In this short "Good Social Media Morning" episode, the host (Speaker A) delivers a rapid-fire roundup of recent social‑media news and resources. He announces the return of his Friday VidChat (#HowToVideo) on Twitter, urges viewers to attend the upcoming Social Media Marketing World conference (including a digital pass option for remote attendees), and points to an Inc. article outlining 2020 marketing trends. He also highlights a massive Gary Vaynerchuk Q&A blog with 400 questions. The host then critiques Facebook’s new approach to political ads—reducing ad visibility but refusing to fact‑check them—advising users to verify claims themselves. Finally, he explains Twitter’s new audience‑reply controls that let users limit who can reply to their tweets, aiming to curb toxicity. The video closes with a call‑to‑action to subscribe for daily 5‑minute social‑media updates.
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Good social media morning, guys. Let's get down to it. And last but certainly not least, VidChat is back. That's right, the Twitter chat that I run every Friday at 1 PM Eastern Standard Time where we break down the latest and greatest in video, it is back today, 1 PM Eastern Standard Time. I would love to see you guys over on Twitter. It's as simple as searching the hashtag #HowToVideo. #vidchat. I hope you guys have an amazing Friday, a great weekend, and I will be back Monday with another good Social Media Morning. Catch you then, guys. Conference season is almost upon us. I can't stress enough, if you don't have your tickets for Social Media Marketing World, you want to grab them now, right now. Go get them. Link is down there. Grab 'em. It's gonna be worth it. It's gonna be an amazing show. Tons of great people speaking this year. If you can't make it physically, you're not limited either. They've got a great digital pass where you can see all of the speakers that you want to see right from the comfort of your own home. So if you're running a business and maybe you're a solopreneur, you can't afford to leave and go, or you've got a large team and you can't afford to send the whole team, no problem. Check out the digital ticket. It's a great resource for you guys to be able to attend the conference, engage, consume the content. I highly recommend it. Next up we've got Inc. and they actually have this great piece on marketing trends that you can expect in 2020. This will be the last one that I've done. This is the, that, the first week back officially from 2020. So we're gonna be done with these marketing trends of 2020 videos, but this is really good. I enjoyed this one. I figured I'd give it to you guys to plow through. As always, guys, links are down below to all of this content. So take the time. Now I owe you this one from yesterday. My apologies. It was supposed to hop in and it didn't make it. Gary Vee, end of an era. He's got a massive blog here, Q&A, 400 questions for you to dig through. Enjoy. Next up, we are coming into election season and Facebook seems to be falling short from social standards as to what is expected with ads. So they are allowing people to view less and less political ads in the feed. That's something that they have agreed to, that's what they will do. However, in regards to fact-checking the political ads themselves, that will not be happening. Facebook has come out and said quite clearly that unless there is regulation on the industry as to who can say what about what, both sides of the fence, both Democrat and Republican, are guilty of putting in We'll call it fake news for the sake of argument. So there will be no fact-checking by Facebook on your political ads in this upcoming season. So if you see an ad drop in your feed, just do your own fact-checking. Make sure that you're sure what's being said is actually legit. CES is at an end, but before we finish, Twitter dropped a great update, guys. You're gonna see a whole lot less toxicity on the platform. That's right, on Twitter you are going to have the option to select which audiences hear and can reply to what you're putting out there. Yep, that's right. You could say, well, I just want people that follow me, I just want this certain type of person. Now, this may not seem like a huge deal, but for a lot of people out there that put out, let's say, controversial things, it's going to allow them to decide who can and cannot reply, and that's gonna eliminate a lot of the back and forth. Now, there are definitely gonna be some ranging opinions on this of whether it's too restrictive, but that the power isn't given to Twitter to make that decision, it's given to the person who puts the post down. I really like it. Let me know down below what you think. You think about this idea of Twitter allowing you to limit which audiences can reply and which ones cannot. If you guys are new to Good Social Media Morning, what we do here is break down the latest updates, trending content, conference news, you name it, we try to give it to you in 5 minutes or less. So if you are new and that's something that you would like daily in your feed, click that subscribe button down there, the little bell next to it, you're gonna get notified every morning when I drop the video, alright? Let's do this.
