SOCIAL SNAPSHOTS – 12.04.2023

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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

Design and disability are so often discussed in terms of basic “accommodation” and “access,” yet my visit to the V&A’s Design and Disability exhibition completely shifted that perspective. Rather than framing disability as an issue to be fixed, the exhibition presents it as a culture, a rich set of identities, and a radical design force shaping practice from the 1940s right up to today.
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Lurkers are your biggest audience and they’re deciding in silence. They watch in feeds, sanity-check you in comments, communities and reviews, then repeat whatever proof is easiest to quote internally. That’s why social feels harder, it’s no longer a click machine, it’s an answer surface. Ofcom shows AI summaries are now common in search results, and YouTube remains the UK’s biggest social utility by reach and time spent. If your story is inconsistent, your evidence is scattered, or your customer proof is buried, lurkers can’t do the job of trusting you for you.
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Pinterest has rolled out a brand-new Media Planner inside its advertising tools, and it’s designed to make planning and managing Pin campaigns a whole lot simpler. In short? It gives you a clearer view of what you’re running, who you’re targeting, and what results you can expect…
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