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Social Media thoughts, tips, tricks and discussions.

Founder @RobertWallis πŸ€“
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Signal introduces group calls

Details here on the Signal blog.

Are you a Signal user.
Have you tried it out?

#Signal #Feature
Twitter stops prompting users to quote tweet first.

More details in this Twitter thread.

#Twitter #News
A, B, & C - Same Thing - Different Views

I've written a blog post for the @TeamFordzilla community to try to help explain how I've set up their community space, but they are struggling to understand.

Any suggestions about how to speed up understanding, especially for new Telegram users?

#Telegram #Discussion
What can Telegram be used for?

Lots of things!
The limiting factor is your imagination.

Example:
A "Practice Room" for @SingAtSix

Clunky? Neat? ... What are your thoughts?

#Telegram #Discussion
The future of Telegram

As Telegram approaches 500 million active users, how will they pay? πŸ€”

Some points from the announcement today.

πŸ‘‰ Telegram will Not sell.

πŸ‘‰ Telegram will begin to generate revenue in 2021. Most users will hardly notice any change.

πŸ‘‰ All the features that are currently free will stay free.

πŸ‘‰ Messaging will remain ad-free.

πŸ‘‰ Introduction of a native Ad Platform for public one-to-many channels – one that is user-friendly, respects privacy and allows Telegram to cover the costs of servers and traffic.

πŸ‘‰ If Telegram starts earning money, the community should also benefit.


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Nice sentiments, but short on details.

#Telegram #Discussion
The last few days I've been working on a new (local) social project which I hope will take off in 2021.

During that process what's been surprising to me is how little Twitter is used generally by business.

It's common for businesses to have a Facebook page and an Instagram channel: but seem rather rare to also feature a Twitter channel.

Do you agree?

Do you think it's down to Twitter's failing to connect with business, or an unavoidable result of Facebook's dominance in the social space?

#Twitter #Facebook #Discussion
If an image is worth a 1000 words ...

I hope that this image can help future publishers, for the @MyStadtKoeln network, to understand how each local channel is connected a group (for channel comments and more).

Here's hoping πŸ€“
View Followed Hashtags on Instagram

You have been able to "follow" a hashtag on Instagram for ages, but I cannot (now) for the life of me now see how to view all the hashtags followed by the account I am currently using.

Any tips?

#Instagram #Discussion
Robert Wallis - AMA

Ask Me Anything ... within reason πŸ˜‰

Note, that there should always be a reason for posting on social media and that reason should be quite clear to viewers.

The reason for this post is that I would like to have a fun @RobertWallis related discussion appear on my "About Robert Wallis" page. I link to that page from my social profiles around the web.

So full disclosure: your "comments" along with my replies will also appear there.

So, having been as up-front as I think I can be .... ask-me-anything. Go!
Find those contact joined Telegram notifications annoying? 😠

πŸ’‘ Uncheck this! πŸ˜‰

Settings > Notifications and Sounds.
#Telegram
Once you get it, it's really quite simple

One, Two, Thee views of the same message.

Get it?

Most people do not yet understand this, which is a bit of a roadblock. This unique implementation for "comments" offers some interesting possibilities. That is the discussion I would like to have here.
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#Telegram #Discussion
THIS quote is worth thinking about ...

"By removing the manipulative algorithms that have become synonymous with 2010s technology platforms, Telegram channels restore transparency and integrity to public β€œone-to-many” communication."

If had to reduce down to one idea why I think that Telegram channels are a corporate or brand communication channel that is really worth considering, it would be because the user decides whether they want notifications for updates made to a channel.

Remember the first flush of social media back in the day, when a reasonable number of people would see updates from your Facebook page?

With a Telegram channel ALL followers who want notifications from a Telegram channel get notifications. That is a decent value proposition.

Quote source. #Telegram Social Media #Discussion
ONE social media feature that you would would like to see implemented.

What and where?
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What social media knowledge, or understanding, do you see users most commonly lacking?
Twitter not embedding YouTube videos

I can't find any official response, but there are plenty of people asking why YouTube video links no longer embed the YouTube video in tweets where a YouTube link has been shared.

Fingers crossed this isn't permanent 🀞

#Twitter #Fail
Do you use TikTok? Do you like it?

Anything you'd like to share: tips, thoughts, examples etc, please share in the comments πŸ™

#TikTok #Discussion
YouTube hashtag pages

I wrote a bit about hashtags for YouTube last year. Now the hashtag pages have been fully rolled out.

The example pictured is for the @TeamFordzilla's hashtag.

I would expect YouTube to surface links to hashtag pages in more places in the near future, so it's definitely worth strategically adding hashtags to your video uploads in 2021.

#YouTube #Strategy