social media updates you NEED to know 👇 👯‍♀️ Instagram is working on the ability to create posts ONLY visible to close friends (love that) 🔗 Snapchat is testing sponsored links within conversations using its newly released artificial intelligence chatbot, My AI 💸 TikTok has partnered with publishers to trial a new premium ad product, 'Pulse Premiere', which would mean that advertisers could place ads *directly* after content from premium publisher content in the For You feed 📊 Instagram keeps working on the ability to add polls in the comment section, although this now looks like it’ll only be applicable to Reels 🙏 When you share a post from Reddit via a messaging app, the link preview will now include visuals, the subreddit name, total upvotes tally and the number of comments. 🤖 Instagram is allegedly working on the ability to generate custom stickers using AI (not shocking after it was announced that TikTok is using AI to generate profile pictures) 📲 Reddit users will now be able to share content directly from Reddit to IG stories without having to screenshot or download the content first 🎶 Instagram has officially announced that they’re testing two new features, where you’ll be able to share a song in a Note, and add a song to Carousels 👀 Mozilla has expanded its Mastodon investment with a beta launch of mozilla[.]social, its own moderated server 😶 Twitter is testing new visual display formats, where user’s profiles could look more Instagram-grid like with a separate tab for videos 👏 Meta has announced that it's introducing new features to give users more control over what they see on Reels. You can now watch a video and select “show more” or “show less”, and Meta will now show labels on Reels to tell you why you’re seeing that specific piece of content 💬 WhatsApp now allows you to forward pictures with the option to keep, delete or rewrite the caption 1️⃣ WhatsApp now allows you to create single-vote polls, meaning users are only allowed to vote once instead of multiple times (I’m not sure why it took them so long to make this an option) 💙 Bluesky, currently an invite-only decentralised social network, is allegedly Twitter’s new rival… (I’m using it, and I’ll be writing my thoughts up soon) And that's all for now folks! See ya'll next time 👋💞