Facebook Dating, location security options, possible like-count-hiding test; YouTube hides follower counts; Facebook and Instagram in-ad checkout; “Private” Instagram posts not so private; no more text-to-tweet (for now); Twitter Agency Playbook.
Read more#MidweekMinute 5/15/19: Breakin' up is hard to do
Is Facebook too powerful?; Birthday Stories & new small business features; WhatsApp payments; Instagram @shop, fact-checking, and possible music video sticker; MailChimp gets serious about small business tools.
Read more#MidweekMinute 4/25/19 (just past midweek...)
A day late… and WAY TOO MUCH news!
Basically, everyone’s making tweaks to their layouts and ads…
#MidweekMinute: Suggested stories, business DMs, more Snap
Instagram now recommends stories; Twitter empowers businesses with stronger direct messaging tools; Snapchat expands shareability beyond the app and increases ad strength by disabling immediate skips for some clips.
Read more#MidweekMinute: Spark, more Groups, REAL NEWS, and a not-phone
Are you using Amazon Spark? Have you joined a "group" for a page yet? Will you pay Facebook for news? And, last but not least: is Facebook developing a modular smartphone?
Read more#MidweekMinute 7/5/17
In today's Midweek Minute: bad news for #FakeNews; global WiFi in sight; Snapchat gets creepy
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