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Local journalists spend a lot of time building up trust from their community, and when accounts get hacked, that trust can be eroded. Twitter has seen an uptick in hacked account cases from journalists lately, and gave us these 3 easy steps to secure your account and make sure your audience can continue to rely…
We’ll admit…we ask a lot of our Test Drive Team members. ‘Please run our new features through the paces, give us brutal feedback and then blog about it.‘ End result? A better product for you. Doug Rogers from Lilly Broadcasting was kind of enough to share his experience with SND Planner – our new hybrid…
We released SND Planner today and unleashed a bunch of eye-opening comments, compliments and genuine enthusiasm from our clients. We’re all high-fiving behind the scenes because we KNOW this is a feature set newsrooms need now. Read more feedback! Where to find SND Planner! Sign up for a live training webinar! SND Planner is comprehensive,…
Twitter’s new policy for account verification goes into effect soon. And the platform is warning, if you haven’t updated your account by January 20, 2021, you could lose your verification status. Here’s what your newsroom needs to know: Twitter recently released what it’s calling a draft of the company’s new verification policy. Changes aren’t monumental…
Did you know you can get all of your important Twitter insights right from Social News Desk’s SND Dashboard? The Twitter Scorecard Report allows you to monitor both owned accounts and public accounts. See how you’re performing in comparison with other newsrooms and publishers. The Twitter Scorecard Report includes the following insights: Followers – Total…
Social News Desk has partnered with the team at Twitter to bring newsrooms the ability to tweet longer videos. This functionality is part of the Twitter Media Studio which is available only to white-listed media accounts. If your account is white-listed, you’ll now see a prompt in the Media Upload section of your post composer…
Midterm elections are just around the corner! And Twitter’s News team is conducting a series of webinars to share their latest updates, best practices and #protips for journalists. These webinars are open to everyone in your newsroom, so please feel free to share the sign-up links with them so they can participate. Video &…
By now you’ve probably heard… Twitter is changing the way it interacts with third-party tools. But if you’re worried about how that might impact SND… don’t be. Any changes relevant to us (and you) have already been made and we’re guessing you didn’t even notice? That’s because all third-party tools aren’t created equal. Companies like…
Twitter recently made changes to their rules about posting “identical or substantially similar content to multiple accounts simultaneously.” As a result, newsrooms can no longer post the same story link to multiple Twitter accounts at the same time with the same text. One way around that is to tweet once to a core account, then retweet from…
Yes, it’s true: Twitter is making big changes to its rules and policies. Specifically the company says it’s trying to crack down on “spammy” use of automation to multiple accounts. And while you may not have ever considered your newsroom’s Twitter-strategy to be “spammy”… in a nutshell, Twitter is saying it is. And they want you…