Social Snapshot – 27.04.2022

April 27, 2022

Take a look at the latest happenings in the world of social media with this week’s social snapshot👇🏻

Instagram is testing ‘templates’ for Reels

Instagram is trying out a new way to help users create more engaging Reels, with templates, which creators can follow and replace clips with their own.

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Elon Musk buys Twitter

If you hadn’t heard the news already, where have you been!? Twitter’s board met at the weekend to vote on accepting Elon Musk’s $44b takeover offer.

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LinkedIn adds new options for profiles & mobile editing

LinkedIn has released a bunch of new features, including a showcase link on your profile, video trimming on mobile, and analytics for group posts.

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Meta Adds New Creative Tools to Spark AR Studio

Meta has added new creative tools within its Spark AR Studio, which includes more audio options, new depth mapping features, plus improvements in access and controls for occlusions.

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Latest Posts

Meta has started rolling ads into Threads timelines globally from late January 2026. That’s the moment Threads stops being a side app and becomes a paid, recommendation-led public square. Threads has passed 400 million monthly active users, and Meta has put daily actives at around 150 million. The strategic implication for B2C and B2B is the same; distribution gets easier to buy, credibility gets harder to earn. Threads rewards coherence in public conversation, how you answer, how you sound, how specific you are. Treat it as a trust surface, because that’s where decisions get shaped now.

Feeds are getting tired of “perfect”. A lot of the most interesting work going into 2026 is reacting against hyper-digital polish with visuals that feel more handled: scanned textures, mismatched elements, collecting layouts, and deliberate “imperfections” that make the human hand visible again. That matters for social, because audiences clock…

I don’t read a lot of marketing books cover to cover. Most get a flick-through, a speed read (or even a Blinkist), then quietly shelved. But Marketing & Psychology by Dr Tom Bowden-Green and Luan Wise, I read it properly. With a…