Social Media

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Facebook to remove Gray Badges from verified pages on 30th October 2019

Chris Grant (he/him) October 25, 2019 0 Comments
Facebook have sent the following email to verified businesss today, 25th October: We're always working on better ways to help people understand more about the Pages they interact with. We introduced grey verification badges in 2015 to show which Pages for businesses and organisations are authentic. However, we've found that they can be more confusing than helpful, so we're removing them on 30...
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Social Media Templates for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Chris Grant (he/him) October 20, 2019 0 Comments
These are template files - for Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign - for the most common social media platforms for profiles, covers, banners, posts, and backgrounds. We're sharing these templates, that we use to produce client social media posts and social media branding, as they can really make life easier when you have 20+ walls, pages, and tweeters to manage 😀 We hope you find them useful!...
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Instagram is killing-off its Following tab

Chris Grant (he/him) October 08, 2019 0 Comments
Instagram is removing its Following tab, a feature which became better known as a stalking tool rather than its purpose to aid with new account discovery. Instagram says that its Explore tab is the go-to place to find new people, places and hashtags to follow. Meanwhile, the Following tab is now only used by a small number of people on a regular basis. Combined, those factors were the key reasons...
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Guiding twitter users from a public Tweet to a private conversation

Tom Furmanski July 31, 2019 0 Comments
When interacting with a customer on Twitter, you might want to take the conversation from the public timeline to a private Direct Message. To make this transition easier, you can include a specially formatted link in a Tweet, and we will automatically transform that link into a simple call-to-action. When a user clicks the call-to-action, they’ll be taken directly into the Direct Message...
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You can no longer turn off “Related Videos” when embedding a video from YouTube

Tom Furmanski July 23, 2019 0 Comments
According to their official statement, YouTube feels “Titles, channel information, and related videos are an important part of YouTube’s core user experience, and these changes help to make the YouTube viewing experience consistent across different platforms”. So, YouTube considers related videos an important part of their core experience and that enabling related videos on embedded...
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Twitter is removing support for precise geotagging – because no one uses it

Tom Furmanski June 20, 2019 0 Comments
Twitter is going to stop letting you add a precise geotag to your tweets, because there isn’t enough demand for the feature. In a tweet, the company’s support account said that it was removing the feature “to simplify your Tweeting experience.” However, you’ll still be able to tag the precise location of your photographs, and TechCrunch notes that you’ll also still be able to add...
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Facebook continues it’s fight against “fake news” with more page takedowns

Tom Furmanski May 07, 2019 0 Comments
Facebook revealed on Monday that it has removed more pages, groups, and accounts that originated in Russia and were being deceptive about who was behind them and what they were up to. The takedown at Facebook and Instagram was described as part of an ongoing battle against "coordinated inauthentic behavior" which has blocked numerous fake accounts from around the world. "We found two separate,...
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[Infographic] Is Facebook becoming social media’s retirement home?

Chris Grant (he/him) March 14, 2019 0 Comments
Even though it might be a bit of a stretch to describe Facebook as social media's retirement home, the social network is experiencing an exodus of young people while increasing numbers of over 55s are signing up. Facebook is generally struggling to retain its user base and today, it has an estimated 15 million fewer U.S. users than it did in 2017. That's according to a report released...
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Say goodbye to Google+ from April 2nd, 2019

Chris Grant (he/him) March 11, 2019 0 Comments
If you’re wanting to read about why Google+ was a bad idea poorly executed, well, just Google “Google+” and you will be treated to more than enough diatribes about why this platform was an eight-year non-starter. But as for our blog, we’ll stick with the impact Google+ had on WordPress, Drupal and websites in general. First things first Firstly, make sure you act now to remove any...
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Private tweets sent using Twitter’s Android app could have been exposed publicly for years

Jenny Howell January 18, 2019 0 Comments
Twitter said it had discovered a security flaw which meant "protected" tweets became public when some changes were made to accounts. Anyone who updated the email address linked to their account between November 2014 and January 2019 could have had messages exposed, it said. Twitter said it had started to let affected users know about the bug. It added that it had turned the protections back on...
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