With the 2020 US Presidential Election looming, Facebook and its efforts to remove coordinated influence activity are becoming ever more important, and no doubt many will be watching the platform’s monthly Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior reports to spot any signs of potential concern ahead of the November poll. This week, Facebook has released its August update of malicious accounts…
TikTok has announced a new integration with Teespring which will enable TikTok creators to sell merchandise that they’ve designed directly to their fans within the app. As reported by The Verge: “Thousands of TikTok creators have already partnered with Teespring to start creating merchandise they can sell to their followers. The integration will allow “creators to create their…
Twitter and its trending topics lists can be problematic for various reasons. Sometimes Twitter’s algorithm will highlight offensive terms, sometimes the trends amplify divisive issues, and sometimes – maybe a lot of the time – it’s just not very clear exactly why a certain word or phrase is trending at all. Which makes you tap…
While Facebook continues to push its Watch video platform in the hope of taking a bigger share of the digital video pie, gamer-focused platform Twitch is also looking to expand on its content options, as it grows its audience, and broadens its potential. Over the past year, Twitch has seen a significant risen in its ‘Just Chatting’…
No doubt you’ve heard this before, but the video is the best performing content type across all social platforms, and Twitter is no exception. According to research, Tweets with video see 10x more engagement than those without, while Promoted Tweets with videos save more than 50% on cost-per-engagement. If you can create video content, you should – and…
Amid the COVID-19 lockdowns across the world, remote work has become a key focus, with millions of professionals finding new ways to maintain focus and productivity outside the office environment. And that, logically, has to lead to many seeking out advice and guidance to help them maximize their WFH effort. That focus is reflected in…
I’m not sure about the potential of LinkedIn Stories as yet. After initially launching the new option in Brazil back in April, LinkedIn then followed that up with steady expansions into France, the Netherlands, and UAE over the next month (May), then Australia a month after that (June). But then the roll-out stopped, with no new…
After giving users to capability to export their posted photos and videos to Google Photos last December – the first step in its broader Data Portability Initiative – Facebook is now also facilitating the transfer of your Facebook visual content to Dropbox and Koofr, as it continues to explore new options in this respect. As explained by Facebook: “We’ve long believed…
TikTok has added a new feature which enables users to re-use snippets of other people’s video clips, in order to create responses and remixes on the theme. As explained by TikTok: “Stitch allows users the ability to clip and integrate scenes from another user’s video into their own. Like Duet, Stitch is a way to reinterpret and add…
So what’s the latest on the TikTok takeover stakes? With the US Government’s September 15th deadline drawing ever-near, reports earlier in the week suggested that TikTok owner ByteDance had decided on a winning bid, and that an announcement was imminent. But complications arising from the Chinese Government’s newly imposed rules on the export of technological advancements, including digital…