Welcome back to #TheDailyThree, a weekday recap featuring three top stories in digital + a few thoughts. Today Snap steals a feature from Instagram, Twitter steals a feature from Facebook, and Science Magazine tells us what we all long expected.
1. Snapchat has taken a page from IG’s playbook + added the ability to tag other users, allowing viewers to see the tagged user’s profile @ a glance. For a company so innovative, they’re always late to add nearly every obvious feature that would improve the UX.
2. Speaking of taking pages from playbooks, Twitter is toying of opening verification to everyone, much like Facebook does w/ pages. Understandably, verification was a was to confirm identity but has instead been viewed as credibility. This is a playfield leveler.
3. In the unsurprising news of the day, Science Magazine published a paper stating that false news spreads 70% faster than real news. Contrary to what one would think, bots did not account for the stat, but rather a human emotional response. #TheDailyThree