New Twitter Features

Episode 307 – May 10, 2020

Topics:

Twitter Moderates
New Twitter Features?
Google Podcast Analytics
Google Web Vitals
Facebook Oversight Board
Ryan Reynolds’ Slides
Wendy’s Scavenger Hunt
Progressive Works From Home
Amazon’s Upload Debuts
Copy & Paste IRL
Jimmy Kimmel’s Screwup
GoDaddy Hacked
Axl Rose Trends
YouTube Engagement Benchmarks

During episode 307, BL and David discuss Twitter’s new moderation tool and potential new features for business profiles; Google’s podcast analytics; Google’s Web Vitals metrics; Facebook’s oversight board; Ryan Reynold’s Mint Mobile commercial; Wendy’s online scavenger hunt; Progressive Insurance works from home; Amazon’s new show, Upload; augmented reality that copy and pastes from real life; Google Lens’ new copy to desktop feature; Jimmy Kimmel’s screw up; 28,000 GoDaddy hosting accounts compromised;..and much, much more.

Best Practices

Twitter Will Help You Be Nice

Twitter is experimenting with a new moderation tool that will warn users before they post replies that contain what the company says is “harmful” language.

Twitter tests a warning message that tells users to rethink offensive replies

When things get heated, you may say things you don’t mean. To let you rethink a reply, we’re running a limited experiment on iOS with a prompt that gives you the option to revise your reply before it’s published if it uses language that could be harmful.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) May 5, 2020

Possible New Twitter Features

Twitter is considering adding new features for businesses that would make their profiles more like a business listing.

Google Podcasts Gets Analytics

Google has unveiled Google Podcasts Manager an analytics tool for its podcast platform.

Google Web Vitals

Google announced Web Vitals, an initiative to provide web developers and website owners with a unified set of metrics for building websites with user experience and performance in mind.

Facebook Overlords

Facebook announced it’s Oversight Board. Kara Swisher describes it as “an independent panel has all the hallmarks of the United Nations, except potentially much less effective.”

Ryan Reynalds’ PowerPoint Commercial

Ryan Reynolds’ sales pitch for Mint Mobile.

In new Mint Mobile ad, Ryan Reynolds proves that he can make even a PowerPoint funny

Wendy’s Online Scavenger Hunt

This week, Wendy’s gave Twitter followers a chance to win $5,000 and free food in a digital scavenger hunt across the internet.

Wendy’s sends Twitter fans on digital scavenger hunt across the internet

129 hiding spots and you found every one of ‘em. But there’s still one left. And it’s big. $1000 in Wendy’s food big. Tomorrow morning at 12 ET the hunt for the final code begins. Y’all ready for this? https://t.co/H9bM7sepFq pic.twitter.com/JyG7o9J5zC— Wendy’s (@Wendys) May 7, 2020

Progressive WFH

Flo has tech issues and Jamie screws up a sales role playing zoom call.

Amazon’s Upload

‘Upload’ is a comedic new Amazon Prime series that deals with the digital afterlife by creator Greg Daniels.

How ‘The Office’ creator Greg Daniels designed the future in his new Amazon Prime show, ‘Upload’

Copy & Paste IRL

Instead of projecting digital images into the physical world, these apps bring the physical into the digital.

4/10 – Cut & paste your surroundings to Photoshop

Code: https://t.co/cVddH3u3ik

Book: @HOLOmagazine
Garment: SS17 by @thekarentopacio
Type: Sainte Colombe by @MinetYoann @ProductionType
Technical Insights: ↓#ML #AR #AI #AIUX #Adobe #Photoshop pic.twitter.com/LkTBe0t0rF— Cyril Diagne (@cyrildiagne) May 3, 2020

Worst Practices

Jimmy Kimmel Screws Up

Jimmy Kimmel edited a video to make it look like Mike Pence carried empty boxes into a nursing home – and it went viral with more than one million views.

No. Mike Pence Did Not Deliver Empty Boxes To A Nursing Home For A Publicity Stunt

it would appear that @vp was joking about carrying empty boxes for a staged publicity stunt. The full video reveals that he was carrying full boxes for a staged publicity stunt. My apologies. I know how dearly this administration values truth. https://t.co/hI9cO4lxcX— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) May 8, 2020

GoDaddy Hosting Hacked

On May 4, 2020, GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest website hosting providers, disclosed that the SSH credentials of approximately 28,000 GoDaddy hosting accounts were compromised by an unauthorized attacker.

28,000 GoDaddy Hosting Accounts Compromised

Shiny New Stuff

BL’s Finds

David’s Finds

Politics

It’s official! Whatever anyone may have previously thought of Steve Mnuchin he’s officially an asshole.— Axl Rose (@axlrose) May 6, 2020