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 🤓
BLUESKY TEMPORARILY HALTS SIGN UPS
Bluesky is pausing new signups temporarily to try and resolve performance issues due to an influx of new users coming in after Twitter introduced rate limits.
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TWITTER ANNOUNCES UPDATED TWEETDECK
One key concern that’s keeping advertisers away from Elon Musk’s Twitter 2.0 is that hate speech is on the rise, with Twitter saying they are now addressing these concerns.
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META’S NEW APP THREADS IS HERE!
Meta’s new Twitter-esque message board app – which is seemingly going to be called ‘Threads’ – has appeared in the Google Play Store in some regions.
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YOUTUBE HYPERLINKED KEYWORDS
YouTube’s launching a new test that will see search hyperlinks added to certain keywords within YouTube comments, as a means to drive improved discovery.
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DATA SCRAPPING TWITTER RESTRICTIONS
Twitter has taken the extreme step of restricting users from viewing tweets, in an effort to address what Elon Musk describes as “extreme levels of data scraping”.
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PINTEREST’S NEW EMAIL SCANNING SYSTEM
Pinterest is experimenting with a new process, which it hopes could offer a solution for improved ad targeting in the app: scanning your email inbox to customise your Pinterest experience.
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NEW INSTAGRAM COLLABORATOR RULES
Instagram has now extended the capacity for users to include up to three collaborators on any in-feed post or reel.
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META POSTS A NEW GUIDE TO REELS
Meta releases a concise ‘Reels Creative Mini-Manual’ with valuable tips to enhance your reels creativity and leverage current usage trends.
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