Instagram has added some new features to help you celebrate Lunar New Year, including new, themed stickers and a custom AR effect.
Holidays 2/2/2022:
National Signing Day
Girls and Women in Sports Day
World Play Your Ukulele Day
Tater Tot Day
Candlemas Day
Crepe Day
Ukulele Day
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Facebook has announced that they are removing video profile images as of February 7th, if you have a video profile image being reverted back to a still picture instead.
Meta is going to integrate all of its messaging tools,Messenger, IG direct message, and WhatsASpp.
LinkedIn announced that they are shutting down LinkedIn Lite, their pared-back version of the platform, designed for users in regions with more restricted connectivity and data access provisions.
Holidays for the month of February 2022:
Black History Month
Vegan Cuisine Month
North American Inclusion Month
Bake For Family Fun month
Bird-Feeding Month
Hot Breakfast Month
Library Lovers’ Month
Responsible Pet Owners Month
Snack Food Month
And tomorrow is:
National Freedom Day
Chinese New Year
Baked Alaska Day
Serpent Day
Decorating with Candy Day
Car Insurance Day
National Get Up Day
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Instagram has updated its Poll sticker for Instagram Stories, which now lets you add up to four response options for your poll, doubling your response choices. Learn more about this update here.
In other Instagram news, they’ve outlined the new display of scheduled live streams on creator profiles. Click here to read more about this update.
Recap of this week’s news.
Holidays:
Saturday is
Puzzle Day
Seed Swap Day
Cornchip Day
Freethinkers Day
Sunday is
Inane Answering Message Day
Croissant Day
Draw a Dinosaur Day
Escape Day
Yodel For Your Neighbors Day
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TikTok is rolling out a new ‘Instant Page’ shopping display option, which will let you connect your TikTok ads through to a lightweight, native landing page, built within TikTok itself, which will load up to 11 times faster than standard mobile pages. Learn more about this update here.
Holidays 1/28/2022:
Daisy Day
Fun At Work Day
International Lego Day
Global Community Engagement Day
Data Privacy Day
National Kazoo Day
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Meta is developing a new AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), which it says will eventually become the fastest AI supercomputer in the world, when it’s fully built out by mid-2022. Click here to read more technical details on Meta’s AI Research Supercluster project.
TikTok’s testing a new avatar feature that will let you create a digital character avatar based on a selfie, with facial expressions that will match your actual look. Learn more here.
Holidays 1/27/2022:
Chocolate Cake Day
World Breast Pumping Day
National Geographic Day
Clashing Clothes Day
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Twitter is developing this new thing called ‘Flocks’, which would let you select your ‘Flock’ of chosen Twitter users to be in your group that you can post specific tweets to. Click here to learn more about this update.
TikTok is reportedly working on bringing back the option to see who viewed your profile in the app over the preceding 30 days. Learn more here.
Holidays 1/26/2022:
Australia Day
Spouse’s Day
Green Juice Day
Peanut Brittle Day
Lotus 1-2-3 Day
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Instagram is expanding on its TikTok-like toolset by adding the capacity to remix all videos that people post in the app, not just Reels, increasing your options for creative response and engagement.
Twitter is launching its NFT profile display option, though only to Twitter Blue subscribers in iOS in the initial phase. Click here to learn more.
Holidays:
Opposite Day
Plan for Vacation Day
Observe the Weather Day
Speak Up and Succeed Day
A Room of One’s Own Day
Irish Coffee Day
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Instagram has launched an initial test of its new Subscriptions option for Instagram creators, so you can make money on the platform. Learn more here.
LinkedIn has added three new courses to its LinkedIn Marketing Labs education hub, Building an Organic Presence with LinkedIn Pages (20 min), Building a Full-Funnel Content Marketing Strategy (30 min), Creative Design for LinkedIn (10 min). Learn more here.
Recap of this week’s news
Holidays:
Saturday is
Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day
Hot Sauce Day
Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day
Celebration of Life Day
Polka Dot Day
Sunday is
Pie Day
Measure Your Feet Day
Handwriting Day
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