Political Social Grab Bag – July 2023

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Trainings & Webinar Alerts

2 Netroots Nation trainings:

Social Media News You Can Use– 900am Thurs July 13 in Astoria Room

Social Media Platforms: Beyond the Big 5– 245pm Fri July 14 in Astoria Room with co trainer Rosemari Ochoa

Advanced Digital Bootcamp– via zoom Aug 7-11- applications close July 10

 

Watch this space for new fall training dates in next month’s newsletter

 

What am I reading?

How Bluesky Is Seizing the Opportunity of Twitter’s Decline With Custom Algorithms – Interesting read with inside takes on what’s going on behind the scenes at Bluesky

Meta says it’s blocking news on Facebook, Instagram after government passes online news bill – For our friends in Canada…this bears keeping an eye on …note that Google has also made a similar announcement

Hashtags in the Sky – Using Bluesky for context this is a good read about hashtags in general

New Tools of Interest

The expected arrival date for Threads – the Meta answer to Twitter- is Thurs July 6

AltText.ai – handy tool for generating alt text if you’re not sure what to write

Platform Updates

Instagram

New ad placement for Political Ads: can now run on Instagram Reels but sharing is disabled. It is recommended that you use a 40% safe zone at the bottom of the reel to make space for the Political ad disclaimer

IG is now allowing folks to download publicly shared Reels – you can disallow such downloading in account settings

Twitter

Starting early August TweetDeck will be for Twitter Blue subscribers only

Twitter is now rate limiting the reading of Tweets (because of this starting next month Twitter will be relegated to the Other Platforms category in this newsletter)

Other Platforms

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