Snap Users Are Unhappy With Latest Bitmoji Update
Snapchatters certainly don’t like the company messing with their stuff, and the processes that they’ve become increasingly accustomed to in the app. Last week, Snap’s Bitmoji team announced an update to the way that people’s Bitmoji avatars would be presented in the app, including more advanced hair textures, face shading, and body proportions for their […]
Google Launches Emoji Reactions in Gmail
So, this is not really a social media update, but it is clearly influenced by social media usage behaviors. And most of us use Gmail, in at least some capacity, so… Google has announced that it’s adding emoji reactions into Gmail, giving you a quicker, simpler way to respond to your emails, without having to […]
X Launches Option To Restrict Post Replies To Verified Users
After testing it over the past few months, X has now officially launched its new audience control option, which will enable users to limit their post replies to verified accounts only in the app. As you can see in this example, in addition to X’s three existing reply control options, which it first added back […]
Instagram Experiments With New Stickers To Facilitate Holiday Season Engagement
While it continues to add new features to Threads, the Instagram team is also building more engagement elements into its main app as well, including a bunch of new stickers that it’s looking to have ready for the upcoming holiday season. First off, Instagram’s developing a new “App” sticker, which looks to be a way […]
Threads Looks to Add Trending Topics, GIFs, Voice Posts and More
As Meta looks to rapidly evolve its Twitter-like Threads app, in order to scoop up as many cast-offs from X as possible, it’s seemingly close to adding a range of much-requested features that could help to bring it into parity with the Elon Musk owned app, or even better it in some instances. First off, […]
Google Launches Emoji Reactions in Gmail
So, this is not really a social media update, but it is clearly influenced by social media usage behaviors. And most of us use Gmail, in at least some capacity, so… Google has announced that it’s adding emoji reactions into Gmail, giving you a quicker, simpler way to respond to your emails, without having to […]
Instagram Experiments with New Stickers to Facilitate Engagement in the Upcoming Holiday Season
While it continues to add new features to Threads, the Instagram team is also building more engagement elements into its main app as well, including a bunch of new stickers that it’s looking to have ready for the upcoming holiday season. First off, Instagram’s developing a new “App” sticker, which looks to be a way […]
X Launches New Option to Restrict Your Post Replies to Verified Users Only
After testing it over the past few months, X has now officially launched its new audience control option, which will enable users to limit their post replies to verified accounts only in the app. As you can see in this example, in addition to X’s three existing reply control options, which it first added back […]
Snap Users are Unhappy with the Latest Bitmoji Update
Snapchatters certainly don’t like the company messing with their stuff, and the processes that they’ve become increasingly accustomed to in the app. Last week, Snap’s Bitmoji team announced an update to the way that people’s Bitmoji avatars would be presented in the app, including more advanced hair textures, face shading, and body proportions for their […]
TikTok Announces Themed AR Effects and Top Hashtags for Halloween
TikTok has announced its latest Halloween activations, including a range of spooky-themed AR effects and visual tools to help users take part in the event. The main element of TikTok’s Halloween push is make-up inspired effects, which will help to guide users on their Halloween looks IR, or re-create freaky monsters from horror movies. There’s […]