October 13, 2022

• Meta is holding its Connect conference for 2022 today, where it’s announced a range of new, cutting-edge VR features, including a new Quest headset, new professional integrations to facilitate workplace collaboration, updated interaction tools, control devices, and soon, your VR avatar will actually have legs, so you won’t look like the genie from Aladdin floating around Meta’s VR spaces. Learn more here.

• Google has developed a new process that it’s calling Publisher Advertiser Identity Reconciliation, or ‘PAIR’ for short. Read the article here.

• Snapchat’s taking an interesting approach to Halloween this year, by allowing users to not only try on potential Halloween costumes via AR in the app, but also, to purchase any outfit that they’ve digitally tried on direct from the display. Learn more about this update here.

Holidays 10/14/2022:

• Dessert Day

• Boss’ Day

• Vet Nurse Day

• World Standards Day

• Be Bald and Be Free Day

• I Love You Day

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October 12, 2022

• Twitter has updated its Professional Accounts option with a new analytics display, which provides an updated overview of your overall account performance. Learn more here:

• Last week, Twitter officially rolled out its new 3D Twemoji stickers within its image editor options, replacing the previous 2D versions of the same. Read the update here.

Holidays 10/13/2022:

• Train Your Brain Day

• No Bra Day

• M&M Day

• Disaster Day

• World Sight Day

• English Language Day

• Transfer Money to Your Son Day

• International Skeptics Day

• International Day for National Disaster Reduction

• International Day for Failure

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October 11, 2022

• Meta has announced the line-up for its second Creator Week event, which will include a combination of IRL and online presentations, panels, displays and more, to be held in the first week of November this year. Learn more about Creator Week 2022 here.

• Meta has reported that it’s detected 400 apps, this year alone, which offer fake features and tools that are designed to lure people to log into these apps with their Facebook credentials, which then gives developers access to their data and information. Click here to read the whole article.

• TikTok has added a new ‘Photo Mode’ for still images in the app. As if to say, hey Instagram, you’re going to copy everything we do, well watch this. Learn more about t his update here.

Holidays 10/12/2022:

• Emergency Nurses Day

• Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work  & School Day

• International Top Spinning Day

• Savings Day

• Freethought Day

• Farmers Day

• Fossil Day

• Take Your Parents to Lunch Day

• Curves Day

• Stop Bullying Day

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October 10, 2022

• Meta sees Reels as ‘the future of video’ on its platforms, with engagement with short-form content being one of the only positive growth trends across its apps at present. Read the article here.

• Instagram has announced that it’s testing out some new ad options. Learn more here.

Holidays 10/11/2022:

• Coming Out Day

• Black Girl Day Off

• International Day of the Girl Child

• It’s My Party Day

• Face Your Fears Day

• Spread Joy Day

• Ownn Business Day

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October 7, 2022

• Recap of this week’s news

Holidays:

On Saturday

• Universal Music Day

• Chess Day

• I love Yarn Day

• World Octopus Day

• Pierogi Day

• American Touch Tag Day

And on Sunday

• International Beer and Pizza Day

• Fire Prevention Day

• World Post Day

• Scrubs Day

• Curious Events Day

• Digitool Day

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October 6, 2022

• Twitter’s developing a range of tweet status indicators…they are preset little status updates..you can’t create your own.. I can see how these might come in handy… Read the article here.

• TikTok continues to push ahead with its live-stream commerce initiatives, in the hopes that it can replicate the success that it’s seen with in China in other markets around the world. Learn more about this update here.

• YouTube’s trying out a new way to improve the accuracy of its automated captions, by letting users recommend updates and revisions based on the captions displayed. Click here to learn more.

Holidays 10/7/2022

• World Smile DAy

• Bookshop Day

• International Day of Peaceful Communication

• Kids Music Day

• Manufacturing Day

• Body Language Day

• Forgiveness and Happiness Day

• Frappe Day

• Inner Beauty Day

• Led Light Day

• World Cotton Day

• You Matter to Me Day

• Bathtub Day

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October 5, 2022

• It’s been in testing for a while, but Instagram has expanded access to a new option which lets some creators add multiple links to their IG bio. Learn more about this update here.

• Twitter has finally launched the first stage of the roll-out of its new tweet editing feature, with Twitter Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand now able to revise their tweeted content for 30 minutes after posting. Click here to read the article.

Holidays 10/6/2022

• Transfer Money to Your Daughter Day

• Physician Assistant Day

• Noodle Day

• Mad Hatter Day

• Badger Day

• Inbox Zero Day

• Coaches Day

• Plus Size Appreciation Day

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October 4, 2022

• For Twitter/Elon Musk takeover conflict, the court trial now set for October 17th, and they are currently in the ‘discovery’ phase, which is the period in which both legal teams provide their items of evidence for reference in the hearing. Read the article here.

• In other Twitter news, they launched a public test of a new ‘Views’ count on some users’ tweets, which displays the total number of times that each of your tweets was seen in the app. Learn more about this update here.

Holidays 10/5/2022

• Balloons Around the World Day

• World Teacher’s DAy

• Do Something Nice Day

• Global James Bond Day

• Random Acts of Poetry Day

• Get Funky Day

• Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day

• Yom Kippur

• Coffee with a Cop Day

• International Walk to School Day

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