haven’t paid for it
😳 Twitter gave Verification to a FAKE Disney profile, which was tweeting vile content before it got suspended
💬 Instagram’s Twitter alternative, Barcelona, is slowly taking shape. The app will be a “standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates.”
🥲 A bug in Meta’s ad system meant that some advertisers woke up on Sunday (23rd April) to a SIGNIFICANT overspend, with some ad buyers reporting CPMs going up by 200-500%
🙄 BeReal is allegedly working on “Bonus BeReal” which allows users to post two more times that day if they post on time
✨ TikTok now allows you to see real time analytics, seeing metrics for videos by hour and day
🎶 BeReal integrated with Spotify recently, but is allegedly working on an Apple Music integration too
🔗 TikTok looks like it could be introducing Link in Bio for registered TikTok Business accounts
And that's all for now folks! See ya'll next time 👋💜
Video editing tools I can't get enough of:
1. Descript - To record and transcribe
2. VEED - To add subtitles with character
3. InShot - To edit videos directly on my phone with ease
4. CapCut - To easily take part in TikTok trends
What else would you add to the list?
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