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Social media updates you *NEED* to know: 🔗 LinkedIn is making link previews much SMALLER in the feed - unless you pay 🤭 Instagram is testing a CapCut-style feature, allowing users to scroll through trending memes to add to posts 📲 TikTok is launching a management platform for creators which will allow them to “create, edit, upload, manage and analyse” their account and content performance. 🌱 A new report by Sprout Social suggests the best times to post on *social media, and on LinkedIn, company pages can see the “most engagement” on Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 10am-12pm 👀 Google’s 2,500-page document about how Google Search works has been leaked 🚫 MPs are urging the next government to ban smartphones for under-16s in the UK 👯‍♀️ Elon Musk claims that X, FKA Twitter, has 600M monthly active users 📸 Mark Zuckerberg has been spotted wearing a t-shirt with a quote from The Social Network saying: “Sorry my Prada’s at the cleaners, along with my hoodie and f*ck you flip flops” (this is for the folks who steal my (@anniemaisocial's content) ily 💌 Instagram is working on a feature called Lately, which highlights recent Stories on user profiles 👻 TikTok has added a floating player on desktop, which means users can watch TikTok videos while doing something else on their computer 👾 YouTube is rolling out in-app games to more users in the Australia, Canada, the US and the UK 🤪 AI-generated emojis could be coming in Apple’s iOS 18 *SO important to note here that these “best times to post” are a good STARTING point, but use your own data to get a good idea of when your audience is likely to be most active. And that's all for now folks! See you next Wednesday for your favourite, and OG, Social Tea 👋🖤

Social media updates you NEED to know: 👏 Instagram now lets you view analytics on desktop / web 👀 LinkedIn has updated its algorithm to give your content more longevity with suggested posts, meaning your posts could live on for “months or even years” 😳 TikTok is losing MORE songs on the platform over Universal Music Group Dispute, as all songs that have been written/co-written by a songwriter signed at UMG are being removed 🗺️ Instagram is allegedly working on a Friends Map to allow users to see their friends location 🪡  Threads has rolled out the ability of users to bookmark their favourite posts 👹 LinkedIn’s editor in chief, Dan Roth, confirmed that the platform has stopped attributing the ‘read more’ button as a ranking signal 📲 X, FKA Twitter, now lets users choose the quality of video playback in-stream 🎠 Google is testing a most-read articles carousel in search Short but sweet this week, and as normal, sources are in the comments. See ya'll next Wednesday for the next round of updates 👋