This week on the Digital Coffee
Question: Who’s thinking about TikTok?
😏TikTok features coming to Instagram
⏱Google flags slow loading sites
➡️The return of LinkedIn page invites
New Twitter features in 2020?
- Remove me from this conversation
- Don’t allow RT of this tweet
- Don’t allow people to @mentionn me without my permission
- Remove this @mention from this conversation
- Tweet this only to: hashtag, interest, or these friends
https://twitter.com/dantley/status/1191593335837712384
Twitter, switch to reply
- Like Facebook pages
- Choose who you reply as
- Make you think more intentionally
https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1192739208265453568
LinkedIn Invite To Company Pages Is back
- Admins only with over 3 connections
- Only invite when page is less than 10,000 followers
- Only invite each person once
- NEW – only 50 invites per session
TikTok Features Coming to Instagram
- Reels launched in Brazil this week
- Reels lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, with the potential to go viral on a new Top Reels section of Explore. Just like TikTok, users can soundtrack their Reels with a huge catalog of music, or borrow the audio from anyone else’s video to create a remix of their meme or joke
- Not sure it will work…
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/12/instagram-reels/
Facebook pay being rolled out to US
- Pay for everything directly on Facebook
- Including purchases from select shops
- Real time chat support apparently
- Make transactions on Facebook easier in the future without leaving the app
- But do we trust them?
https://about.fb.com/news/2019/11/simplifying-payments-with-facebook-pay/
Google informing users of slow loading websites
- On Chrome only
- Badge tells you site loads slowly
- I actually think this will make people wait for site to load rather than abandoning, will be interesting to see
https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/google-plans-to-tag-websites-that-dont-download-quickly/567103/
New Facebook creative options for placements
- Change creatives for stories/instagram and other placements
- Now – Mix formats photo/video
Twitter attach warnings to manipulated video
- ‘Synthetic or manipulated’
- Will it combat things like the edited news clip?
- place a notice next to Tweets that share synthetic or manipulated media;
- warn people before they share or like Tweets with synthetic or manipulated media; or
- add a link – for example, to a news article or Twitter Moment – so that people can read more about why various sources believe the media is synthetic or manipulated.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/synthetic_manipulated_media_policy_feedback.html
Cool tool – Pingdom
- Find out how fast your website is
- See what’s wrong
Get a headstart on Google Analytics 4 & understand the lingo with the GA4 phrase book
Question: Who’s thinking about TikTok?
No I’ve enough to distract me without tiktok
Drinking coffee… actually, the cup’s empty. Better grab another!
Coffee 🙂
Got the TikTok app, made a profile but all I see is just a load of kids dancing or singing. No real indication of how to use it. Don’t like it … same feeling I have about SnapChat.
I did a lot of work on my 3 websites as regards page speed so I installed some image optimisation plugins and also a cache and compression plugin and I got a 60% boost on page speed.
On one site, I also removed a complete section from the front page which I found people were never looking at. I used heat maps to find that nobody really clicked on the lower section.
So combining the optimisation plugins and also removing unnecessary content I sped up the site quite well.
I agree on the hosting & the reduction of plugins.
Page speed, I actually used a combination of https://gtmetrix.com , https://website.grader.com and https://developers.google.com/speed
I just wanted to see what each site gave me as a result.
Could you do a digital coffee on Google local sometime? 🙂 x
New Twitter features in 2020?
Twitter VP of Design & Research @Dantley
* Remove me from this conversation
* Don’t allow RT of this tweet
* Don’t allow people to @mention me without my permission
* Remove this @mention from this conversation
* Tweet this only to: hashtag, interest, or these friends
https://twitter.com/dantley/status/1191593335837712384
Twitter, switch to reply
* Like Facebook pages
* Choose who you reply as
* Make you think more intentionally
https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1192739208265453568
LinkedIn Invite To Company Pages Is Back
* Only invite everyone on your connection list when less than 500
* Admins only with over 3 connections
* Only invite when page is less than 10,000 followers
* Only invite each person once
* NEW – only 50 invites per session
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/linkedin-brings-back-option-to-invite-connections-to-follow-a-company-page/567272/
TikTok Features Coming to Instagram
* Reels launched in Brazil this week
* Reels lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories, with the potential to go viral on a new Top Reels section of Explore. Just like TikTok, users can soundtrack their Reels with a huge catalog of music, or borrow the audio from anyone else’s video to create a remix of their meme or joke
* Not sure it will work…
https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/12/instagram-reels/
Facebook pay being rolled out to US
* Pay for everything directly on Facebook
* Including purchases from select shops
* Real time chat support apparently
* Make transactions on Facebook easier in the future without leaving the app
* But do we trust them?
https://about.fb.com/news/2019/11/simplifying-payments-with-facebook-pay/
Google informing users of slow loading websites
* On Chrome only
* Badge tells you site loads slowly
* I actually think this will make people wait for site to load rather than abandoning, will be interesting to see
https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/google-plans-to-tag-websites-that-dont-download-quickly/567103/
New Facebook creative options for placements
* Change creatives for stories/instagram and other placements
* Now – Mix formats photo/video
Twitter attach warnings to manipulated video
* ‘Synthetic or manipulated’
* Will it combat things like the edited news clip?
– place a notice next to Tweets that share synthetic or manipulated media;
– warn people before they share or like Tweets with synthetic or manipulated media; or
– add a link – for example, to a news article or Twitter Moment – so that people can read more about why various sources believe the media is synthetic or manipulated.
https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2019/synthetic_manipulated_media_policy_feedback.html
Cool tool – Pingdom
* Find out how fast your website is
* See what’s wrong
https://tools.pingdom.com/
Replay having a cuppa tea
Thanks for watching Esther 🙂
I’ll add it to my list 🙂
Amanda Webb – Spiderworking Thank you Amanda