🤨 Instagram’s follower minimum, TikTok Footnotes, and songs of the week…

Instagram has new follower count updates you might want to know about… Here’s what else is going on:

📰 Content Creator News

 
🤨 1000 follower minimum?

Instagram rolled out new requirements and features. Starting Aug 1, 2025, accounts need at least 1,000 followers to host live streams. This aligns IG with TikTok and YouTube’s live criteria but has drawn backlash from small creators concerned about accessibility

📖 Read more: Instagram now requires users to have at least 1,000 followers to go live

 🦶TikTok Footnotes?

TikTok introduced a suite of safety and creator tools. It launched “Footnotes” – a crowdsourced fact-checking feature akin to Community Notes – with ~80,000 US users qualified to add context or corrections to videos

📖 Read more: TikTok launches 'Footnotes' fact-checking feature in the US to curb misinformation

📌 Pinterest and AI

Pinterest introduced new visual search tools that let users refine searches with images and AI, making content discovery more personalized. For example, users can long-press any Pin to search visually, or get auto-generated keywords describing an image’s style

📖 Read More: Introducing new visual search features for a more personalized discovery experience

🎧 Trending songs of the Week

The Subway- Chappell Roan 🎶

Fast - Demi Lovato 🎶

GET NAKED - DC THE DON 🎶