Number of the day
Is your LinkedIn Page complete (and optimised)?
Complete LinkedIn Pages generate 30% more page views per week compared to incomplete ones.
Source: LinkedIn
Comment: If you need help with setting up, optimising or creating content or ads for your LinkedIn Page, get in touch.
Social news
Encouraging self-harm to be criminalised in Online Safety Bill
The encouragement of self-harm will be criminalised in an update to the Online Safety Bill, the government has said.
Content that encourages someone to harm themselves will be targeted in a new offence, making it illegal.
The government said the changes had been influenced by the case of Molly Russell - the 14-year-old who ended her life in November 2017.
bbc.co.uk
A Twitter executive said she's been working more than 75 hours a week because Elon Musk fired so many people
An executive at Twitter said she worked more than 75 hours a week since Elon Musk took charge of the company as a result of his firing a large number of employees, the Irish Times reported.
Sinead McSweeney said in a statement to a High Court in Ireland that her working hours soared to more than 75 in a week since the billionaire took over.
McSweeney, who is Twitter's global vice-president for public policy, provided a statement to the court in a successful bid for an injunction to block Twitter from firing her.
businessinsider.com
New features
Elon Musk says Twitter's verified service with colors to start this Friday
Twitter is planning to roll out its verified service this Friday with different coloured checks for individuals, companies and governments, after a botched initial launch led to a surge in users impersonating celebrities and brands on the platform.
Comment: Elon Musk says a lot of things that don't happen so it may or may not happen.
reuters.com
New private way to share Facebook posts
Meta is testing the addition of a Send in Instagram Direct Message button to Facebook posts.
Thanks to Radu Oncescu and Matt Navarra for this one.
Comment on Facebook Stories
More people are getting the option to allow public Comments on their Facebook Stories, including me.
Comment: I think I might have mentioned this last week!
Auto-captions for LinkedIn
LinkedIn is introducing auto-captions on videos.
Thanks to Matt Navarra for this one.
Videos
Physicists have designed a urinal that drastically reduces splashback
Scientists used observations of the angle at which dogs urinate and laboratory tests with jets of fluid to design a urinal that produces far less splatter than usual
newscientist.com
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