Social Media Weekly

TikTok Prevents Stops New Posts and Livestreams in Russia, Facebook Testing New Desktop Layout, Twitter May Be Building Support for Podcasts, Meta’s NPE Releases a To-Do App, and Snapchat Turns Off Heatmap on Ukraine.

Meta’s Horizon Worlds Sees Increase in Users, Snapchat Lets Users Change Their Usernames, YouTube Ramps up Misinformation Fight, Meta Restricts Profile Image Frames, and Survey Shows Users Don’t Like Unsolicited DMs on LinkedIn

Twitter’s Users Grown by 6 million in Q4, LinkedIn Tests Switching Off Political Posts in Feed, Snapchat Tests Slotting Ads mid-roll, Likes Come to Instagram Stories, and Twitter Testing Variable Speeds on Videos and Audios.

Facebook Lost 1 Million Daily Active Users, Instagram Adds Features to Reels, Twitter Testing Article Length Posts, YouTube raked in $28.8 Billion in Ad revenue, and Snap May Be Working on a Selfie Drone.

Meta Gets into NFT space, Messenger Kids Launches Digital Literacy Program, Instagram Will Reduce Reach of Hate and Bullying Posts, Meta Integrates WhatsApp into Workplace, and TikTok Brings Back Creepy Function