Jack Dorsey is out as Twitter’s CEO
This week in Hard Refresh: Social we review TikTok creator monetization, Meta crypto ads, Spotify Wrapped, & more!
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2 min readDec 3, 2021
- Meta is offering up an explanation for its approach to user safety following their delay on rolling out end-to-end encryption. Let’s hear this one…
- Meta also updated its policy this week on cryptocurrency ads, making room for more crypto promotions on its apps.
- Instagram wants to be number one in the youth’s hearts again, and their plan is to focus on video.
- Jack Dorsey resigned as Twitter’s CEO this week.
- Twitter is testing new themed app icons for the holidays. So festive and fun!
- The platform has also banned posting photos of “private individuals” against their wishes. Interesting.
AR, VR, & AI
- Snapchat launched an AR campaign this week in partnership with the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to, you guessed it, raise awareness about saving the Great Barrier Reef.
- Creating an AI that can competitively play Pokemon has been no easy feat.
- Twitch’s machine learning ban evasion detector will be the new default setting in an effort to combat hate speech on the platform.
NOTEWORTHY
- A federal judge blocked Texas’ law banning “viewpoint discrimination” on social media, citing that the platforms have the right to moderate their spaces.
- TikTok added creator monetization this week, with features that include tipping and video gifts. I bet the TikTokers loved to see that!
- LinkedIn added new tools to its Creator Mode feature, including newsletters and LinkedIn Live Access. It’s a good time to be a creator!
VIRAL CONTENT
- Spotify Wrapped 2021 dropped this week and we got to see how basic everyone’s music taste is.
- Popular Instagram account, @things.i.bought.and.liked, went on an amazing Giving Tuesday rampage, shaming large companies into clearing Amazon Wish Lists of teachers working at underprivileged schools with wit and charm.
Have a wonderful weekend!
