I have made a summary of today's best updates in social media.
I hope you like it.
Twitter 😎
- Twitter blocks Bing in intriguing strategic maneuver.
- Twitter /X introduces verification and $1/yr fee to combat bot activity.
- Elon Musk contemplates withdrawing Twitter / X from Europe due to EU law.
- X adopts credit card verification to tackle escalating AI-driven bot issues.
Tiktok 🎶
- TikTok emphasizes cybersecurity, celebrates Cybersecurity Awareness Month with community education.
- TikTok extends training offer to sports advertisers for enhanced marketing.
- TikTok, Entrupy collaborate to authenticate luxury bags, bolstering trust in TikTok Shop.
Meta 📘
- WhatsApp now allows two accounts on one device, simplifying work-personal balance.
- Meta alters Facebook comment settings, limits interactions amid Israel-Hamas conflict.
- Meta employs Facebook to amplify Threads reach via "For you on Threads" feature.
- Whatsapp: New feature allows users to control message lifespan in chat.
Youtube 📺
- YouTube rolls out timestamped product tags, simplifying shopping and creator monetization.
- YouTube developing AI tool for creators to sing in musicians' voices, negotiating rights.
- YouTube unveils display enhancements, bulk tagging for affiliate product promotion.
- YouTube initiates program aiding news publishers in crafting Shorts, funds $1.6 million.
- YouTube to amplify product ads with video timestamp tagging feature for creators.
Google 🐸
- Google Rich Results Test now supports paywalled content.
- Google updates favicon documentation, ensuring site's favicon indexing by allowing Googlebot, Googlebot-Image user agents.
- Google's Top Stories experimenting with "Mentioned In These Stories" feature.
Ai 🤖
- SEMrush launches AI Ad Copy Generator to optimize Google Ads campaigns' ROI swiftly.
Instagram 📷
- Instagram developing Live video Quiz game feature.
- Instagram accounts now mentionable in Threads, ensuring notifications even without Threads app usage.
- Instagram accused of censoring posts favoring Palestine, suspected shadow-banning alleged.
Facebook 💎
- Facebook, Messenger introduce Broadcast channels for page admins to share multimedia updates.
Others 👀
- Snapchat introduces "Paid Partnership Tags" and Creator Discovery API, bolstering creator-brand collaborations for enhanced transparency and monetization.
- Amazon, Twitter likely to evade EU's Digital Services Act enforcement bill, unlike Alphabet, Meta.
- Snapchat unveils three tools, fostering enhanced brand-creator collaborations and ad placements.
- Chrome search bar now corrects typos, searches bookmarks swiftly.
- Discord: Halloween ringtone introduced on desktop, mobile for spooky calls to friends.
That's all for today's news.
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