If you’re reading this, green flag! The internet has been obsessed with red flags for quite sometime now, and in the past day or so this obsession has turned into a popular Twitter meme. The meme is simple: Whatever someone thinks is a red flag, followed by a series of red flag emoji. According to…
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, if you are as obsessed with tracking the…
Posted a joke that wasn’t funny? Retweeted someone else’s joke, but didn’t notice the unsavory source? We’re not here to judge. We’re just here to make it all go away. (FYI: In case you got here because you were hoping to delete someone else’s tweet from your timeline, that’s not possible, sorry. But there are…
For an app primarily used by by young people, TikTok is oddly obsessed with nostalgia. Whether its obsession with childhood memories or Y2K fashion, the app is overrun with yearning for the past. The hashtag #nostalgia has 18.9 billion views. Accounts like @nostalgia__hub, @thr0wback5, and @daily.dose.0f.nostalgia are dedicated to making videos that aim to make…
“I have been hacked and my Twitter account has been erased,” begins a tweet sent from the verified @RepMaxineWatters Twitter account on Oct.12, 2021 at 11:55am ET. “I know who has done this,” the post continues as it takes a sudden turn and gets all Liam Neeson-esque from the Taken series of films. “I will…
Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, let’s rewind the clock just a few days.…
So you want to DM someone on Twitter, or as the youths call it, “slide into someone’s DMs.” Sending a DM, which stands for “direct message” is a convenient way to communicate discretely on the platform — especially if you don’t have that person’s email address or other contact info. The reasons people DM on…
Google Search Console’s public-facing testing tools will be aligned more closely to the URL Inspection tool, the company announced today. Google said it is updating these tools’ “designs and improving features to be fully aligned with the URL Inspection tool.” Which tools are impacted. Google said this is impacting specifically the AMP, Mobile Friendly, and Rich Results testing…
It’s the year 2021 and MySpace has somehow found itself in the Saturday Night Live cold open. With the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen in the news after her testimony in front of Congress on Tuesday, SNL decided to seize the moment and excoriate the old, out-of-touch Senators for asking Haugen tech-dumb questions. The punchline at…
There’s the good kind of attention, and then there’s the bad kind of attention. Twitch streamer and Yogscast member Lydia Ellery found that out the hard way on Thursday when she says her Instagram account was removed without warning. The apparent cause? Her long-owned handle shared a name with the popular Netflix series, Squid Game.…