February has flown by in a flash and with it, so have plenty of social media updates. Here in the m4m office we all agreed January felt like it lasted a year while February felt like a week at best! This month we saw Instagram’s AR filters take off including their Valentine’s Day edition which told you your V-day fate (unfortunately some of the team didn’t get the best readings), Facebook launched two new apps, Snapchat released Bitmoji TV which allows your Bitmoji to star in their own TV show, along with many more updates. For the full run down, continue reading below.
Facebook releases Pinterest app clone
Facebook is back at it again and has launched a new app via its New Product Experimentation team. The new app called Hobbi is similar to Pinterest, where users can save and share photos and videos of their hobbies or interests. Although the app has Pinterest similarities, the new app is not just a pinboard of inspirational ideas. Aimed at hobbyists, the app organizes photos of projects into collections so users can track their progress over time. At the moment, it doesn’t have a social sharing component, but Hobbi can be used to create videos of projects after they’re finished. We’ll have to wait and see how far Hobbi will make it, with Facebook proving to have a not so great track record with their previous apps including, meme-making app Whale, social networking app Bump and teen meme hub, LOL. For more info on Hobbi and its key features, click here!
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Facebook launches new creator studio app
Snapchat launches Bitmoji TV
Your Bitmoji can now be the star of Snapchat’s new feature called Bitmoji TV! The new TV channel is a continuation of its Bitmoji feature, which lets users create their own personal cartoon avatars. Snapchat will now create short cartoons featuring the Bitmoji of users, their friends and celebrity guest stars which will appear on the app every week as mini TV shows. At launch, Bitmoji TV doesn’t include ads, but it is safe to assume they’ll eventually arrive soon if it ends up becoming a hit! For more info on Bitmoji TV, and how you can star in your own show, click here.
m4m’s top social tip of the month!
While scrolling through Tik Tok’s never ending feed, the team stumbled across a great Instagram story hack! If you’ve ever struggled to find the perfect Insta story sticker gif, an easy way to find popular cute gifs is to search these search terms: chxrry, joules, helen, gravitando, the uncommon place and boho. Searching these names will bring up all of the gifs the creator has made, making it any easy way for you to find gifs that may not have originally popped up on regular search terms such as ‘cute’ or ‘love.’
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