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All the latest social media news and feature updates

Luan Wise

All the social media updates you need to know – in one place.

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.

Top Tip: Pin a Tweet

Top Tip: Pin a Tweet

  Are you taking advantage of one of Twitter’s most powerful features – the pinned Tweet? If not, you could be losing out on valuable promotional opportunities. Pinning a tweet does more than just bump a post to the top of your profile; it saves a quality tweet...

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The six types of social media user

The six types of social media user

  At the end of 2011, loyalty management firm Aimia conducted research in the USA (‘Staring at the Sun: Identifying, Understanding and Influencing Social Media Users’) that identified six social media ‘personas’. These are still, I believe, relevant today. They...

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A brief history of social media

A brief history of social media

Social media has been evolving since Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Six Degrees, launched in 1997, is considered to be the first social network (it closed in 2001). It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users, but...

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How to define your key messages

How to define your key messages

From prehistoric cave paintings to big-budget Hollywood movies, the desire to tell and hear stories is an important part of the human experience, and a valuable way to remember sequences of events. As children, we learn through stories. A story gives people a reason...

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Social Media Is NOT A Strategy

Social Media Is NOT A Strategy

    The word ‘strategy’ is so often misused. Just because something’s important (or new and shiny) doesn’t automatically follow that it needs a strategy. The origin of strategy and tactics lie in military definitions. Strategy represents the overall...

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Struggling to keep up with the ever-changing world of social media?

Each month Luan Wise and Andy Lambert host a FREE live online event to walk you all through the latest changes.

Our next event is 5th December, 11am (UK). Register your place, here

You’ll hear us talk about the latest data and trend reports, plus a round-up of all the feature changes for LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and more.

 

To view previous events, check out our playlist on YouTube: https://bit.ly/Social_Media_Updates

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