WhatsApp Cracks Down On Message Forwarding
- Messages that have even forwarded many times can only be forwarded to one contact at a time
- A Double arrow indicates a message has been forwarded more than 5 times
- Corona forwarding has been a problem
- But some forwarding of entertaining content is good.
https://blog.whatsapp.com/Keeping-WhatsApp-Personal-and-Private
LinkedIn Events Available To All Pages
- Catching up with Facebook for scheduling virtual events
- Create an event for an online networking event, summit or meet-up
- Have discussions with attendees in the event feed
Gift Cards on Facebook
- Users prompted to ‘Support Local Business’
- Sent to gift card registry
- People are saying they want to support local business, this makes it easy
- Rolling out to selected users in the US
New Shopping Tools From Pinterest
- In the last two weeks, searches for “help small businesses” on Pinterest are up 3x compared to the prior two weeks
- Searches for “home office setup” are up by 70%
- 4x increase in searches for “employee gifts”
- 97% of top searches on Pinterest are unbranded
- Shop from a board: See shop tab on your own board with related shopping pins
- Shop from search: Shop tab on search
- Shop from Pins: Click ‘shop similar’ from a single pin
https://newsroom.pinterest.com/en/post/new-ways-to-shop-on-pinterest-discover-retailers-of-all-sizes
Zoom Security
- Removed integration with Facebook and LinkedIn
- Meeting passwords are enabled on by default for those not clicking link to join
- Virtual waiting room – have to approve people joining the room
- Make sure you switch screen sharing to admin only
- Advise setting password for all on big meetings
- Advise not using your meeting room but a separate meeting ID
Instagram Delivery Sticker
- Similar to support sticker which will prompt buying gift cards
- This one to support restaurants and other delivery business
https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1246260320189829122
LinkedIn Away Messages
- For paid users
- So you don’t have to reply straight away
- Another sign that LinkedIn is considering bots?
https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1247337714170527744
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