Facebook continued to hammer home the importance of small businesses on its platform with a new video from Facebook for Business, “The Smallest Sponsors.”
https://www.adweek.com/social-marketing/facebook-salutes-small-businesses-for-sponsoring-youth-sports/
Discord allows users to purchase Boosts for their favorite servers, which gives those servers access to additional content and features, such as additional emoji slots and an animated server icon. If you’ve purchased a Nitro subscription on Discord, you receive two server Boosts that you can use to instantly boost your favorite server(s). Nitro subscribers also receive a 30% discount on all future server Boosts. A server Boost costs $4.99 per month, but Nitro subscribers can purchase one for $3.49 instead.
https://www.adweek.com/media/discord-how-to-boost-a-server-on-mobile/
YouTube said it removed more than 1.8 million videos during the second quarter of 2021 for violations of its child safety policies.
https://www.adweek.com/media/youtube-over-1-8m-videos-removed-in-q2-2021-for-violating-child-safety-policies/
To celebrate Halloween 2021, the Messenger From Facebook application has been updated with a Spooky Space chat theme and a Spooky Space sticker pack. While the chat theme adds skulls, jack-o-lanterns and more to a conversation’s background, the Spooky Space sticker pack features images of aliens and monsters.
https://www.adweek.com/media/messenger-from-facebook-how-to-use-the-spooky-space-sticker-pack/
Creators of rooms on social audio application Clubhouse can now pin links to the top of room pages.
https://www.adweek.com/media/clubhouse-adds-pinned-links-feature/
In honor of Halloween, Instagram has a Spooky Space chat theme that can add a purple background, skulls, jack-o-lanterns and more to Instagram Direct conversations. This Spooky Space theme is also available in the Messenger From Facebook application.
https://www.adweek.com/media/instagram-how-to-use-the-spooky-space-chat-theme/
Followers of Twitter accounts tied to Revue newsletters can now subscribe to those newsletters directly via tweets on desktop and mobile web, with Android and iOS to be added soon.
https://www.adweek.com/media/twitter-users-can-now-subscribe-to-revue-newsletters-directly-via-tweets/
Billboard and Twitter debuted the Billboard Hot Trending Songs Powered by Twitter chart Friday.
https://www.adweek.com/media/billboard-hot-trending-songs-powered-by-twitter-chart-debuts/
Despite a constant stream of rhetoric asserting otherwise, a new study conducted by Twitter found that right-leaning news outlets see greater algorithmic amplification on its platform compared with left-leaning news outlets, and tweets posted by accounts from the political right receive more algorithmic amplification than the political left when studied as a group.
https://www.adweek.com/media/is-twitters-algorithm-actually-biased-in-favor-of-right-leaning-content/
Twitter extended the ability to host Twitter Spaces to all users via Android and iOS this week.
https://www.adweek.com/media/all-twitter-users-on-android-ios-can-now-host-twitter-spaces/