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Source: Techcrunch Meta announced in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now accepting sign-ups for its Community Notes program on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today YouTube’s announced an expansion of audio replies to comments, while it’s also added a new option that will enable creators to promote their Shorts to a broader audience in the app. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today Instagram’s rolling out a new element within its Partnership Ads that will enable brands to showcase a creator endorsement within a sponsored comment on a Partnership post Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today Meta’s controversial switch to a Community Notes model, while phasing out third-party fact-checking, is set to get underway very soon, with the company today posting a new overview of how Community Notes will function Continue...
Source: Social Media Today LinkedIn has added two new metrics for newsletter creators in the app, with “email sends” and “email open rates” now available via your newsletter analytics page, providing more ways to measure the performance of your communications....
Source: Social Media Today Live streams are a key element of TikTok’s broader in-app shopping push, with live-stream shopping now driving the majority of the revenue in the Chinese version of the app. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today LinkedIn has announced some updates to its ad targeting and attribution elements, in order to help marketers reach the right audiences with their ads, and demonstrate ROI from their efforts. Continue reading ...
Source: Instagram People use Instagram DMs all over the world to stay connected with friends and family daily. Today, we’re introducing message translations, new ways to share music, scheduled messages, pinned content and group chat QR codes to make it even...
Source: Techcrunch Hours after Elon Musk’s AI company xAI released the latest version of its AI model, Grok 3, X has significantly hiked the price for its top Premium+ subscription plan, which gives users access to the latest model, to almost $50 per month....
Source: Social Media Today Meta is making a change to its storage time for livestream broadcasts, in order to reduce its costs in maintaining video data. Which means that any livestream older than 30 days will soon be removed from the app. Continue...
Source: Techcrunch YouTube Shorts is integrating with Google DeepMind’s latest video model, Veo 2, allowing creators to generate AI video clips for their posts. Continue reading
Source: Social Media Today YouTube has announced an expanded release of its text-for-speech feature for Shorts, while it’s also launching a new series to help promote safer internet use among teens for Safer Internet Day as part of its latest feature update....