Tue.May 05, 2020

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Twitter Expands Test of Threaded Tweet Replies to More Users, Adds New Format Tweaks

Social Media Today

Twitter is expanding its test of threaded replies, while it's also hiding retweet and Like buttons on responses to put more focus on the conversation itself.

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Incendiary Language: How Brands Can Keep COVID-19 Messaging From Fanning a Dangerous Flame

The Realtime Report

Incendiary Language: How Brands Can Keep COVID-19 Messaging From Fanning a Dangerous Flame. By. Asia Hunt. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate and information rapidly circulates online around the crisis, incendiary headlines have exploded onto our newsfeeds, resulting in mixed messaging, confusion, and most dangerously — major panic. With the spread of misinformation and online scare tactics, we’ve entered into a growing economy of fear –– and brands, as primary communicators in our

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Instagram Will Now Show Stories and Posts from Health Bodies More Prominently in User Feeds

Social Media Today

Instagram will now show Stories from health authorities higher in user feeds as it seeks to facilitate the spread of accurate COVID-19 information to its users.

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Why You Should Put Internal Communications First During a Crisis

Meltwater

As brands navigate their way through a crisis, communications teams take center stage. When organizations have to figure out what to say—and fast—they call upon their communicators to help them… Read More >>>.

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21 Advanced ChatGPT Prompts To Take Your Social Media to the Next Level

Upgrade your social media game with our in-depth playbook: "21 advanced ChatGPT prompts for social media managers". These powerful prompts are tailored to supercharge your content creation, strategy development, and results analysis. Say goodbye to writer's block and hello to endless creativity as you effortlessly generate engaging posts, come up with original strategies, and optimize your social media performance - all in a fraction of the time.

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YouTube Is Working on a New Option to Enable Publishers to Sell Subscriptions via Their YouTube Channels

Social Media Today

YouTube is reportedly working on a new option that would enable publishers to more easily promote subscriptions to their publications via the video platform.

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How to Schedule YouTube Videos to Save Time: A Step-by-Step Guide

Hootsuite

If you’ve been creating video content for your business’s YouTube marketing strategy for a while now, you might be wondering how to schedule YouTube videos. Scheduling videos helps with the planning of a social media content calendar. It’s a good way to make sure you don’t forget to share the quality content you’ve created—on a regular basis. And scheduling ensures you’re publishing those videos at a time that is optimal for your audience.

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8 stats that demonstrate how social drives business growth

Sprout Social

When marketing practitioners and their bosses align on goals for social, they can unlock social’s potential as a true driver for business growth. For practitioners, this means understanding how marketing leaders prioritize their objectives for social and leaning on social data to develop effective strategies that support bottom-line goals. And for marketing leaders, sharing big-picture objectives with social practitioners can help them better understand what insights and social data to bring for

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Facebook Sees Uptick in Account Removals on its Main Platform Due to Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior

Social Media Today

Facebook has published its latest update on account removals due to 'coordinated inauthentic behavior' - or efforts to manipulate public opinion.

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How to Make Your Own Name Tag (Fast!)

The Realtime Report

How to Make Your Own Name Tag (Fast!). Are you in a rush to make name tags for the attendees of an upcoming event? Do you need to make quick name tags for temporary use while your orders are still on their way? It’s easy to create and print out a name tag. However, if you don’t have the technical skills to operate fancy programs, it can be tricky. It can be frustrating to have to discover how Photoshop works first.

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YouTube Announces Virtual Graduation Event, With a Comencement Address from Barack Obama

Social Media Today

Not to be outdone by Facebook, YouTube is hosting its own, star-studded, virtual graduation event for the class of 2020.

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Social Media Automation 101

A beginner's guide to social media automation tools and getting automation right.

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Victims to Our Way of Life

Ari Herzog

Imagine… if the world, the hemisphere, the continent, the country, the state, the city, the neighborhood, and everyone living on your street stayed at home and never left for two weeks. With no humans out and about, the virus would fall to the ground and die. But that’s not our world and that’s definitely not our street. Even with the most stringent stay-at-home orders in places like South Korea, Italy, and Spain, government leaders allow essential workers to move around and pu

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Twitter Launches New Test of Warnings on Potentially Harmful Tweet replies

Social Media Today

Twitter has launched a new, limited test which will provide warnings on tweet replies that use potentially harmful language.

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TikTok’s Viral #PeeYourPantsChallenge Questions Conformity And Digital Footprints

Forbes Social Media

The very real #PeeYourPantsChallenge has gone viral on TikTok, which begs the question: How far are we willing to go for fame and conformity?

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Google Launches Podcasts Manager to Help Podcasters Maximize Performance

Social Media Today

Google has launched a new tool which will enable podcasters to glean more insights into their audience behaviors.

