#MidweekMinute 12/4/19: now with extra jazz hands!

Where were you for The Great Thanksgiving Facebook & Instagram Blackout of 2019?…

Facebook is going to start allowing users to transfer their photos more easily to third party partners, starting with Google Photos. The feature is being rolled out to Ireland first, with the rest of the world expected to follow in early 2020.

Facebook’s cracking down even further on preventing discrimination via ad targeting, expanding the rules to include every possible place one could purchase ads on the platform (not just within Ads Manager) and expanding the public ad library to make housing ad targeting more visible.

Instagram’s testing making your phone vibrate when you like a post. This was uncovered by reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong, who also discovered that Twitter is working on nested replies (like Reddit).

Wondering what to Tweet? The new 2020 @TwitterBusiness Calendar highlights upcoming events and how to Tweet about them.

Twitter has released Twitter Brand Surveys as a way to measure ad recall.

Twitter has also introduced the Twitter Privacy Center, a hub for all privacy-related information, features, and releases.

Don’t freak out if your YouTube subscriber count is down: YouTube is removing closed accounts.