Elon Musk’s steady mission to erase every trace of Twitter’s former identity continues — and the next feature on the chopping block appears to be Direct Messages. According to rumblings from X employees and independent researchers, the classic DM tab may soon be replaced by something called XChat. SEE ALSO: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk call…
This week, we’re getting a peek behind the scenes at Meta and Facebook as the FTC’s antitrust trial against the company begins. On Monday and Tuesday, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand as the U.S. government makes its case that Zuckerberg and company run a social media monopoly. The FTC argues that…
One of the scariest things that can occur with a WordPress user is that you install a plugin, and upon activation, you get a white screen of death. This screen, where your beautifully crafted website once lived, is now plain white or produces a line or two of unformatted text. A plugin conflict is when…
This post was sponsored by DAC. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Authors: Dan Lauer & Michael Goodman Is the classic funnel model (TOFU-MOFU-BOFU) still relevant in an AI-driven SERP? What kinds of queries trigger Google’s AI Overviews? How can you structure content so that AI pulls your site into the…
A new study of over 577,000 LinkedIn posts challenges common marketing advice. It finds that posts with links get 13.57% more interactions and 4.90% more views than posts without links. The LinkedIn study by Metricool analyzed nearly 48,000 company pages over three years. The findings give marketers solid data to rethink their LinkedIn strategies. Link…
4chan, the controversial imageboard where users can anonymously post anything and everything, is experiencing downtime as of this morning. Thousands of visitors reported outages on Tuesday, according to DownDetector. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.) The current speculation among users is that 4chan was hacked by an attacker taking advantage of an…
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If your FYP, timeline, or feed feels like a toy aisle lately, you’re not imagining things. The latest internet trend has everyone turning themselves — or their favorite characters — into AI-generated action figures. These digital creations are everywhere. Instagram, X, TikTok, and even — actually, especially — LinkedIn, have all been inundated with them.…
New research shows marketers aren’t using generative AI as much as they could be. Marketing applications rank surprisingly low on the list of popular AI uses. “The Top-100 Gen AI Use Case” report by Marc Zao-Sanders reveals that while people increasingly use AI for personal support, marketing tasks like creating ads and social media content…
Consistency is crucial when posting content to ensure your customers remain engaged with your business and its products. To maintain consistency, it’s essential to develop a structured posting schedule aligned with your company’s marketing objectives for optimal results. Our content plan is designed to support this process. But, what exactly does a content plan need?…