GoDaddy

Google Announces New Partnership with GoDaddy Web Stores to Expand eCommerce Opportunities

As part of its ongoing effort to expand its eCommerce offerings, and align with the rising interest online shopping, Google has today announced a new partnership with GoDaddy, which will enable GoDaddy online web store managers to integrate their product listings across Google’s surfaces, at no additional cost. As per Google: “GoDaddy merchants can now get discovered across Search,…

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Instagram Says Auto Caption Tools for Feed Posts are Coming Soon

This will be welcome news for many Instagram creators. In September last year, Instagram added a new auto-captions option for IGTV uploads, improving accessibility, which it then expanded to Stories in May this year, enabling users to easily add on-screen text to their video frames. Now Instagram is looking to make its auto caption tools available…

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…

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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…