My birthday wish for you

It’s my birthday week. It’s summer. You’re reading a newsletter about social media. I’d venture to say we’re all in a pretty good place in our lives right now despite some headlines and social media trending topics that want to leave me feeling otherwise.

Do me a favor? Go out and do something truly fun for yourself, will you? Reignite a bit of your spark again. It’s my birthday wish for you.

My husband bought us tickets to a concert last week featuring some of my favorite all-time artists and it was glorious. I was fully alive. Please reply and let me know what you end up doing and how it felt.

INSTAGRAM: Is Instagram getting me closer and closer to being on my husband’s music producer skill level? 🤪

Instagram Will Enable You To Add 20 Audio Tracks to Reels [SocialMediaToday]

INSTAGRAM: Once again, they keep pushing Notes. It’s become a game of trying to guess where the feature will end up next.

A new feature has entered your Feed 🚨✨ [@instagram]

INSTAGRAM: They’re not coming after YouTube anytime soon.

Instagram is sticking to short videos, says Adam Mosseri [TheVerge]

INSTAGRAM: VERY excited about this. Collaborating on Instagram is a big growth hack right now.

Instagram’s Looking to Enable Retrospective Tags for Collaborative Posts [SocialMediaToday]

META: Not that this is breaking news, but we’re in for a bumpy social media ride through this election season.

Meta Lifts All Restrictions on Trump’s Accounts Ahead of US Election [SocialMediaToday]

SOCIAL MEDIA: Always good to bookmark an updated version of this.

2024 Social Media Image Sizes for All Networks [CHEATSHEET] [Hootsuite]

TIKTOK: It’s one of those seemingly smaller updates, but could be very beneficial to someone reading this who uses TikTok to promote events regularly.