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• Twitter’s advanced search filters for mobile are on their way / #

  Twitter is finally making a feature update that people actually want.

• Europe: Meta is not allowed to use its data for personalized advertising at Facebook / #

  A court ordered the company to bring its data processing operations into compliance to GDPR within three months. Meta also has to pay 390 mio Euro as a fine.

• Why TikTok’s future - not only in the US - has never been so cloudy / #

  ByteDance thought it had a deal with the government in August. Then came the bans — and a spying scandal.

• YouTube Predicts What Will Go Viral In 2023 / #

  YouTube predicts we'll see more travel content in 2023, and an influx of videos about AI-generated content.

• Musk Says Twitter to Allow Users to Turn Off View Count Feature / #

  Twitter will tweak its recently rolled out view count feature, allowing users to turn it off.

• Pressure on Google as Microsoft plans to add ChatGPT to Bing / #

  While it may sound intriguing, there are a number of “buts” around the news that Microsoft is planning to add ChatGPT to Bing.

• Keep It Real or Lose Gen Z / #

  Genuine connection, authentic content, and no ‘likes’?

• 2023 will be the year of AR glasses – here’s what to expect / #

  Augmented Reality (AR) has promised some pretty big things, such as, you know, a total disruption to how we live and work.

• From customer service to the entertainment industry: Business in China hiring more virtual workers / #

  Scandal-free, cheap, and cool: While Virtual Influencers and even Virtual Workers have appeared on the fringes of the western internet, they’ve been popping up more and more in China’s cyberspace. Those virtual people are a combination of animation, sound tech and machine learning that create digitized human beings who can sing and even interact on a livestream. They open up a whole new business worth millions of dollars by 2025 already.

• Tapbots’ Ivory app helped me love Mastodon and ditch Twitter / #

  Digital Trends tested the Alpha-version of the Mastodon-App Ivory, which comes from the developers of Tweetbot. And they think it’s a game changer!, just because Ivory has the same design and interface as Tweetbot, so all of the interactions, gestures, and functionalities

• Here Are the Biggest Tech Innovations Coming Up in 2023 / #

• Is Instagram the New Google for Gen Z? / #

  We may be seeing a changing of the guard, with TikTok and Instagram coming to the fore and Google becoming a rarely used site. The rise of Chat GPT is also leading many to call for a change to search engine culture. If an AI can answer all questions, there’s no need to go to Google.

• What Can We Expect For Social Media In 2023? Big Changes Say The Pundits / #

• Marketing Briefing: What will be the top marketing and advertising trends in 2023? / #

  Digiday asked its readers what they expect the trends will be for 2023 - here are the answers

• QuickVid uses AI to generate short-form videos, complete with voiceovers / #

  Given as little as a single word, QuickVid chooses a background video from a library, writes a script and keywords, overlays images generated by DALL-E 2 and adds a synthetic voiceover and background music from YouTube’s royalty-free music library.

• Why Facebook Alt Text Is Important (And How To Do It Right) / #

  If you’ve worked in social media for the last few years, you know that digital accessibility and inclusivity have become top priorities. The ALT-text makes your posts not only more accessible, but also helps Facebook to make it more discoverable.

• Instagram Rolls Out a New Feature Which Lets Users Choose Their Pronouns in the Language They Want / #

  Meta is working hard to introduce new features beneficial to users and that's why it has come up with a new update to the pronouns feature on Instagram.

• TikTok creators will be able to limit videos to adult-only audiences / #

  Creators pushing out content that is more suitable for adults will soon be able to get more tools for limiting their audience.

• 41 Most Defining Memes Of 2022 / #

  A swift review of which memes we laught the most about last year.

• Brands tweeted a lot less in late 2022 on Twitter / #

  What‘s next for organic Twitter? An analysis based on 2,300+ U.S. and Canadian brand accounts show that while nearly 80% were tweeting at least weekly during mid-October, only around 60% were doing so in early November after the first Musk-drama.

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