Social Media Weekly

TikTok Prevents Stops New Posts and Livestreams in Russia, Facebook Testing New Desktop Layout, Twitter May Be Building Support for Podcasts, Meta’s NPE Releases a To-Do App, and Snapchat Turns Off Heatmap on Ukraine.

Meta’s Horizon Worlds Sees Increase in Users, Snapchat Lets Users Change Their Usernames, YouTube Ramps up Misinformation Fight, Meta Restricts Profile Image Frames, and Survey Shows Users Don’t Like Unsolicited DMs on LinkedIn

Twitter’s Users Grown by 6 million in Q4, LinkedIn Tests Switching Off Political Posts in Feed, Snapchat Tests Slotting Ads mid-roll, Likes Come to Instagram Stories, and Twitter Testing Variable Speeds on Videos and Audios.

Facebook Lost 1 Million Daily Active Users, Instagram Adds Features to Reels, Twitter Testing Article Length Posts, YouTube raked in $28.8 Billion in Ad revenue, and Snap May Be Working on a Selfie Drone.

Meta Gets into NFT space, Messenger Kids Launches Digital Literacy Program, Instagram Will Reduce Reach of Hate and Bullying Posts, Meta Integrates WhatsApp into Workplace, and TikTok Brings Back Creepy Function

Snapchat Blocks Adults From Connecting With Minors, Instagram Continues to Grow in India, Meta’s NPE Team Focuses on Global Markets, TikTok Still Believes in Stories, and This is How Meta Plans to Monetize the Metaverse.

Twitter Tests Ability to Respond to Tweets with Videos, Instagram Rolling Out ‘Profile Status’, LinkedIn Launches Its Own Clubhouse Clone, and TikTok testing New Sharing Option to View Clips and Follow Profiles.

Social Commerce Expected to Grow to US$1.2 trillion by 2025, Twitter Sells MoPub for $1.05 billion, Facebook Removes Some Sensitive Targeting Options, and Snapchat Pays Over $250 million to Spotlight Creators

TikTok is Being Sued by Its Content Moderator, Clubhouse Launches Saved Replays, Meta Updates Ad Objectives, Giving Us Fewer Options, TikTok Testing ‘Repost’ Option, and Here are Instagram’s Plans for 2022.

Meta Makes Horizon World Creation and Interaction To More Users, Instagram Lets Us Reply to Comments with Reels, Instagram Brings Chronological Feed To Us But Not Exactly What We Expected, Meta Gives More Users Access to Simplified AR Creation Tools, and WhatsApp Lets Us Preview Voice Messages Before Sending.

Snapchat Launches Holiday Shopping AR Experience, Instagram Testing Longer Stories Videos, Twitter CEO Steps Down, TikTok Tests Business Account Registration, and YouTube Lets Us Re-Use Video Details.

Instagram Shuts ‘Threads’ App, Clubhouse Rolls Out Auto Captions, Meta Delays Encrypted Messages to 2023, TikTok Brings its App to the TV in the US, and Twitter Joins the Live Shopping Hype.

TikTok Releases Trends That Make Posts Viral, Twitter May Show NFT Profile Photos in a Special Shape, Facebook Will Remove Thousands of Ad Targeting Categories, Reels Adds Text-to-Speech, Then TikTok Upgrades Theirs, and Lite Version of Creative Apps Available Within Facebook Stories.

Pinterest Kept Losing Users, Clubhouse Adds Support to 13 Languages, Snap Launches New Certification Cours, Twitter Lets non-users Tune Into Spaces, Meta May Open Retail Stores.

Facebook is Now Meta, Twitter Brings Super Follows to iOS, LinkedIn Continues to Grow in Size and Revenue, Instagram Brings Links to all Stories Users, and Facebook Launches New Coursera Courses.

Facebook May Change Its Name, Clubhouse Adds Pinned Links, Everyone, stop Dry Scooping, Instagram Enables Desktop Posting of Videos and Images, and Former US President Launches New Social Media.

2022 Prediction Specials: Top 10 things we think will get more attention next year

These are Facebook’s Post-Facebook Files Improvements, Twitter Officially Launches Ability to Remove Followers, Instagram Releases Two New Features, Clubhouse Adds Link-Sharing to Rooms, and Twitter Adds New Features to its Paid Tier.

Instagram Tests Likes on Stories, Clubhouse Adds Universal Search, Snapchat Pushes AR Adoption with WPP, Instagram Retires IGTV, and Facebook Always Choose Profit over Users.

Facebook Reacts to ‘Facebook Files’ Reveal, Clubhouse Lets Us Wave at Friends to Start a Room, Instagram Shelves Kidstagram, TikTok Reaches 1 Billion Users, and LinkedIn Plans Paid Events.