Best Practices
TikTok’s Busting Out
Amazon Prime Video France launched "Cités" exclusively on TikTok in late February.
Anything Album Covers
The artistic nature of this challenge has attracted a lot of professional content creators making album covers out of random camera roll photos.
Twitter Super Followers & Edit Buttons
Twitter may introduce a pair of big upcoming features: the ability for users to charge their followers for access to additional content, and the ability to create and join groups based around specific interests.
Twitter is working on “Undo Send” timer for tweets pic.twitter.com/nS0kuijPK0
— Jane Manchun Wong (@wongmjane) March 5, 2021
New Shoppable Tweets
Twitter confirmed it’s testing a new way to display tweets that link out to e-commerce product pages — like products on a Shopify store, for example.
Twitter is experimenting with new shopping features 🛍
— 🟣 Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) March 2, 2021
A NEW Twitter Card being tested for tweets containing links to product pages on a shop's website
New-style Twitter Shopping Card shows
- Product name
- Shop name
- Product price
- 'Shop' button
<-Old | New->
ht @YasserM86 pic.twitter.com/8q5xLbbH2m
LinkedIn's Freelancer Market
LinkedIn is developing a new service called Marketplaces to let its 740 million users find and book freelancers, pitting it against publicly traded firms such as Upwork and Fiverr.
LinkedIn Stories For Pages & Swipe-Ups
Internal access to Stories is a way for companies to maintain engagement with their employees during the pandemic, which will likely last for another year for many organizations, LinkedIn says.
YouTube Shorts
YouTube is kicking off new features for creators that it says will change the way the world experiences video.
Tacos Through Pneumatic Tubes
The Brooklyn Park City Council approved the plans this week. The Taco Bell To Go restaurant will feature multiple pickup lanes.
Worst Practices
Microsoft Servers Hacked
At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns, cities and local governments — have over the past few days been hacked by an unusually aggressive Chinese cyber espionage unit that’s focused on stealing email from victim organizations.
Smiles
Dangerous Adventures With Dad
A father created a now viral Instagram account to prank his girlfriend while she was at work and frequently texting to ask how their baby was.
Shiny New Stuff
Pro Tips
Optimize For Engagement
What do the social media channels want?
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