In this daily Social Media Morning video, the host delivers a concise roundup of the latest platform news and creator resources. He highlights Twitter's upcoming enhancements to lists and topics for improved sorting, YouTube's new Assisted Trim tool that automatically removes copyrighted segments to prevent strikes, and the U.S. military's ban on TikTok due to security concerns. The episode also points viewers to an Instagram 2020 success infographic, introduces Snapchat's Bitmoji TV which lets users star in personalized animated episodes, recaps the 2019 "Killer Content" showcase curated by Christine Gritman featuring creators like Phil Mershon and Madeline Sklar, and promotes Madeline Sklar's article on how to elevate a Twitter profile. The host encourages subscriptions, shares links, and invites audience feedback.
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It's a new year, guys, and we are right back at it. Good Social Media Morning, let's go. Alright, it took a brief hiatus heading into the new year. Really wanted to make sure I had dialed in on how I wanted this program to work, but we're back. It's going to be daily, Monday through Friday. Your social media feed is pumping, and I want to make sure that you don't miss all of this great content. So if you're not already subscribed, you don't have the notifications happening, do that right now. And let's get going. It is no secret I am a massive Twitter fan, and anytime I can get an update on Twitter, you know that I love it. So Twitter is playing around with the idea of enhancing their lists and topics so you can sort them a little bit better. This may not seem like a huge deal to a lot of people out there, but if you're an active user of lists on Twitter, this is gonna be a big help for you. So go ahead, as always guys, the links are down below. You can click these links, head to the article, get the full layout of what's going on. But there are some great plays that Twitter is looking to make to your lists and topics to help you better sort, filter, and organize those so you're not in the dark. Next up, YouTube is looking to give you guys a hand making sure that you are not getting copyright strikes. How are they gonna do this? Well, their assisted trim feature is actually looking to help you guys eliminate copyrighted content from your videos quick, easy, fast, and automated. So if you're not an editing expert and you find yourself getting copyright strikes for having copyrighted material somewhere in your video, the new assisted trim Trim feature from YouTube is going to help you out. Now this is a big one. US military has banned— banned, that's right— you cannot, as a member of the US Armed Forces, the US military, you cannot have a TikTok account. It has been banned. There are some security concerns about the Asian, uh, Chinese-based social media platform. I— this is unfortunate. We've seen a lot of great things come out of law enforcement, come out of military on TikTok. However, currently The US military has vetoed it. You will not be able to have a TikTok profile. So if you are in the military, you're watching this, ditch the profile. Time for some killer content here, guys. Start it all off, Instagram, all you Instagram junkies out there. Social Media Today has a phenomenal infographic about the data and details that you need to keep your eyes on in 2020 to find success on Instagram. So check that one out, guys. This next one I'm actually really excited for. So Snapchat is not a tool that I use a lot. I haven't played around with it. Kind of came into a decline just as I was kind of checking it out. But this is kind of cool. Bitmojis, you guys remember your Bitmojis? Everybody created one a little while back. Well, your Bitmojis are now going to be the stars of their own TV programs, episodes, animated series on Snapchat. That's right, Bitmoji TV is Snapchat's venture into online programming. They're going to create the episodes, you simply insert your Bitmoji and the Bitmojis of your friends You get a customized TV episode with you as the star. I think that's kind of a cool feature. I can't wait to see how it plays out, rolls out. I'm not sure what it does to actually bring people back to the platform, but we can wait and we will see. I'm excited for it though. Next up, looking back at 2019 is a big theme for social media guys, and Christine Gritman crushed it here on YouTube. She collected people from all over the social media world and got them to showcase their best piece of content from the entire year. I'm in it. Phil Mershon's in it, Madeline Sklar's in it. There's a whole long list of folks, people that you're gonna see pop up in this thing. It's a phenomenal resource, check it out. Some great content there. I couldn't overlook this in killer content. Well done, Christine. And the last piece of killer content for today, Madeline Sklar has a new article out on how you can crush your Twitter profile. So if you are looking to make Twitter part of your game in a big way this year, definitely check this out. It's a great way to get started, guys. That's it for today. Have an amazing social media morning. And you know, if this is helpful to you guys, if you've got friends friends out there that are trying to get into the social media game, they want to know what's happening out there, just send them the video, give them the link. Let me know what you think down below of all this killer content, guys, and I cannot wait to catch you tomorrow morning. Welcome back, Happy New Year!
