December 2022
Twitter Chaos Continues, LinkedIn Allows Native Scheduling, YouTube Enables Broadcasting With A Guest
- LinkedIn has had a court victory in its long-running battle against hiQ Labs, which has been scraping publicly accessible LinkedIn user data for use in its own recruitment insights app
- LinkedIn launches native post scheduling
- Many long-serving experienced staff are leaving/being asked to leave the company as Musk looks to re-shape the app
- Musk says Twitter usage is at all-time highs - as measured by DAU (daily active users)
- Get ready for ‘double verified’ to be the new benchmark of Twitter supremacy -- Twitter tests "gray checkmark" purchasable through the $8/mo verification plan
- Twitter expands content recommendations, showing users more Tweets from profiles they don’t follow
- Twitter will start displaying Tweet reach metrics up-front on Tweets
- Instagram’s rolling out in-app post scheduling to Professional Accounts
- Instagram provides the capacity to add music to static posts
- Meta’s looking to rationalize expenses, as its Metaverse investments continue to rise - hence 1,000's of employees have been let go
- YouTube will enable all users with 50+ subscribers to broadcast with a guest
- YouTube makes ‘Search Insights’ available
- Search Insights provides data on what your channel viewers are looking or in the app