Visit the Winchester House right from your home with Facebook
This week in social media we review: Snap Q3, retweet changes, Quibi, & more!
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2 min readOct 23, 2020
- A new Messenger API with Instagram support has officially dropped.
- Over 120,000 posts have been removed from Facebook that attempted to obstruct voting. Suuuuuuuper.
- Topics in Facebook Watch have officially launched this week. Have you noticed the update?
- Neighborhood is in the works at Facebook, the platform’s version of Nextdoor, based on local groups.
- The EU is taking a closer look into how Instagram handles kids’ data.
- Influencers who don’t disclose brand partnerships in their content are getting a crackdown from Instagram.
- The platform is also adding an age-gate tool for branded content, as an added layer of protection for both users and brands.
SNAPCHAT
- Snap reported both an increase in users and revenue in Q3.
- The platform also reported that its anime lens was a massive success.
- At least until the end of election week, Twitter is changing how users can retweet in order to prevent abuse and the spread of misinformation.
AR, VR, & AI
- With a few nips and tucks, Photoshop’s artificial intelligence neural filters can tweak age and appearance.
- Facebook is relaunching its Spark AR network in order to maximize on all things augmented reality.
- Take a spooky virtual tour of the Winchester house right from your living room this Halloween, courtesy of Facebook.
NOTEWORTHY
- LinkedIn Stories have gone global!
- Step aside, Nickelodeon! YouTube’s hottest kids shows are taking over streaming services.
- QR codes on brand packaging are having a major moment right now.
VIRAL CONTENT
- The power of TikTok is real. The viral video of the guy skateboarding and drinking a bottle of cranberry juice with Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” playing in the background has put the band’s album, Rumours, back in Billboard’s Top 10, WHERE IT BELONGS.
- RIP Quibi.
- Chris Pratt was unofficially voted the Worst Chris in Hollywood on Twitter, but his friends say otherwise.
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