Social Media Marketing

US lawmakers introduce new TikTok ban bill

12/16/202212/15/2022 Stephanie Beck

Three lawmakers have introduced legislation to block the Chinese-owned social media app in the US. A new bill has been introduced by US lawmakers for the purpose of creating a TikTok ban that would stop the app from operating in the United States. The purpose of the bill is to help protect US user data from being shared with the Chinese government. The bill was introduced by top Senate Intelligence Committee Republican Senator Marco Rubio, as well as a bipartisan congressperson pair from the House. This new attempt at a…

The Twitter blue checkmark is back and it’s more expensive for iPhone users

12/14/202212/13/2022 John Montgallo

The service, which failed miserably last month, is back at the same price and more for Apple customers. Twitter has announced that it has relaunched its blue checkmark subscription service, and is once again offering users verified status for $8 per month. That said, iPhone users will need to pay more for the same feature, at $11 per month. Last month, the attempted launch of the service led to a massive number of impersonator accounts. People worldwide took the opportunity last month to launch fake “verified” accounts for public figures…

Instagram finally rolls out scheduled posts for professional accounts

11/11/202211/10/2022 John Montgallo

The social media platform has made it possible for businesses and creators to create in advance. Instagram has announced that it is rolling out a long-awaited scheduled posts tool that can be accessed by all professional accounts in the app. The tool makes it possible for creators and businesses to create what they want to share ahead of time. Until the arrival of the scheduled posts tool, businesses and creators were required to use third-party apps or Creator Studio to be able to set up what they want to share…

Google Hangouts is dead, replaced by Chat

11/07/202211/04/2022 Jesse Collins

The old platform officially came to an end at the start of this month as users are switched to the new one. As of the beginning of November, Google Hangouts has been officially killed off, with users of that platform being automatically switched over to the new Chat platform. This isn’t a surprise, as the change from one platform to the next was first announced two years ago. Google Hangouts has already been undergoing a slow process of phasing out since its end was first announced in 2020. At that…

Meta artificial intelligence has predicted 617 million protein structures

11/03/202211/02/2022 L. Green

The Facebook parent company says its AI model can predict 60 times faster than other cutting-edge systems. Meta recently announced that its artificial intelligence model could be a serious rival to AlphaFold, with claims that its own model is able to predict 60 times faster than other cutting-edge systems. Researchers at the company say they have created a tremendous protein-folding model. According to those researchers, their protein-folding artificial intelligence model has been used for predicting the structure of 617 million proteins. Meta stated that its AI team was able to create…