Xitter Is Losing Anglophone Users In the UK and US
Masterful gambit, sir.
Instagram Launches New Content Personaliztion Tools
Go nuts.
Hire Well. Trust Your People. Let Them Cook.
Learn it. Live it. Love it.
Harris Campaign/Dems No Longer Ignoring WhatsApp
The Harris campaign is launching a WhatsApp channel. It’s long overdue.
Kamala Harris Is Winning TikTok With Authenticity
This is how you do it.
New YouGov Social Media Study Goes ‘Beyond the Feed’
Big new YouGov report on social usage patterns is worth your time, especially if you’re chasing Gen Z.
Can Anyone Trust X Usage Numbers? Should They? Probably Not
X has shared a range of mismatched usage stats to different stakeholders at different times and they never add up.
Meta Nixes Dynamic Creative, Say Hello to Flexible Ads
Dynamic Creative is dead at Meta. Say hello to Flexible ads.
Instagram Algo Now Prioritizes Original Content Over Aggregators
Aggregator accounts sharing reposted content are going to be removed from Instagram’s recommendations.
Threads Rolls Out Hashtag Functionality…Without the Hashtag
Threads apes Twitter again, with a few twists.
Twitter Bringing Back The Link Previews They Killed Just Last Month
That was quick.
You Can Now Post Threads On Threads
You can post actual threads on the platform they named “Threads” now.
Twitter/X Rolls Out Evil New Ad Product That Can’t Be Blocked Or Reported
Unblockable, anonymous chumbox sludge coming to your feed very soon.
Celebrity twitter is mostly sports twitter
Celebrity Twiiter is mostly sports Twitter
The Broadcast-ification of Social Media
Not that I’m happy about it, but I agree with what Jake Levine is saying in this post at the Nieman Journalism Lab about how the large social networks are becoming something much more familiar to late adopters and the brands and marketers that want to reach them.
The Web We’ve Lost
A really fantastic look at what we’ve lost from the early social web