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Tuesday Tune-Up #329

Facebook tries to make amends in wake of scandal The Cambridge Analytica and Facebook controversy continues to make headlines. It’s been revealed that Facebook is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, examining whether Facebook violated its terms by giving Cambridge Analytica data without users’ knowledge. Facebook is trying to repair the damage. CEO Mark Zuckerberg […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #328

Snapchat falls again as yet another celebrity shames it on social Just days after users called out the tasteless Snapchat ad from mobile video game ‘Would You Rather’, which made light of the 2009 domestic violence case involving Rihanna, the star took to Instagram Stories (Snapchat’s main competitor) to release an official statement against the platform […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #327

WeChat tops one billion daily users According to the BBC, Chinese messaging app WeChat (Weixin in China) has topped one billion monthly users thanks to community engagement around the recent Lunar New Year celebrations. WeChat’s stunning user growth, with more than 225 million users getting on board in a year, is due to the wider role the […]

Snapchat and Instagram score highly with young adults A report from Pew Research Centre has found that a large proportion of young internet users in the US are logging into Snapchat and Instagram every day. The Social Media Use in 2018 study spoke to 2,002 U.S. adults about their use of the major social platforms – […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #326

Twitter celebrates women in first-ever Oscars’ ad After much discussion around an outfit blackout and other female empowerment activities, Twitter chose this year’s Oscars to run a 60-second ad celebrating women. However, the inventor of hashtags decided to launch its own hashtag, so instead of #MeToo they united under #HereWeAre. The black-and-white spot featured prominent women […]

Did Kylie Jenner Impact Snapchat?

TLDR: Kylie’s Tweet wasn’t that impactful and Snapchat isn’t (completely) dead. However, Snapchat is on a slippery slope following its highly unpopular redesign that has users, Citigroup, and Wall Street challenging its decision. Who’s really behind the decline? While the redesign backlash and Kylie’s tweet no doubt had a negative impact on Snapchat’s sentiment, the […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #325

Instagram outplays Snapchat with new replay options #SendNudes advocates and social voyeurs, here’s an update you’ll take pleasure in. Instagram has made a move to encourage even more ‘intimate’ sharing on its platform by giving users some new options to choose from when private messaging. When sending an ephemeral video or image using the Instagram Direct camera, […]

Tuesday Tune-Up #324

Facebook facing youth exodus Facebook is losing ground among teens and young adults, according to eMarketer’s latest figures from the US. The latest forecast reveals that, while the platform is still growing its daily user figures among older audiences, growth among 12-to-17-year-olds and 18-to-24 year-olds are both set to drop faster than previously predicted. This could […]

2018 DIGITAL REPORT – AUSTRALIA

In case you missed it last week, we launched the new 2018 Global Digital Report in collaboration with Hootsuite. With nearly 400k views to date, it’s clear there’s a healthy appetite for insight into what’s happening in digital around the world. However, it hasn’t escaped us that a report with 5,000 charts covering 230 countries […]

Tuesday Tune-up #323

World’s internet users pass the 4 billion mark, and other fascinating stats Who crushes more charts than Justin Bieber? We Are Social’s own global consultant Simon Kemp, that’s who. The recent global launch of his annual Digital Report packed in over 5,000 charts, each revealing insightful stats about the digital world in 2018. For instance, who […]

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