The Week in Social
Welcome to ‘The Week in Social’ our team sharing the top stories for you every week on the latest trends, updates and insights in the social-first world! Stories shared by the 1000heads team.
WEEKLY READING LIST 🤓
INSTAGRAM NATIVE SCHEDULING
Similar to Facebook’s Content Creator, Instagram can schedule posts, including reels, natively in the platform’s app.
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LINKEDIN LINK STICKER
To help businesses drive traffic to their website, LinkedIn is adding a new stickers that allows creators to send their audience to an external landing page.
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END OF SOCIAL COMMERCE
Although social channels are integrating social commerce to their platforms, US and European audiences seem to dislike these features, threatening TikTok’s current directions.
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TWITTER FILM TREND INSIGHTS
Collaborating with Variety, Twitter uses their platform’s conversation data to track what movies are currently popular by launching the Variety Film Chart Chatter.
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LINKEDIN DISCOVER TAB
LinkedIn is testing new ‘Discover’ feeds to further facilitate their users in connecting with their industries or potential business interests.
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META AI BOT GO PUBLIC
Meta is launching BlenderBot 3, an AI based technology that is capable to search the internet about any topic when users are conversing with the bot
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SNAPCHAT FAMILY CENTRE
In relation to Snapchat’s efforts to increase safety for their younger users, the platforms adds a feature that allows parents to see who their children are interacting with within the platform.
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TWITTER INTEGRITY ENFORCEMENT
As the US midterms are coming up, Twitter is adding features, such as US Elections tab and profile label, to avoid potential of misuse of the platforms during the campaign period.
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