January 16, 2024

• X announced the rollout of a peer-to-peer payment service named X Payments. Read the full article here.

• A recent study by researchers at Anthropic explored the possibility of training models to deceive, particularly in injecting exploits into secure code. Read the full article here.

• Meta has implemented new disclosure requirements for digitally altered political ads. Click here to learn more.

• Messenger introduced an enhancement displaying the number of likes and replies on a Threads post when shared in chat. Click here to learn more.

• YouTube introduced a new Shorts editing UI, simplifying the process of reformatting long-form content into Shorts. Read the full article here.

• Snapchat introduced new parental controls allowing you parents to restrict your teens' interaction with the app's AI chatbot, My AI. Read the full article here.

Holidays: 1/17/24

• Cable Car Day

• Kid Inventors’ Day

• Museum Selfie Day

• Customer Service Day

• Benjamin Franklin Day

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April 5, 2022

• Messenger has announced new Messenger Shortcuts, which are simple, universal commands you can use within your chats to more easily share announcements, make payments, activate app functionalities and more.

• YouTube’s testing a new way to react to certain elements of video clips with ‘Timed Reactions’, which are essentially emoji reactions that you can add to a specific frame in the playback.

Holidays 4/5/2022 :

• World Table Tennis Day

• Day of Hope 

• Army Day

• Bookmobile Day

• Tartan Day

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February 14, 2022

• Messenger announced some new features to coincide with Valentine’s Day, including expanded voice messages, voice message previews and split bill payments.

• Twitter’s first quarter in the post Jack Dorsey era seems to have gone okay, with the platform adding 6 million more users, and posting a 22% YoY increase in revenue.

• LinkedIn has a new test underway that will provide a way to simply switch off all politics-related posts and updates.

• Pinterest announced that they are bringing back their ‘Pinterest Presents’ conference for another year. The event will be held on March 10th. Click here to sign up to attend Pinterest Presents.

Holidays 2/15/2022:

• Single Awareness Day

• Gumdrop Day

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July 29, 2019

Updates:

• Facebook News: Instant Games will migrate from Messenger to Facebook and Facebook Gaming tab

• New Tool: 'AdInboxMe' helps you stay on top of your competitors' Facebook ad efforts by alerting you to new campaigns.

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December 18, 2018

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Updates:

• Facebook has added three new camera options to Messenger to help users spice up their holiday sharing.

• Facebook's looking to expand its video ad monetization options, while also outlining plans to take action against less engaging practices.