Political Social Grab Bag – June 2025

Political Social Grab Bag

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Netroots Nation will be in New Orleans Aug 7-9…these are the trainings I will be leading/co-leading:

Reaching People Where They Are: Tactics for Today’s Digital Space with Colin Delany at 1pm Thurs 8/7 in room 389

Epic Fail: The Annual Failies with Debra Cleaver and Laura Packard at 1pm Fri 8/8 in the Town Square

2025 Social Media News You Can Use Sat 8/9 at 10am in room 391

What am I reading?

Are Hashtags Dead? Not At All, But… – good read on the history of hashtags and some thoughts on best ways to use them nowadays

Are We in the Post-Follower Era of Social? – The short answer 95% yes

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms

Facebook: Reels on Pages now offer a copyright checker

Instagram’s Edits: More fonts, voice effects and more

Instagram: Unlockable Reels are here,…here’s more info in how they work

Instgram: Shared Access looks to closer to rolling out

Threads: Ads. And here’s a closer look at placing them

Threads: More updates including link analytics!

Fediverse

Bluesky: Verification of “notable users” begins

Other Platforms

Google Search is testing a comments section on search the results – already daydreaming about how we can use this in advocacy

LinkedIn: Announced some new ad formats including video up fronts which will ensure that video is the first video ad in a viewer’s timeline

TwitterX: Now rolling out: 4k video uploads

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