SOCIAL SNAPSHOTS – 12.04.2023

April 12, 2023

Get ready to be the life of the virtual party with our weekly social snapshot, filled with all the latest and greatest social media updates to keep you in the loop and on top of your game!

Get started with Instagram Direct tips.

Instagram shares tips for businesses on using direct chats to stay in touch with their audience.

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Raising questions about ‘Free Speech’ in the app.

Twitter disables likes, replies, and retweets if a tweet has Substack links, users have been seeing warnings pop-up, up in both apps, when trying to link to the other.

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Bye bye blue checkmarks 👋🏻

Elon Musk announces the actual date for the removal of all legacy checkmarks will be April 20th.

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TikTok launches new push on In-Stream purchasing 🚀

Following the success of its shopping initiatives in China, TikTok’s currently inviting selected retailers to join its in-app shopping push.

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Latest Posts

The era of UGC driving rumbles on – with LinkedIn now saying that content generated by individual profiles is proving more effective for B2B lead/sales generation than business pages. Yes, people buy from people so we can understand this logic. We’re more likely to engage with a personal post than…
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You know what’s oddly cheering. Most brands have loads of proof that they’re worth buying. By proof I mean the specifics that make a claim believable when someone repeats it to a friend, or a colleague, or their partner on the sofa. Customer stories with detail. Before-and-after that feels properly…
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If you work in social media, staying informed isn’t optional. It’s part of the job. Trends, platform changes, cultural moments, crises, memes, conversations, they all shape what we publish and how it’s received. Being aware of what’s happening in the world helps us create content that’s relevant, sensitive, and credible.
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