Twitter has announced the winners of its #BestOfTweets Awards for 2021, which includes a combination of statistic-based a peer-voted awards, across a range of categories, recognizing the most outstanding brand tweets and handles of the year, The big winner of the year was McDonalds, taking out ‘Best Brand Presence’ overall. As explained by Twitter: “In no small…
Gift giving is a lifetime activity, so it pays to learn how to do it well. That’s right, gift-giving isn’t an innate sense that you either have or you don’t; you can learn how to give great gifts. It can be anxiety-inducing for many, but with a variety of techniques and some effort, your gifts…
You’re ready to make some coffee, but one turn of the faucet handle snaps you wide awake because your water pipes are frozen, and the next step is to find ways to unfreeze your water pipes. If you wait long enough, will those frozen pipes thaw on their own? If they don’t, how careful do you…
Meta is joining a new push to help protect people against ‘revenge porn’, where intimate content featuring them is uploaded online without their consent. Meta has had processes in place to help detect and remove revenge porn since 2018, but now, the company is joining a coalition of assistance organizations and tech platforms on a new program…
At 1.4 billion citizens, and rising, and with tech adoption gaining momentum across the nation, India is a key focus for almost every social platform, with India now the leading region, in terms of total users, for Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Clubhouse. And LinkedIn, too, is seeing a big rise in Indian usage. As you can…
‘Tis the season for… disclosure? TikTok has today released its latest Content Removal Requests Report, which details all of the uploads that it took action against in the first half of the year due to violations of its community guidelines or other official and/or legal request. In addition to this, TikTok has also launched a new Transparency…
When Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey announced today his plans to step down as CEO, he didn’t go quietly. “There’s a lot of talk about the importance of a company being ‘founder-led,’” he wrote. “Ultimately I believe that’s severely limiting and a single point of failure. I’ve worked hard to ensure this company can break away from its…
Twitter’s new reply downvotes option could be made available to more users very soon, with reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong recently spotting this introductory screen in the back-end code of the app. As you can see here, the new intro screen outlines how reply downvotes work – which are not designed to be a dislike option, as such,…
This is a somewhat convenient study finding from Meta, given the more recent restrictions in audience data gathering as a result of Apple’s ATT update. Today, Meta has published a new report which looks at the performance impacts of broad, demographic-based targeting for CPG ad campaigns, versus interest targeting strategies, which are more honed in on specific…
Snapchat’s looking to expand its eCommerce credentials with a major showcase of its evolving AR shopping tools, tied into Black Friday, which marks the beginning of the final shopping push of the year. Snapchat’s partnered with a range of big-name brands on several AR-focused shopping initiatives, the biggest of which being its ‘Snap Holiday Market’,…