This Month in Social Media
 
The social media landscape is constantly shifting, and it can be difficult to stay up to speed. That’s why each month we make it easy by sharing with you the biggest updates and headlines pertaining to social media. Check out What’s New in Social Media: January 2022 Edition
This month we are also sharing the top social media trends and insights for 2022. Download the full report here.
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Facebook Announces New Comment Moderation and Support Features, including Live Chat for Some Account Issues: As part of its broader push to win over more creators, Facebook has announced a new set of comment moderation and support tools to help creators maximize their use of its platform.
Facebook Launches New Tools for Live-Stream Creators, Including Links in Streams and Additional Stream Guests: Facebook has announced a slew of new creator features, including Featured Links in live-stream broadcasts, new ways for creators to interact with fan comments, additional funding for rising stars, guest chats in posts, new follow recommendations and more.
Facebook Launches 'Professional Profiles' to Help More Creators Maximize their Presence: Facebook is making a push to facilitate more opportunity for creators in its app, with new ‘Professional Mode for Profiles’ to welcome new creators in, and updates for Creator Pages.
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Instagram now lets you embed a miniature version of your profile into a website: The new feature will allow users to further integrate their Instagram profiles into websites such as blogs.
Instagram Adds Reels Replies, Providing Another Way to Tap into Short-Form Video: Instagram has officially announced that users can now reply to post comments with Reels, providing another way to integrate Reels into the Instagram process.
Instagram Testing a 'Dancify' Option for Reels Which Would Automatically Sync Video and Music: Instagram is still in TikTok catch-up mode, with app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi discovering a new feature in testing that would enable users to ‘dancify’ their Reels clips to any music track.
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Twitter Adds Auto Captions for All Video Uploads in Tweets: Twitter has announced that all videos uploaded within tweets will have auto-captions enabled, providing more ways for users to consume video content in the app.
Twitter Tests New Creative Tweet Options as it Looks to Move In-Line with User Trends: Twitter is testing a new quote tweet with reaction option to allow users to capture their response to a tweet via camera.
Here's what else is trending:
TikTok Adds Live-Stream Intros to Better Facilitate Engagement: While a small update, the new valuable addition features a ‘LIVE intro’ option which enables you to add a short text description to welcome new viewers as they come across your broadcast for increased engagement.
YouTube Adds New Updates to YouTube Studio App, Bringing it More In Line with its Desktop Version: YouTube has outlined some new updates to its YouTube Studio mobile app, which will give creators more flexibility to manage their channels on-the-go, while also making it easier to monitor performance across both desktop and mobile, as opposed to forcing channel managers to log in on a desktop device.