#HASHTAG TRENDING - 5.22.24

Wow! I got such a great response to opening subscriptions to this newsletter! So, welcome everyone! I'm excited to share the social trends and platform updates that I'm most excited about to help you keep up to date on everything that's happening on social media and help you sound smart in your next meeting or the next time you talk to your Gen Z niece or nephew. I'd love to open up dialogue around the content of this newsletter and I'm always open to give my opinion on the latest social trends, so please don't hesitate to reach out! Before I dive into the latest updates I wanted to do a little (more) shameless self-promotion:

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Okay, now let's dive right in:

Then the new King Charles portrait gets the royal meme treatment:

When TikTok users take a rapper's diss track to diss things in their lives:

When users share the professional you think you're emailing compared to who they are in real life:

When ~*the kids*~ ask their parents to dance like they did in the 90s:

?? You can now find Twitter.com on X.com. You can also find updated Twitter/X user stats here.

? While many platforms are testing longer videos, Adam Mosseri has said that Instagram Reels over 90s will hurt video distribution.

?? Threads has announced a new fact-checking program as well as "ThreadsDeck", a desktop TweetDeck-like feed with columns for saved searches, tags, accounts, and notifications. And soon it will allow every user to see every post's view count.

?? A new Instagram sticker allows users to require follows to DM to reveal content, a new feature allows users to add meme-style text to Reels when you share them with friends, and a "Share to Threads" button is in testing. Instagram has also added a TikTok-like "just seen" label to posts you just saw.

?? Instagram now allows you to boost posts directly from desktop.

?? TikTok is testing 60-minute videos, collab posts, AI-generated search results, and will now automatically label A.I.-generated content.

?? Curious about how TikTok can aid in product discovery? New insights are out!

?? Users in Facebook Groups can now comment and react anonymously.

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