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Facebook is Testing a New Option to Cross-Post Facebook Stories to Instagram

While you’ve been able to cross-post your Instagram Story to Facebook stories for some time, you haven’t had the option to do the opposite, and post your Facebook Stories direct to Insta. That could be about to change, with Facebook now testing a new option to share your Facebook Stories to Instagram in your send settings, which could…

Twitter

Jack Dorsey Ready to Retain Twitter CEO Role amid Investor Group Challenge

It looks like Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will remain in the top job at the platform, at least for the time being. Last week, investment management firm Elliott Management Corp. announced that it had purchased a significant stake in Twitter and that it planned on using its newfound influence at the company to push for changes, including the…

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Facebook Launches New Business Resource Hub for those Organizations Impacted by Coronavirus

With Coronavirus spreading across the globe, more and more regions are being impacted by the various closures, shutdowns and quarantine measures that are being implemented to help contain the outbreak and limit its impacts. And while public health and safety is obviously the number one concern, the flow-on consequences for business will also be significant, with…

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LinkedIn Launches a New Series of Playlists on Spotify for Career Development Processes

I mean, I don’t really know what to say about this, but people have asked, so… LinkedIn recently launched a new series of playlists on Spotify to soundtrack your professional development in various areas. As you can see here, the playlists are split into different topics, including ‘Women at Work’, ‘Never Give Up’ and ‘Refine and Focus’…

VR

Facebook Starts User Testing of New ‘Horizon’ VR Social Platform

Facebook sees VR as the future of social media interaction, a future that Facebook wants to own in order to maintain its position on top of the social heap. And it’s working to do just that – after recently acquiring several top VR game developers an integrating them into its growing Oculus VR division, The…

Twitter

Twitter Lists as Alternate Feeds Option Is (Now Available) on Android Devices

This week Twitter brought the option to pin Twitter lists, and access them as swipeable, alternative feeds, to Android devices, providing another way to view your list streams. Twitter first launched the option on iOS last September, giving users another way to view tweet content and easier access to their lists. As with the iOS version,…

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Instagram Is Testing the Capability to Restrict Multiple Accounts at Once

After first launching its ‘Restrict’ option to help users better manage their comment streams last October, Instagram is now testing a new process that would enable people to Restrict multiple users in one action, direct from their comments listing. As you can see in this example, which was shared by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, the…

Facebook

Facebook Gives Its Main Function Menu a Blue Gradient Colorful Refresh

If you’ve tapped on the Facebook options menu in the mobile app in the last few days, you may have noticed this. The listing has been changed from the all-white layout to a blue gradient background, along with bubble tiles for each individual option, with alerts for recent activity beneath each. The team over at Android…

Twitter

Twitter Updates Rules on Hateful Conduct to help keep Twitter Conversations more Civil

Twitter has this week issued an update to its rules around hateful conduct, which it first launched last year. The rules are designed to help keep Twitter conversations more civil and set clear parameters around acceptable behavior on the platform. As per Twitter: “As a result, of months of conversations and feedback from the public and conversations with both internal and,…