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Threads Tests Interests Display on User Profiles

Threads is working on another way to encourage people to follow other users in the app, with a new “Interests” field now available on some user profiles.

Some Threads users are now being prompted to “Add interests” to their profile via a pop-up notification. Tap through on that prompt, and you can add topics that you’re interested in, and are thus likely to post about, which will then be displayed on to profile visitors.

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LinkedIn Continues To Add European Users

LinkedIn saw a slight rise in EU users in the second half of last year, while there was also an increase in scam and fake profiles reported by users in the app, according to its latest EU disclosure report. Under the EU Digital Services Act (DSA), all designated large online platforms need to provide insight into their usage and moderation efforts in the region every six months.

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Buffer Released a Report on How Engagement Patterns Differ Across X, Threads, and Bluesky

Everyone talks about how different social media platforms are, and it’s not hard to see why. X is treated as the town square. Threads wants to be the friendly alternative. Bluesky champions decentralization and user control.

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X was Having an Up and Down Monday

The X social media platform has been up and down all MOnday morning, with brief but repeated outages preventing posts from loading across both mobile and desktop. The first widespread issue started at around 5:40AM ET this morning, according to Downdetector, leaving timelines consistently unable to refresh on mobile apps and some X users stuck in an endless loading loop.

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TikTok Provides Tips on Creating Engaging Photo Posts

Looking for more ways to engage your TikTok followers? Maybe still image posts could be worth trying, and to help with this, TikTok recently published an overview of its still image posts, and how you can use them to best effect.

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Instagram is Experimenting with A Discord-like ‘Community Chat’ Feature

It seems that Instagram is working on a “community chat” feature that allows people to organize groups of up to 250 people in the app. The so-far unreleased feature was spotted by developer Alessandro Paluzzi, who has a solid track record of uncovering new features within Meta’s apps.

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Instagram Begins Live Testing of ‘Blend’ Reels Sharing Feature

Instagram is moving ahead with its testing of “Blend”, a new feature built into messaging that will enable you to view a co-operative feed of AI recommended Reels for you and a friend.

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Meta will begin testing its X-style Community Notes starting March 18th.

The feature will roll out on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in the US – but Meta won’t publicly publish the notes to start as it tests the Community Notes writing and rating system. Meta first announced plans to replace its fact-checking program with Community Notes in January, saying it would be “less prone to bias.” So far, around 200,000 potential contributors have signed up for the waitlist. Not everyone will be able to write and rate Community Notes at launch, as the company will “gradually and randomly” admit contributors to the program.

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