We Are Social’s Monday Mashup #641 - We Are Social Global
Sep 12, 2023 - wearesocial.com
The article discusses various updates from different social media platforms. X has introduced Community Notes for videos, a program for crowdsourced moderation, but has also been reported to run unlabeled ads in Following feeds. Snapchat has announced new safety features aimed at protecting teen users, including measures to prevent contact from strangers and inappropriate content. Threads is expanding its search feature to most English and Spanish-speaking countries, allowing users to search for keywords and topics. X has updated its terms of service to ban data scraping and crawling without prior written consent.
In other updates, SoundCloud is rolling out its TikTok-styled discovery feed to all users, Instagram is testing a feature to share feed posts with 'Close Friends' only, and Pinterest has developed a computer vision-powered body type technology to make search more inclusive. The article also provides options to share these updates via Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Key takeaways:
X has launched Community Notes for videos, a program for crowdsourced moderation, but has also been reported to run unlabeled ads in Following feeds.
Snapchat is introducing new safety features to better protect teen users, including making it harder for strangers to contact teens and cracking down on inappropriate content.
Threads is expanding its search feature to most English and Spanish speaking countries, allowing users to search for keywords and topics on the platform.
X has updated its terms of service to ban scraping and crawling, likely to prevent AI models from training on its data.