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The Content Marketing Survival Guide: How to Navigate the Wilds of Social Media

Use this guide to inspire your creativity and ignite more successful and sustainable social media conversations.

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Recreating Scenes From Fine Art To Movies On Social Media As A Way To Survive The Coronavirus Quarantine

Forbes Social Media

Due to the coronavirus pandemic and orders to stay home and remain in quarantine it is literally accurate to say some people simply have too much time on their hands. We can see that by what has been posted across social media over the past month.

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Pinterest Adds 32 Million More Users in Q1, Now up to 367 Million MAU

Social Media Today

Pinterest has maintained its solid growth rates, adding 32 million more users in the most recent quarter.

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TikTok Is Preparing For An Ad War

Forbes Social Media

Active users pre-virus were estimated at 800 million which ranks them far beyond Snap and Twitter, and just shy of Instagram’s 1 billion ‘grammers.

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Tips To Free Up RAM on Your Windows 10 Computer

Tweaklibrary

As it happens with most computers once they get a little old, system RAM runs out and eventually the system starts running low. It’s quite definite that almost every one of us had been through these situations. Eventually, the system slows down & the performance goes from bad to worse. Just clicking on “X” (top right corner) definitely frees up RAM memory on your Windows 10, however, there will be applications running on your computer.

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Social Media Marketing GPS

SMGPS will tell you the why & how to use social media for marketing, 1 tweet at a time. You'll learn essentials in digestible little spoonfuls.

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Daddy, I Don't Want To Be A Youtuber When I Grow Up Anymore: The Myth Of The Attention Economy

Forbes Social Media

Chinese social network TikTok looks set to follow in the footsteps of its predecessors at least in terms of video content creation and the “daddy, when I grow up I want to be a youtuber “ myth. Sure, you can have a great time creating content on TikTok, but you won’t make any money from it.

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What is Vlog? How to Start a Vlog? : Guide

Tweaklibrary

A quick Google search says, Vlog is “a personal website or social media account where a person regularly posts short videos” Isn’t it amazing posting videos very often when people are consuming such content very often? Well, Vlogs have changed the way we used to consume online content lately. While YouTube, Facebook was not enough, apps like TikTok have changed the trends upside down.

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Companies Maintain Social Media Push As COVID-19 Lockdown Continues

Forbes Social Media

They’re continuing to come up with creative and helpful ways to stay engaged with a distanced public in this time of Coronavirus.

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Making Remote Learning Joyful And Secure For Students

Tweaklibrary

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools to shut down and take remote learning as a way to carry on academics. And, this would probably go on for a long time. Till then schools and other educational institutions would most definitely be using video conferencing as a way to impart academic lessons and carry other academic proceedings. Which brings the need of strengthening cyber safety for kids.

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How to Be Social: A Social Media Manifesto

Learn the 10 worst social media marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

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X Æ A-12: Does Elon Musk’s Baby Name Have A Hidden Meaning?

Forbes Social Media

A codename, perhaps?

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Location Tracking Ban on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

Tweaklibrary

After hitting the modern world with the strongest pandemic it has ever seen, COVID-19 isn’t stopping still. Many countries are coming together to fight the pandemic in every possible way. This includes the use of contact tracing apps that work on Bluetooth features along with a health survey. Recently, tech giants (Google & Apple) have made big announcements related to the contact tracing apps.

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Dear COVID-19, Kill The Zombie Phrase “Don’t Waste A Crisis”

Forbes Social Media

As the Walking Dead character Dale Horvath stated in season one: “Words can be meager things. Sometimes they fall short.” This seems an apt way to describe the “don’t waste a crisis” line.

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20 Social Media Post Types That Perform Well (and How to Use Them)

agora pulse

Need to post something to your social media channels but don’t know what? Consider these popular types of social media posts to get your creativity flowing. Maintaining a social media editorial calendar can be exhausting. You have to come with something awesome every day. Let us help you out! Whether you want to diversify your social media feeds or to get more people to comment on and like your updates, this list of types of social media posts will come in handy: 1.

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8 Stupid Simple Social Media Tricks to Boost SEO

Discover just how easy it is to boost SEO with social media.

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Snapchat Shares New Data on User Purchase Intent During the Back to School Period [Infographic]

Social Media Today

Snapchat has provided a new set of insights into what its users are looking to buy ahead of going back to class.

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How to use Pinterest for Business promotion in 2020

BeingOptimist

Pinterest is basically the visual social media just like other digital scrapbooks combined with a digital wish list. From dinner recipes to inspiring boards, Pinterest has many fun-filled and helpful features, especially for business. This platform is widely used by businesses to promote their brand and services. For those who are not aware of this social media platform, it revolves around sharing, images, and purchasing.

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