by Kate WhittingtonAll the latest social media news, in one place. Boom! With so much going on every week we thought we’d save you the time by collating all the good stuff. This week it's all about Instagram launching pinned comments and the Facebook algorithm update.
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Instagram is starting a small global test of the Instagram Shop tab, first announced in May, which allows Instagram users to shop from top brands and creators via a new tab in the app’s navigation bar with just one tap. Here, users will be able to filter products by categories, as they can today via the existing Shop experience within Instagram Explore.
Instagram is testing a new ‘Shop’ tab https://t.co/AlQ7MGHgJQ
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) July 7, 2020
Today we’re rolling out pinned comments everywhere. ?
That means you can a pin a few comments to the top of your feed post and better manage the conversation. pic.twitter.com/iPCMJVLxMh
— Instagram (@instagram) July 7, 2020
The feature lets any user pin three comments on a post to the top of a thread, and it’s designed to allow the author of a post to better control the tone of the comment thread through highlighting positivity and moderating more negative and abusive responses that show up below the pinned comments.
Facebook has announced a new News Feed algorithm update for news content, which will put more emphasis on original reporting, and boost content from news websites that provide information on their journalists, increasing transparency.
This week the company has once again teased the prospect of an edit button that would allow its community to tweak their posts and correct any typos after publishing them. In a tweet on Thursday, July 2, Twitter said you can have an edit button … so long as everyone wears a face mask to help slow the spread of the coronavirus.
You can have an edit button when everyone wears a mask
— Twitter (@Twitter) July 2, 2020
