Twitter

Twitter Updates Reply Controls to Enable Users to Delineate Who Can Reply to their posts

Twitter has added a handy new update to its reply control options, which it first rolled out in August last year, enabling users to delineate who can reply to their posts. As you can see here, with the original update, Twitter enabled users to choose who could reply to their tweets – ‘Everyone’, ‘People you…

Expert

Facebook has some New Additions for Groups, Including ‘Expert’ Badges and Automatic Invites for Page Fans

Facebook has announced some new additions for groups, including recognized community experts, new ways to attract members based on their expertise, and auto-invites for engaged followers of associated Pages. The main new addition is a new ‘Group Expert’ designation, which provides another way to highlight top contributors in your groups. As explained by Facebook: “There are more…

Re-Share

Instagram is Testing a New ‘Re-Share’ Sticker for Stories to Encourage More Thoughtful Feed Post Sharing

This will no doubt ruffle some feathers within the Instagram community. Today, Instagram is launching a new test of a ‘Re-Share’ sticker for Instagram Stories, which will enable people to re-share feed posts that they’ve recently viewed in the app via a new, dedicated sharing format, as opposed to simply re-pasting the entire feed post into a…

Google

Google has Outlined Coming eCommerce Advances, Including Improved AR Product Displays

Google has outlined a range of coming eCommerce tools, as it looks to help facilitate expanded user interest in online shopping, and changing search behaviors around product listings within its products. And these additions could have a big impact. According to Google, over a billion shopping sessions are now conducted across its apps every single day. The…