What happened on Social Media this week 👇

Instagram

• Is developing a new ‘montage’ feature to convert Stories to Reels.

• New list type “Favourites” will bring the posts by your favourites higher in the feed.

• Added new ‘map search’ tool to maximize business discovery. It is live for users in Australia and New Zealand.

What happened on Social Media this week 👇

Twitter

• Shopping on Twitter is coming soon.

• Launched test of full-width images and videos on iOS.

• Launched test to remove specific followers.

• Launches initial test of ‘communities’ topic-based groups within the app.

Facebook

• Previewed smart glasses ahead of its launch.

TikTok

• Announced events for the fashion month.

What happened on Social Media this week 👇

Instagram

• Instagram will be asking people for their birthdays to protect youngsters.

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What happened on Social Media this week 👇

Instagram

• Is removing swipe-up links for stories, replacing the function with link stickers.

It’ll still be available only if you have over 10K followers.

Twitter

• Announced new features to help users celebrate the paralympic games.

You can explore the Paralympic news and update here.

• Is testing a new option that will show you the spaces that people you follow are tuning in to.

• Has opened up ticketed spaces to selected users, another step in its creator monetization push.

Facebook

• Added new features to help users follow the paralympic games.

What happened on Social Media this week 👇

Twitter

• Announced coming dm improvements, including multi-dm sharing and updated navigation.

• Tested new topic tags to spaces to improve discovery.

• Announced new lead for its bluesky social media decentralization project.

• Paused verification process rollout.

• Tested new misleading info reporting option to further combat misinformation in tweets.

• Is working on a ‘leave this conversation’ option to help manage on-platform engagement.

• Launched new API access for spaces to facilitate the development of third-party apps…

What happened on Social Media this week 👇

Instagram

• Added new ‘audio’ tab to its search options to boost reels engagement.

What happened on Social Media this week 👇

Twitter

• Added new sign-in options via Apple and Google ID

• Announced new partnerships with Reuters and AP to improve information accuracy in trend listings.