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Searching social media and online news: Social media: beyond Instagram, TikTok and X

Searching online for breaking news about art and the art world

 

 

New social media platforms come and go - and change in popularity - all the time. The best way to find out about new platforms is often on existing platforms. For instance, an artist may tweet about content they have just added to a new platform.

Equally, people you already follow are often the best source of leads to new people to follow. A blogger of interest to you will probably link to other relevant blogs. 

 

Alternatives to X (Twitter) are discussed in this article from November 2022. 

 

Mastodon is discussed in this article, which lists many resources for making the most of this platform.

 

Pinterest  is a huge website, mainly for sharing images found online. Pinterest is best-known for consumer products, but is so big that the amount of art-related content is still very large.  

 

Different platforms are popular in different countries. For instance, Weibo, often described as the Chinese-language X (Twitter), is important in China.