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Top Five: Social networks invest in quality news

Sherrilynne Starkie

This week’s must-know social media news for marketing and communications professionals includes headlines about Facebook’s attempt to clean up, support for journalism from Twitter and Google, the continuing importance of links in SEO and some new, clever features from LinkedIn. Glad to see these priorities. — SS.

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

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This could provide a sense of security and control for users, a step towards addressing privacy concerns which, in turn, may encourage more creators to join the platform. Miscellaneous Insights Meta's News Blackout Impact: An examination of how Meta's news blackout in Canada adversely affects student journalists.

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The 6 Best Instagram Analytics Tools (And Metrics You Need to Track)

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Instagram analytics tools aren’t just feel-good graphs and vanity metrics: they’re the best way to see if all the time, energy, and budget you spend on the platform are, you know, worth it. Tracking Instagram analytics is how everyone from micro-influencers to global brands get the data they need to see what resonates with their audiences.

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It's a Subscription Model Market, Facebook's Pivot to Professionals, X Targets Streaming: Monday Social Media News Roundup

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Usage Statistics and Growth Twitter (X) CEO unveils new stats on platform usage: 14% increase in user time, 20% rise in video consumption, significant growth in creators, and nearly $20 million paid to creators via its ad revenue program. Subscriber Analytics YouTube launches new subscriber analytics for better content planning.

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Social Media News Ticker: Pinterest Adds Place Pins, Vine Goes Global

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Check out this week’s summary of all the latest social media news, including changes and new features for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Pinterest, Instagram, Vine and Livefyre: Place Pins (image: Pinterest blog). Any social media updates that we missed? Let us know in the comments below!

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Dark Social in 2023: Here’s Why (and How) You Should Track It

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Dark social media, or dark traffic, isn’t easily tracked by traditional analytics tools. Dark social sources often can’t be measured because they’re private, like an email, or because analytics software can’t accurately categorize them — either because the source is hidden, or the link doesn’t have UTM parameters. What about in 2023?

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Tracking, Personalization And Screams Of Privacy

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Any tracking of information of consumers without the consent of your consumer is a breach of privacy, right? Some privacy advocates might argue that this is a matter of simple semantics. So, they left Salesforce and launched a new startup called, Nomi. breach of privacy. web analytics. breach of privacy.

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