November 18, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram has confirmed that it’s shutting down its standalone messaging app ‘Threads’, which it launched back in 2019, essentially as a Snapchat alternative for connecting close friends. Learn more here.

✔️Instagram has announced the addition of a much-requested option – the capability to delete individual posts from within a previously uploaded carousel. Click here to learn more.

✔️Twitter’s rolling out an updated tweet analytics display, available on each tweet, which will provide more specific performance insight, with extra engagement elements listed in the data. Learn more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 11/19/2021:

• International Mens Day

• World Toilet Day

• Have A Bad Day Day

• Play Monopoly Day

• National Camp Day

• Women’s Entrepreneurship Day

• Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day

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November 17, 2021

Updates:

✔️ Today, Meta – the company formerly known as Facebook – has provided some new insight into its work on developing haptic gloves, which would let you feel and interact with virtual items in digital space. Learn more here.

✔️Instagram is now making its badges in Instagram Live broadcasts available to all eligible profiles in the US. Click here to learn more about this update.

HOLIDAYS 11/18/2021:

• Housing Day

• Mickey Mouse Day

• Use Less Stuff Day

• Adoption Day

• Princess Day

• Apple Cider Day

• World Philosophy Day

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November 16, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook is expanding tests of Neighborhoods, which is sort of like the Next Door app, only its a separate element within Facebook, which allows you to join specified local communities. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Twitter announced that it has acquired Threader, an app that lets you compile and share tweet threads in a more readable format, by simply tweeting ‘@threader_app compile’ within a thread reply chain. Click here to learn more.

HOLIDAYS 11/17/2021:

• Homemade Bread Day

• Unfriend Day

• Take a Hike Day

• Education Support Professionals Day

• Guinness World Records Day

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November 15, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook is adding Shops in Groups, which, as it sounds, adds a dedicated Shop option within your Facebook Group display.Learn more about this update here.

✔️TikTok is set to surpass 1.5 billion users in the next twelve months, as its cultural influence continues to spread around the world. Read the article here.

✔️In other TikTok news, they’ve launched a new content series called ‘The Roundup’, that shows you exactly how brands are leveraging TikTok to drive real business results. Click here to download issue one of ‘The Roundup’.

✔️Disney has announced a new partnership with TikTok which will let TikTok users choose from a range of Disney character voices for TikTok’s text-to-speech feature. Learn more here.

HOLIDAYS 11/16/2021:

• International Day For Tolerance

• Button Day

• Fast Food Day

• Have a Party with Your Bear Day

• Clarinet Day

• Entrepreneurs’ Day

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November 12, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram is once again adding more TikTok-inspired features into its app, with the addition of a new ‘Text to Speech’ option in Reels clips, which provides an artificial voice to read any text overlays you add to your clips, and new voice changer options to alter your vocal tones. Read the article here.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

HOLIDAYS:

Saturday is

• World Kindness Day

• Symphonic Metal Day

• Hug A Musician Day

Sunday is

• Operating Room Nurse Day

• Pickle Day

• Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day

• Children’s Day

• American Teddy Bear Day

• Remembrance Sunday

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November 11, 2021

Updates:

✔️If you are a Facebook advertiser, get ready to have a lot more targeting options disappear. Click here to learn more.

✔️Instagram is testing a new user wellbeing option called ‘Take a Break’, which will let you set reminders to take some time away from the app after a certain period of activity – either 10-, 20- or 30-minutes. Learn more about this update here.

✔️YouTube has announced that it’s making a change to the way dislikes are displayed on videos, with the dislike count to be made private, in order to limit misuse of the option. Learn more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 11/12/2021:

• Happy Hour day

• Fancy Rat & Mouse Day

• Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day

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November 10, 2021

Updates:

✔️This week, the business marketing team from Meta is hosting a range of video sessions which will feature internal experts offering advice and guidance to help you get your processes in line, and get the most out of the season. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Twitter has announced the first expansion of its Twitter Blue paid subscription offering, with users in the US and New Zealand now able to sign-up, in addition to those in Australia and Canada, while it’s also added more elements to the Blue program to entice more paying tweet customers into the fold. Read here to learn more.

✔️Pinterest is looking to help guide your holiday shopping with some new insights into rising gift trends on the platform, which includes fashion, beauty and gadget searches that are gaining traction in the app. Read Pinterest’s full gift trends overview here.

HOLIDAYS 11/11/2021:

• Origami Day

• Sundae Day

• Social Enterprise Day

• Singles Day

• National Metal Day

• Veterans Day

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November 9, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram has provided some quick tips to help you engage with your audience in the app. Learn more here.

✔️Twitter is rolling out its updated visual customization and editing tools to more users. Click here to learn more about this update.

✔️TikTok has published a new guide to help marketers maximize their holiday campaigns, which outlines key insights into usage trends, critical dates for planning, ad tips, seasonal templates and more. Download TikTok’s 16-page holiday guide here.

✔️Clubhouse has officially launched its new Replays feature, which will provide another way to utilize your Clubhouse chats, and get more value out of your audio sessions. Learn more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 11/10/2021:

• Sesame Street Day

• Top Up Day

• Area Code Day

• Forget-Me-Not Day

• Vanilla Cupcake Day

• Marine Corps Birtthday

• Accounting Day

• World Science Day for Peace and Development

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