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Meta's Launching Sassy Chatbots, Instagram Creates AI Stickers, And Twitter Axes Misinformation Reports: Monday Social Media News Roundup

Buffer Social

Despite its struggles to retain users, The Verge reports that reads could still catch up to Twitter/X. Twitter removed the feature allowing users to report misleading information. Twitter announces the shutdown of ‘Circles’ as of October 31st. Monetization Dynamics Will Twitter Charge Users?:

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Top Five: Finally some good news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s top 5 must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals see a lot of good work by both Google and Facebook in the effort to improve the quality of news and reporting. Google to tell us the good news for once. A new feature is rolling out on Google Assistant. Not so much.

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Top Five Social Media News: Instagram native scheduling is here!

Sherrilynne Starkie

Lots of social media news out this week and here’s a summary of the top five stories you need to know. I’m happy for this news! Twitter keeps getting better & stronger. Twitter continues to grow, reporting a profit of $37m for the second quarter as its revenue and its user base grow.

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Monday Social Media News Roundup: Week of October 23rd

Buffer Social

Web Tracking Opt-out Meta now allows users to prevent Instagram from tracking their web activity, bolstering privacy controls. Link Addition and Desktop Activity Access New functionalities include adding a link to your page and accessing account activity on desktop, enhancing profile management.

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Social Networking Stats: Active Usage Drops For Facebook and Twitter, #RLTM Scoreboard

The Realtime Report

billion monthly active users. Twitter: 255 million monthly active users. Qzone: 599 million monthly active users. Google Plus: 343 million monthly active users. Active Usage Drops For Facebook and Twitter. LinkedIn and Twitter’s active usage dropped 3%. Facebook: 1.23 via YouTube.

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Eight Common Twitter Issues And Steps To Resolve Them

SocMed Sean

Shortly after its 2016 launch, Twitter began to make history. As one of the most popular social media sites, Twitter’s format of giving users the ability to post short messages was fairly novel at the time and has since been adopted in various forms by many other social media sites. Twitter Won’t Load At All.

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How I Consume the News

Ari Herzog

When the pandemic began — and even before that when people ran amok and didn’t know what to do — I actively consumed the news. No more news channels. For several days, without consuming any news and after unfollowing anyone on Facebook or Twitter who shared the news, I introduced new behaviors into my life.

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