Share Instagram feed posts with close friends only People don’t post on social as much as they used to. I’m not talking about creators or businesses. I’m talking about non-marketers.  It seems that people feel pressure to create something Instaworthy. So instead of posting publicly they use messaging tools and share to close friends lists. […]

Highlight comments in Insta stories When you see comments on a social post are you more likely to comment yourself? Meta is currently running a test on Instagram that will let creators feature comments from posts or Reels in their stories.  Will this boost engagement? I guess that’s what the test is all about.  https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/29/instagrams-latest-test-lets-creators-highlight-comments-in-their-stories/ […]

Is X about to kill the block? In his wildly bizarre way of announcing things. Elon Musk shared a post on X saying that the block feature was going away. As you can imagine, this didn’t impress us much. Some people thought it was against the App Store policy (I’m not sure it is), and […]

Listen to the podcast Facebook to force admins on your group What keeps you going back to Facebook? For many the answer is Groups. These interest-based communities seem to be where all the fun is. But if like me you’ve set up groups and don’t maintain them regularly, you could be in for a shock. […]

Listen to the aftershow podcast What’s new in the X algorithm It wasn’t long ago that Twitter… now X uploaded its algorithm to GitHub so we could all see how it worked. Turned out we didn’t really see how it worked at all, no one could agree on what it all meant. One thing that […]