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July 21, 2022

  • Delaware’s Court of Chancery has ruled in Twitter’s favor for an expedited trial in the Musk acquisition case, with Musk and Co. given just five days to present their argument as to why Musk should be allowed to pull out of the deal. The case has been scheduled for October.

  • Meta has launched  payments between users and businesses within Messenger chat.

  • YouTube’s rolling out some new updates for Shorts,...they are adding a new ‘Cut’ option which will let Shorts creators sample a small segment (1 to 5 seconds) from eligible Shorts and VODs to be used as the intro to their Short clip.

  • Snapchat is finally launching a web version of its app.

Holidays 7/21/2022:

  • Hammock Day

  • Mango Day

  • Lion’s Share Day

  • World Brain Day

 
 

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July 20, 2022

  • Meta has published a new guide to help parents talk to their kids about these risky practices, and the key focus points that you should be looking to emphasize in such discussions. Read Meta’s full conversation overview guide here.

Holidays 7/20/2022:

  • Junk Food Day

  • Comin Con

  • Invite An Alien to Live with You Day

  • Be Someone Day

  • Craft For Your Local Shelters Day

  • No Pet Store Puppies Day

  • Take a Monkey to Lunch Day

 
 

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July 19, 2022

  • Facebook is experimenting with potentially letting users create up to 5 separate profiles all tied back to one master account.

  • Meta’s looking to improve its monetization and community-building tools for creators, with new subscriber-only features that will better incentivize users to sign-up and support creators via subscriptions.

Holidays 7/20/2022:

  • Moon Day

  • Chess Day

  • Fortune Cookie Day

  • Lollipop Day

  • World Jump Day

  • Space Exploration Day

 
 

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July 18, 2022

  • Are you adding alt text captions to your uploaded images on Twitter?You should be, and now, Twitter’s going to prompt you to do exactly that, with new pop-ups being shown to some users alerting them to the benefits of alternative text summaries within tweets.

  • Reddit announced a new integration with GIPHY that will let you insert GIPHY GIFs into comment streams within the app.

Holidays 7/19/2022:

  • International Retainer Day

  • Football Day

  • Words with Friends Day

  • Stick Out Your Tongue Day

  • World Product Day

 
 

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July 15, 2022

  • TikTok has launched a new way for you to automatically filter out videos that include words or hashtags that you don’t want to see in your feed. You can block specific hashtags via the ‘Details’ tab.

  • Recap of this week’s news

Holidays:

Saturday

  • Corn Fritter Day

  • Guinea Pig Appreciation Day

  • Fresh Spinach Day

  • Cherry Day

  • Personal Chef Day

  • Wedding Invitation Day

Sunday:

  • Ice Cream Day

  • World Emoji Day

  • Tattoo Day

  • Day for International Justice

  • Lottery Day

 
 

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July 14, 2022

  • Instagram has a new Live Producer tool, which will let you stream from a desktop PC, and via various third-party streaming platforms.

  • After developing the option for the best part of the last year, Twitter is now giving all users the capacity to ‘unmention’ themselves from a Twitter chat, which lets you deactivate your profile links within conversations that you no longer feel comfortable taking part in.

  • So you know doubt have heard that Twitter filed suit against Elon Musk. This stunt he pulled by saying he was going to buy it for 44 Billion and then backing out really has caused a lot of damage to Twitter.

Holidays 7/15/2022

  • Be a Dork Day

  • I Love Horses Day

  • Give Something Away Day

  • Clean Beauty Day

  • World Youth Skills Day

 
 

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July 13, 2022

  • Meta has announced that, as of next month, Meta VR users will no longer need to have a Facebook account to create a VR profile, which, up till now, has been a requirement of VR connection.

  • Twitter held a briefing with reporters in which it gave more context as to how it polices fake and spam accounts.

Holidays 7/14/2022

  • Break Free From The Big Three Day

  • Pandemonium Day

  • Tape Measure Day

  • Shark Awareness Day

 
 

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July 12, 2022

  • Elon Musk has officially filed a motion with the SEC to terminate his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, based on Twitter’s failure to provide accurate information on the number of fake accounts on its platform.

Holidays 7/13/2022

  • French Fry Day

  • International Rock Day

  • Embrace your Geekness Day

  • National Barbershop Music Appreciation Day

 
 

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