Social snapshot – 22.02.2023

February 22, 2023

It’s that time of the week again! Here is a snapshot of the latest happened in the world of social media:

Twitter adds alerts for Community Notes

The network announced earlier this week that they’re rolling out a new update for its Community Notes on tweets users have previously engaged with.

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Instagram’s testing user location listings on reels

Instagram’s introducing a new way to provide better transparency on Reels content, by listing the location of the profile that created the clip on the video itself.

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And Meta’s shifts UK users to US agreements following Brexit

An update from Meta– the platform has announced that UK-based users are in a process of being moved onto US user agreements, as opposed to listing them under the Irish subsidiary.

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Snapchat reaches 750 million users per month

The social platform announced a big jump from 600 million active users last year to 700 million this year.

Find out more here.

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