Month: April 2023

Jetpack announced that the auto-share feature of the social part of the plugin will cease to work for Twitter, blaming last minute changes by Twitter and an inability to come to an agreement. The Jetpack announcement explained: “Twitter decided, on short notice, to dramatically change the terms and pricing of the Twitter API. We have […]

OpenAI has successfully met the Italian Garante’s requirements, lifting Italy’s nearly month-long ChatGPT ban. The company made several improvements to its services, including clarifying personal data usage, to comply with European data protection legislation. The resolution of this issue comes as the European Union moves closer to enacting the Artificial Intelligence Act, which aims to […]

Humans are visual-oriented beings. We use five critical senses daily to solve problems and get through our daily lives, each of which helps humans significantly. But vision is responsible for 80% of everything humans learn, and similar numbers are likely for most animals with developed brains. That’s why visual-rich media – photos, images, videos – […]

Since Elon Musk became CEO of Twitter and laid off thousands of employees, former Twitter employees and Big Tech competitors have focused on creating Twitter alternatives. While none can rival Twitter’s audience size of 556 million members yet, they offer those dissatisfied with Twitter’s new policies a fresh start. Spearheaded by former Twitter employees and […]

OpenAI announced that they are slowly rolling out plugins for ChatGPT that will extend the functionality to allow it to do new things such as browse the web. What Are ChatGPT Plugins? OpenAI describes their plugins as tools that ChatGPT can use. These new plugins still being tested and don’t necessarily work perfectly out of […]

While Elon Musk’s changes at Twitter have been heavily criticized by many, according to Twitter’s numbers, usage of the platform has not declined as a result. Indeed, while Twitter has reinstated a range of previously banned users, including neo-Nazis, misinformation peddlers, transphobic spokespeople, and worse, while Twitter’s softened its rules around content removals, potentially putting […]

Reddit’s testing out another user engagement option, with Chat Channels being added to selected subreddits, which will enable community members to strike up real-time, topical chats. Which may sound familiar. Reddit actually launched virtually the exact same thing back in 2018, with Chat Rooms which also enabled users to engage in real-time, back-and-forth discussions with other […]

Instagram’s testing out a new option that will help brands discover relevant UGC in the app that they can then share as examples to better promote their products in-stream. As you can see in this example, shared by Yolande Haynes on LinkedIn, Instagram is now prompting some Shop managers to ‘Add user-generated content’ to their […]

Traditional media has often been characterized by its inaccessible barriers to entry. The costs associated with distributing content in major publications were, and still are, a prominent deterrent for parties looking to expose their messaging to a greater audience. It was the industrialization of print media that afforded an opportunity to reach the masses at […]

Pinterest has published its latest performance update, with the platform seeing an increase in users in Q1, but a slowdown in revenue intake, as it continues to expand and diversify its monetization potential. First off, on users – Pinterest added 13 million more users in the quarter, with its growth momentum accelerating in the new […]