Justine Calma
“Feed is dead.”
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says, “People stopped sharing personal moments to feed years ago,” in a New Year’s Eve post about the future of the platform as generative AI produces more realistic-looking content.
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Emma Roth
Instagram wants to win over teens... but it might not understand them.
A report from The Washington Post reveals Meta’s recent push to attract more teens to Instagram, which reportedly involved setting up a “living museum” inside its offices “to help employees internalize the lifestyles of their teenage targets:”
In at least one case it featured photos of top teen hangout places — a fast-food restaurant and a mall — and instructions on how to take wacky, teen-style selfies, according to photos of the exhibit.
Inside Instagram’s all-out battle to win the nation’s teens
[The Washington Post]
Emma Roth
TikTok is “turning into a Chinese super app.”
During Semafor’s Mixed Signals podcast, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said TikTok is “very much applying lessons they’ve learned in China to the rest of the world:”
Super apps, which are very popular in China, are not popular in the same way outside of China, and I think they’re turning into a Chinese super app — and that may or may not work outside of China.
Dominic Preston
Tell us how you really feel.
Meta wants Threads to be the app you open first thing in the morning, and it sounds like some of you feel about the same way I do about that idea.
Vogon5:
Absolutely not lmao
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Jay Peters
Mango.
That’s the code-name of Meta’s new “new image and video-focused AI model,” The Wall Street Journal reports. The company is also developing an LLM code-named Avocado.
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Jay Peters
Disney Plus is now available on Meta Quest VR headsets.
Meta had already announced the streaming service was coming to its headsets, but now it’s here.
Jay Peters
We need to talk about your flair.
On Threads, that is; Meta is testing “flair” labels for users in Communities that will show up on your posts to indicate what you like to talk about. Users who are “Community champions” can decide the flair options, Meta says.
Jess Weatherbed