Is YOUR social media use more or less satisfying than it was ten years ago?
Anonymous Poll
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More YouTube layout tests
Last time I showed how YouTube was testing moving the video description from below the video to the right hand column. Now YouTube are also toying with moving the comments section too.
Accessing the description seems particularly difficult, with just a tiny clickable area to launch the description pannel. Comments gets a more visible clickable pill next to a new "subscribe" layout.
Thoughts?
Is anyone else seeing these A/B tests?
#YouTube
Last time I showed how YouTube was testing moving the video description from below the video to the right hand column. Now YouTube are also toying with moving the comments section too.
Accessing the description seems particularly difficult, with just a tiny clickable area to launch the description pannel. Comments gets a more visible clickable pill next to a new "subscribe" layout.
Thoughts?
Is anyone else seeing these A/B tests?
#YouTube
Instagram Favourites
"Today, we’re introducing Favorites and Following, two new ways to choose what you see in your feed."
My view: A half baked power user feature.
A maximum of fifty accounts can be favourited. That's an abitrarily low numer for power users, who are (mostly) the only users that will use this feature.
Your thoughts?
#Instagram #Feature #Discussion
"Today, we’re introducing Favorites and Following, two new ways to choose what you see in your feed."
My view: A half baked power user feature.
A maximum of fifty accounts can be favourited. That's an abitrarily low numer for power users, who are (mostly) the only users that will use this feature.
Your thoughts?
#Instagram #Feature #Discussion
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How digitally adept do you consider yourself to be?
1 == Very adept 3 == Average 5 == awkward NOTE: answers are anonymous.
1 == Very adept 3 == Average 5 == awkward NOTE: answers are anonymous.
Anonymous Poll
29%
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14%
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29%
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14%
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14%
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You can now choose up to three posts or Reels to pin to the top of your Instagram profile.
#Instagram #Feature
#Instagram #Feature
Twitter Community Invites (Suggestion)
Currently community invites are sent via Twitter Direct Message.
This seems like a flawed approach when DMs will often NOT trigger any notification, but rely on an inactive user actually going to look for unseen message request.
I would suggest a better approach could be to expose community invites in the general community area (user/communities).
There also needs to be user control over who can issue invites.
#Twitter #Discussion
Currently community invites are sent via Twitter Direct Message.
This seems like a flawed approach when DMs will often NOT trigger any notification, but rely on an inactive user actually going to look for unseen message request.
I would suggest a better approach could be to expose community invites in the general community area (user/communities).
There also needs to be user control over who can issue invites.
#Twitter #Discussion
Twitter Communities now have separate hashtag pages.
A strange move? From the platform where hashtags started, community hashtags only return results from within the community.
This is how hashtags work in Telegram channels and groups.
Maybe useful for large groups in the future, but also reliant on user behaviour. Useful or not?
#Twitter #Feature
A strange move? From the platform where hashtags started, community hashtags only return results from within the community.
This is how hashtags work in Telegram channels and groups.
Maybe useful for large groups in the future, but also reliant on user behaviour. Useful or not?
#Twitter #Feature
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Is this legal?
The most common "competition" I see on social media, mostly on Instagram, currently is this: to enter follow X and Y accounts and tag X of your friends.
Is this kind of activity legal? Both in terms of platform policies, it's clearly gamification of the algorithm. And in terms of actual law, as the post is I assume a paid promotion on the publishing channel sponsored by the other channel that one is required to follow.
#Discussion
The most common "competition" I see on social media, mostly on Instagram, currently is this: to enter follow X and Y accounts and tag X of your friends.
Is this kind of activity legal? Both in terms of platform policies, it's clearly gamification of the algorithm. And in terms of actual law, as the post is I assume a paid promotion on the publishing channel sponsored by the other channel that one is required to follow.
#Discussion
You can now (safely) quote Twitter community content.
Previously quoting a community tweet would have show "Tweet unavailable", but now it's been confirmed that community content can be quoted outside of a community.
Good news for community admins who have previously been unable to promote their communities by exposing top community content.
#Twitter
Previously quoting a community tweet would have show "Tweet unavailable", but now it's been confirmed that community content can be quoted outside of a community.
Good news for community admins who have previously been unable to promote their communities by exposing top community content.