Instagram Threads rocked the internet when it debuted in early July 2023; the Meta-owned alternative to Twitter (recently renamed X) racked up more than 100 million users within hours of its launch. Instagram Threads is a text-based conversation app. You can create posts with up to 500 characters, and add links, photos and videos, too. […]
Artist’s rendering of former president Donald Trump in the center, having a discussion with his defense lawyer … [+]Todd Blanche (left) during his appearance in the Federal Courthouse, Washington on Thursday, August 3, 2023. Trump’s defense attorney John Lauro is facing U.S. Magistrates Judge Moxila Upadhyaya. Jack Smith is seated at the left. Trump pleaded […]
At Buffer, we are very fortunate to receive hundreds of feature requests every month. Our community is eager to help us improve, and it’s an absolute blessing. We’ve experimented with different processes for incorporating user feedback and ideas into our product and keeping our community informed of real-time updates, but it can be challenging to […]
Music on static posts or profiles feels very MySpace, but maybe there’s a place for it, and maybe, making people listen to some Jack Jones track over your holiday snaps will improve the viewing experience. Instagram seems to think so, as it’s adding another music element, with users now able to add a song that […]
The smartphone screen shows Donald Trump’s tweet “Great success” … [+](Photo by Eric BARADAT / AFP) Photo by Eric BARADAT / AFP (Photo ERIC BARADAT/AFP/Getty Images). AFP via Getty Images This summer marks 50 years since the U.S. Senate Watergate Committee heard the first hearings about the White House audio system. However, one such audio […]
If you’ve seen several messages saying, “@username invites you to join their Broadcast Channel,” you’re me over the past few months since Meta announced the feature in February 2023. What was once a trickle is now a flood as Instagram opened its Broadcast Channels feature to (almost) every user in June 2023. So what’s this […]
*Sigh* Okay, let’s talk about the Elon vs. Zuck fight. As you’ll undoubtedly recall, back in June, X owner Elon Musk tweeted that he’d be “up for a cage match” with Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, in response to the news that Meta was planning to launch a new X rival app, ahead of the release […]
At this point, you’ve heard it all about AI. AI can help you write better. AI can help you create faster. But can it help your social captions perform better? As a busy social media marketer, anything that promises to make the content creation process easier and faster is appealing. And with tools like ChatGPT making […]
Nick Pickles is pictured in a file photo speaking at a committee meeting as the public policy director of Twitter. … [+](Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP) Photo by Olivier Douliery / AFP (Photo credit is OLIVIER DOEULIERY/AFP through Getty Images). AFP via Getty Images Executives from X, formerly Twitter, appeared before the Australian Parliament […]
For many years, as a small startup, we did not do any sort of formal performance reviews. Instead, we did regular one-to-one meetings between managers and teammates, usually on a weekly basis. We also gave feedback to each other openly and regularly. (We even experimented with doing feedback transparently, but we went away from that […]