Political Social Grab Bag – October 2023

Political Social Grab Bag

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Nothing new to share but we are starting to put together our 2024 schedule…including a return to doing Digital Organizing Bootcamp in person…stay tuned! And if you’d be interested in partnering to host a training in your city, drop us an email!

What am I reading?

Threads: The inside story of Meta’s newest social app – Interesting insider’s view of how Threads got built in such a short period of time

Social Media isn’t very social anymore –  Just read this one

Platform Updates

Facebook

The paid verification program is now being expanded to include a Paid Verification program for pages as well

AI is coming to FB (and Instagram) big time

Business Suite redesigned the bulk uploader feature for Stories

Instagram

Rolling out now: More discretion in organic post targeting

TwitterX

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Other Platforms

LinkedIn is sunsetting hashtags on the platform 😒

TikTok: Live recordings are now being stored for 30 days instead of 90

Is TikTok about to make a slight pivot away from just entertainment into messaging as well?

Threads: search has now rolled out

Clubhouse is trying to pivot to be an audio messaging app

Artifact continues to evolve– the newest addition is the links section that makes this app more like social media than just a newsreader

T2 is now Pebble

Don’t Try This At Home

Hahahaha i got nothing (except to see that Jim Prosser used to be on the comms staff at Twitter sooooo…)

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