November 4, 2021

Updates:

✔️ Facebook – now Meta - is still not happy with Apple, and its insistence on taking a 30% cut of fan subscriptions, along with any other in-app purchase. Click here to learn more about this update.

✔️Instagram has announced that IG posts shared in tweets will appear with preview cards once again, helping to improve cross-platform sharing. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Clubhouse is taking the next steps to maximize its audience appeal by adding support for more local languages, opening the door for a broader subset of users, and increased usage options within the app. Learn more here.

HOLIDAYS 11/5/2021:

• Love Your Red Hair Day

• Love Your Lawyer Day

• Fountain Pen

• American Football Day

• Redhead Day

• Jersey Day

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November 3, 2021

Updates:

✔️ Facebook has announced that it’s shutting down its facial recognition program, and that it will also delete all of its facial recognition files, meaning that it’ll no longer be able to identify people in posted images. Learn more about this update here.

✔️ Instagram will host a range of shopping-based broadcasts over the final two months of the year, including weekly interactive live-streams, starting this week. Learn more here.

✔️TikTok is looking to help more brands take the leap into TikTok content creation with a new set of detailed, step-by-step guides on how to create some of the most common, engaging video types on the platform. Click here to read TikTok’s full content overview guide.

HOLIDAYS 11/4/2021:

• Use Your Common Sense Day

• Men Make Dinner Day

• Project Management Day

• Candy Day

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November 2, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook has partnered with several high profile TikTok creators to put a more light-hearted, trending spin on their corporate re-branding effort. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Facebook launched two new certificate courses that can help, with the first focusing on advanced marketing analytics, and the second looking at AR creation and development, helping to advance your skills in these rising areas of demand. Hearn more about Facebook’s various certificate courses here.

✔️Instagram has launched a new ‘Add Yours’ sticker for Stories, which enables users to prompt others to respond to their Stories content, in order to create more engaging reply threads to Stories posts. Click here to learn more.

✔️Pinterest is looking to lean into the rising live-stream commerce trend, which has already gained huge traction in China, with its own series of live shopping events, via a new initiative called ‘Pinterest TV’. Read more about this update here.

HOLIDAYS 11/3/2021:

• Stress Awareness Day

• Sandwich Day

• Smart Home Day

• Housewife’s Day 

• Cliche Day

• Jellyfish Day

• Homemaker Day

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November 1, 2021

Updates:

✔️ Facebook’s testing out a new way to host more focused public chats in the app, via a new ‘Spotlight Conversation’ post option, which, when enabled, separates replies from specific users into a new chat thread. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Twitter has opened up its new ‘Super Follow’ option to all users on iOS, which will provide more monetization potential for creators, expanding the capacity for them to draw direct income from their biggest fans. Click here to learn more.

HOLIDAYS 11/2/2021:

• Deviled Egg Day

• Dynamic Harmlessness Day

• Day of the Dead

• All Souls Day

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October 29, 2021

Updates:

✔️ From now on, Facebook’s overarching company name will be ‘Meta’. Read the article here.

✔️Facebook has previewed the next stages of Digital Connection at its annual Connect AR/VR conference, including new AR tools, advanced VR options and other, longer-term hardware projects that are set to become central to the new Facebook model. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Twitter has officially launched Spaces recording to selected hosts on iOS. Click here to learn more.

✔️Recap of this week’s news

HOLIDAYS:

For the month of November 2021

• Native American Heritage Month

• Manatee Awareness Month

• Pomegranate Month

• Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month

• Novel Writing Month

• World Vegan Month

• Adoption Month

• Movember

Saturday is

• Checklist Day

• Hug A Sheep Day

• Candy Corn Day

• Haunted Refrigerator Night

• Speak Up For Service Day

• Text Your Ex Day

Sunday is

• Halloween

• Books For Treats Day

• Girl Scout Founder’s Day

• Doorbell Day

• National Knock Knock Joke Day

• World Savings Day

• Magic Day

• Caramel Apple Day

• Visit a Cemetery Day

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October 28, 2021

Updates:

✔️Instagram has announced that links are now being made available in Instagram Stories for all users, not just those with 10k followers or verified accounts. Learn more about this update here.

✔️Twitter’s looking to get more people tuning into Spaces chats by highlighting the best conversations as they happen within the Explore tab, which could result in a big boost in exposure for some chats. Click here to learn more.

✔️LinkedIn’s looking to facilitate more opportunities for freelancers with the expansion of its Services Marketplace,  which essentially builds upon its ‘Services’ listings for profiles, designed to better enable brands and freelancers to connect. Read the article here.

✔️LinkedIn announced some new features for LinkedIn Company Pages which will help you better align with the next stage of the process. Learn more here.

✔️Google's looking to give kids and parents more control over how their image is used online, with a new, simplified process for those under the age of 18 to request removal pictures of themselves from Google Search results. Go to this link to fill in the removal request form. Click here to learn more about Google’s new removal process.

HOLIDAYS 10/29/2021 :

• Internet Day

• Cat Day

• Bandana Day

• Breadstick Day

• Frankenstein Friday

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October 27, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook used to be the leading platform of choice for youth social engagement, but over time, it’s lost that cool factor, and become more of a haven for older users, as evidenced in this data included in the recent Facebook Files leaks. Read the article here.

✔️Twitter has posted its Q3 2021 performance numbers, showing steady increases in both users and revenue. But steady may not be enough, given the platform’s ambitious growth targets, while its ongoing investment into new projects doesn’t appear to be paying off as it likely would have hoped. Learn more about this update here.

✔️LinkedIn continues to see ‘record levels’ of engagement, with user sessions up 19% in the most recent quarter, as reported by parent company Microsoft. Check it out here.

HOLIDAYS 10/28/2021 :

• Plush Animal Lover’s DAy

• Animation Day

• Chocolate Day

• First Responders Day

• Immigrants Day

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October 26, 2021

Updates:

✔️Facebook launched a new series of virtual training sessions for female business owners, in celebration of Women’s Small Business Month, which provide tips and insights to help female entrepreneurs succeed in the post-COVID landscape. Click here to find out more about Facebook’s #SheMeansBusiness events.

✔️The Australian Government will consider a new bill that would force social media companies to obtain parental consent for users under the age of 16, or face hefty fines if caught. Read the article here.

✔️TikTok has launched a new video tips series which is designed to help marketers understand the key elements of the app, and create better TikTok campaigns. Learn more here.

✔️Clubhouse is looking to add more context to in-app discussions with a new Pinned Links feature, which will let you attach any URL to the top of the room display. Read the article here.

HOLIDAYS 10/27/2021 :

• Black Cat Day

• Navy Day

• National American Beer Day

• Mentoring Day

• World Day of Audiovisual Heritage

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