Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard

Food & travel writer living on Martha’s Vineyard, giving you all my favorite food suggestions, all while managing social over at ✨

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

This is my current food favorites list if you’re coming to #MarthasVineyard. Save this, like this, RT this to share.

[annie-mai @anniemaisocial]

Social media updates you NEED to know:

👏 TikTok has (finally) introduced an “Upload Cover Image” option for videos.

🎧 YouTube adds an option for creators to save music from their Shorts feed.

🚫 X, FKA Twitter, is testing an option that would allow users to block links in post replies.

📝 Instagram has expanded its Notes feature to Reels and Feed posts.

📈 X, FKA Twitter, has launched Trend Genius Ads and using AI, it’ll be able to identify hot topics, and align ad placements within relevant mentions.

👀 Instagram is testing the DM button being in the middle of the navigation tab, where the create post button currently is. And it looks like the create post icon would move to the top, next to the notifications icon.

🤭 Facebook has made a historic move and has decided to go back to one of its older names TheFacebook. Turns out "Facebook" wasn't cleaner. If you know, you know. (This is the fake update for all folks who steal Annie-Mai's content).

🎵 TikTok has partnered with DistroKid, an independent music distribution service, which allows members to create their official TikTok Artist Accounts directly from the DistroKid dashboard.

🤖 Meta has launched a new AI feature called “Imagine Me” which creates an image based off of a photo and a prompt like “Imagine me as a Tim Burton character”.

ICYMI last week:

- Instagram now lets users add up to 20 songs in a single Reel.
- Threads is testing a media re-share option that credits the original poster.
- TikTok has announced a new partnership with Eventbrite, allowing users to promote event in-stream (appears like TikTok Shop links do).

And that's all for now folks. As usual, the sources are in the thread. See you next week for more of The Social Tea 👋

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

If a season flies by so quickly (how is it May already?!), you’re telling me life goes just as fast?!

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

Good morning @VisitMV 🫡 Aalia’s in OB is back open!

[annie-mai @anniemaisocial]

Social media updates you NEED to know:

👀 Instagram has ACTUALLY updated its algorithm and how it ranks content to give “all creators a more equal chance”

📲 Twitch has launched it’s TikTok-style discovery feed and is rolling it out to all users

👩‍💻 X (Twitter) could soon be hiding all action buttons, users would have to tap and hold on a post to bring up like/share/reply buttons

🫣 Did your Instagram analytics show you that you lost a worrying amount of followers? In some cases, almost all of them? Well thankfully, it’s not real. And it was a glitch, as confirmed by Adam Mosseri

💸 TikTok Shop onboarded 6M sellers between July-December 2023

🌱 Instagram confirmed LAST WEEK that its releasing a brand new offering called Touch Grass, which is a daily notification that encourages users to go touch grass (this is for the folks who steal my updates, ily)

📌 Pinterest is now up to 518M monthly active users, up to 12% YoY

🤨 Instagram is working on ‘Clear’ mode for Reels (like on TikTok)

🚫 WhatsApp boss claims tens of millions of people still use WhatsApp in countries where it is banned… (If TikTok does get banned in the US, I wonder how many people would do the same)

And that's all for now folks. Bit of a boring week if I'm honest. Have you seen anything wildly interesting? Pls? Anything? Anyway, see ya'll next Wednesday for more social tea 👋🖤

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

@thesaltedtable Banoffee pie 🫡

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

👀👏🏽🫡

[Monica Lewinsky (she/her) @MonicaLewinsky]

you wouldn’t last an hour in the asylum where they raised me.

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

@shan_WOW_ Whoa tell us more

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

At the @VisitMA Governor’s Conference on Travel and Tourism! #MAGovConf24

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

@ashjeanmason I can’t even 🙄

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

Had a great breakfast sandwich this weekend! @7aFoods #marthasvineyard

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

Loved how Jason Sudeikis pronounced Leo Messi’s name / not LEE-oh but LEH-o. 👏🏽🏈

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

@HeyRatty lol every time I type it, I'm like.. will this be the time I get a client banned on social? 👀

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

Tails.

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

Six captains per team?! Seems like a bit much, no? #SuperBowl2024

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

@shan_WOW_ wow.

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

This

[Dev Machette @DevMachette_]

Being an internet person is so weird bc people who have followed you forever think that they’re entitled to telling you the most off-base things they think they know about you based on the two minutes of your life you post a day.

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

Whyyyyyyyyy

[Amanda Goetz @AmandaMGoetz]

Dear .heic - why do you exist?

[Marnely Murray | Martha’s Vineyard @Marnely_Murray]

Dear God: never allow Instagram to let other people know when we screenshot their stuff. Please, I beg you. 👀🙃

[Brooklin Nash @realBrookNash]

Is it “for fuck’s sake” or “for fucks’ sake”?

It’s for work so it has to be professional.

[Charles Hunter III @thesaltedtable]

sea salt buttermilk biscuits.👌🏾