Social Media Twitter Officially Rolls Out ‘Go Live with Guests’ Option The new ‘Live Guests’ option will allow viewers to apply to take part in the conversation, with their avatar appearing on-screen (when permitted to join by the streamer), and their streaming audio available to all viewers. It seems to be a step behind other […]
Social Media LinkedIn Acquires Data Personalization Platform Drawbridge to Improve Ad Targeting The professional social network has this week announced that it’s acquiring data analytics company Drawbridge in order to utilize Drawbridge’s advanced personalization AI, and further refine LinkedIn’s targeting capacity. Drawbridge’s system utilizes advanced machine learning – “on 100 billion edges” – in order […]
Social Media Instagram Adds Alternate Stories Color Notifier for Pride Month To mark Pride Month 2019, Instagram is adding a new rainbow color ring for Stories which include a Pride-related hashtag. The new option, as noted, will be activated by relevant hashtags, turning your Stories activation border in a multi-colored circle, as opposed to the […]
Social Media Facebook Will Reportedly Launch its ‘GlobalCoin’ Cryptocurrency Next Year Facebook’s plan, is to build its own transaction network which would facilitate funds transfers across borders, without the need for deals with local banks and/or financial regulators. That could enable Facebook to become a global marketplace, with users in all regions able to quickly […]
Social Media Instagram Adds Support for Landscape Videos in IGTV Instagram has announced that IGTV publishers will be able to upload horizontal format videos to IGTV, straying from its initial focus on more immersive, vertical viewing. IGTV was essentially built to tap into the rising consumption of vertical video, largely popularized by Snapchat. And while […]
Marketing Google’s indexing issue is now resolved – new content being indexed It appears that the search engine had some sort of issue getting new content into their index. So either Google had a crawling issue where they weren’t able to crawl new content, or more likely Google was crawling new content but was not […]
Social Media Instagram Continues to Work on New Option to Share a Link to an Individual Story Instagram continues to work on its option for sharing your Instagram Story via a unique link, with reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong spotting a new variation of the share option in the back-end of the app’s code. […]
Social Media Instagram Re-Vamps IGTV to Better Align with Rising Consumption Trends Instagram has this week given the format of IGTV a refresh, which, as noted by TechCrunch, is more aligned with Snapchat and rising short-video tool TikTok. Instagram has done away with the categories and the lower screen, horizontal feed of videos, opting for […]
Social Media Facebook Announces Two New Algorithm Updates Aimed at Improving On-Platform Engagement The Social Network has announced two News Feed algorithm updates this week, one focused on increasing the prevalence of posts from your closest friends, and the other aimed at reducing shallow, click-bait style content in feeds. Since the implementation of the News […]
Social Media Facebook Implements New Restrictions on Who Can Go Live to Stop the Spread of Disturbing Content In the wake of the Christchurch terror attacks, in which the perpetrator broadcast his crimes live on Facebook, The Social Network scrambled to remove the footage, with various users posting clips, and/or variations of them, in quick […]
