This feed is created by checking out the newsroom pages of all the major social media platforms, and other trusted websites. Scroll through the headlines or check out details of changes, by individual platform. All the updates are recorded here, so you don’t ever need to worry about missing something. Subscribe here for a weekly news round-up, straight to your email inbox.
Source: Social Media Today A handy one for LinkedIn Premium members, with LinkedIn launching a new integration with Calendly that will enable easy meeting registrations via your LinkedIn profile. Continue reading
Source: Techcrunch Meta’s social network Threads, an X competitor with more than 320 million monthly active users, is now rolling out new features related to topics, reply controls, and video playback in the app, among other things. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today YouTube’s testing out a handy new option for Shorts editing, which will highlight where any elements that you add to a clip, like captions and stickers, are placed relative to the actual Shorts UI, and what may interfere with your...
Source: Social Media Today TikTok’s rolling out a new account security dashboard, which will provide a simplified overview of all of your key privacy and safety settings in a single screen. Continue reading
Source: Meta In January, Meta announced that we will end our third party fact checking program and move to a crowd-sourced Community Notes approach, starting in the United States. On March 18th, we will begin testing this new approach by allowing contributors...
Source: Social Media Today Snapchat has launched a new form of its popular AR Lens feature, with “Video Gen AI Lenses,” which are custom created animations that align with your video clips. Continue reading
Source: Socila Media Today TikTok’s rolling out some new tools to help parents manage their kids’ use of the app, and ensure that they are indeed taking breaks from TikTok’s addictive, never-ending ‘For You’ feed. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today A quick note on LinkedIn’s Predictive Audiences, which utilize AI modeling to build audience profiles for you, based on a combination of your own data and LinkedIn’s insights. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today Good news for those who are sick of their Pinterest feed being inundated with AI-generated trash: Pinterest has now officially implemented a new policy to label AI-generated images. Continue reading
Source: Techcrunch Meta’s Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile on the social network. Instead of only advertising to profile visitors the sort of topics you might post about, the new interests...
Source: Techcrunch X is actively working to expand the reach of xAI’s Grok model to more users on the platform. Multiple users noted today that people can now mention Grok in replies and ask a question to get an explanation about a post. Continue reading...
Source: Techcrunch YouTube on announced a new premium subscription tier called Premium Lite, which will allow users to watch “most” videos ad-free for $7.99 per month. Continue reading