Political Social Grab Bag – October 2024

Political Social Grab Bag

What am I thinking about?

Thank you to those who reached out about the infographic we included last month- we reconfigured it to make it easier to read…the tl/dr IKYMI: The Facebook Ads for Elections blackout starts 10/29 at Midnight Pacific time…Click here to download the infographic

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

No new trainings to report but we continue to work on our plans for 2025. To that end, we are doing a survey to learn more about what kinds of training the community (that’s you of course) want so could you take a few minutes to fill out our short training survey? For that do we will be randomly selecting 3 survey takers to receive a code for $100 off the training of their choice in 2025.

What am I reading?

The ‘feral 25-year-olds’ making Kamala Harris go viral on TikTok – ICYMI Line that jumped out at me: “You just gotta trust your people. Our f–up ration [is as low] as if there were 19 layers of approval”. YESSSSSS (you can also file this under Winning the Internet)

New Tools of Interest

SocialAI – It was only a matter of time….

Platform Updates

Meta Platforms

Instagram: Broadcast channels now have replies (doesn’t that just make them community chats?)

Threads: Not long ago they debuted columns on desktop, well now you can rearrange those columns

Instagram: For creator accounts, all kinds of new text tools for stories and reels like fonts & animations

Instagram: New: Replies for Stories (as opposed to replies that go to your messenger inbox)

Facebook: One of the most annoying all time FB feature is now available to pages: Pokes

Facebook: Ads will now be served with in the page management experience and if someone engages with said ad it will register as the page engaging with the ad, not the admin

Instagram: You can now create a reel from a timeline post

Instagram: Emoji pong #ftw

Fediverse

Bluesky: Finally….video!

Other Platforms

Canva: For those that pay for Canva be aware that there is a YUGE price increase on the way

Twitter: You can now edit DMs on iOS\

YouTube: Coming soon- ads on the pause screen

Don’t Try This At Home

Once more for the crowd at the back of the room: Avoid stock photos but if you’re gonna use em for gosh sakes quadruple check that the image depicts what you claim it does {h/t Laura Packard}

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