Political Social Grab Bag – September 2023

Political Social Grab Bag

Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Social Media Deep Dive– Oct 2-5 via zoom

We are starting to think about our 2024 training schedule…including a return to in person training for our Bootcamp…stay tuned for more info on dates and locations soon!

What am I reading?

Fleeing Elon Musk’s X, the quest to re-create ‘Black Twitter’ – Good food for thought about how the chaos is impacting communities who really need that space for connection and more

Why brands are still trying to be funny and chronically online – even in “late stage social media” – Though it focuses on brands it’s good framework to think about our own work on social media

New Tools of Interest

Fizz: For now a platform only available on college campuses, but as students graduate the platform is already planning for expansion…one to keep an eye on

Platform Updates

Facebook

Groups: Groups with inactive admins, the admins are now getting notifications asking them to add another admin in an effort to boost activity in low activity groups– for now at least, you can opt to not add another admin

Instagram

New chapter in the “all platforms copy each other” saga: Instagram is testing the ability for users to add their own content to other’s posts also known as stitching

You can now add music clips to photo carousels

In Europe, IG is now getting a chronological feed in response to new laws taking effect- stay tuned to see if this ends up going global

Twitter/X

The new brand kit is available if you’re wanting to update logos on templates etc

ICYMI: TweetDeck is now XPro and only available to TwitterX Blue subscribers

Link previews are getting a major overhaul

Political Ads are back…and are getting a new “ads transparency center” (supposedly)

Other Platforms

TikTok: In case you need more characters you can now use 4000 <insert eyeroll here>

Threads & Mastodon: The first step in the interweaving of the platforms in the fediverse is now live: You can now verify your Threads profile on Mastodon

Threads: New features added include alt text (at last), Send Thread via IG DM, and at long last we have the web app!

TikTok: TikTok is now the first platform to require disclosure of AI created content

Messenger: Meta is going to be dropping Messenger integration with SMS this month

Threads: Reposts are now showing up in the Following feed

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