⚡️ Dimple's Digital Digest: 7 February ⚡️
For 2022’s first digest (I skipped January because it’s the worst month anyway), we cover Instagram’s flop era, the fall and rise of Tumblr, Wordle wins and why it’s time to log off. ⬇️
READ ME (PART ONE):
🤯 Must read: Everything you need to know about the metaverse
⌛ Time to log off: we spend over 36 days on social media per year
📉 Facebook’s daily active users fell for the time in history
🎨 Twitter UK reveals 2021’s most creative brand campaigns
🔠 Behind the rise and sale of hit game Wordle
😬 Are brands becoming too cringey on social?
READ ME (PART TWO):
🤔 How Google makes you know less but think you know more
📈 Have researchers cracked the code to TikTok virality?
⚡ Why are social media companies embracing NFTs?
📱 Instagram chief outlines key focus areas for 2022…
👎 But is the platform currently in its flop era?
🇹 Tumblr has become popular for being obsolete
HEY THAT’S COOL:
✨ Twitter’s ‘tweet it into existence’ campaign is pure genius
🗣️ WhatsApp releases clever US ads on encryption
WINS OF THE WEEK:
🦁 Oklahoma Dept of Wildfire’s Twitter account is chaotic and incredible
🍪 Oreo, McDonald’s, Schitt’s Creek and others join ‘Not Wordle’ meme…
🟣 But one child poverty charity used it to make a serious point
✈️ Ryanair pokes fun at Boris Johnson over 2020 Downing Street party
UH OH:
🔴 How a Dry January tweet got this social media manager fired
❗ Pregnancy apps are failing mums-to-be
⚠️ Why TikTok has an incel problem
BONUS!
😇 Meet the internet’s true angels, who help everyone
⚽️ No one else can be Twitter’s head of sports TJ Adeshola