baby poop and holes in socks: your daily distraction...you're welcome.

We love to look at Google’s yearly roundup of top searches. This year, Hurricane Irma took the top spot. But it’s not all doom and gloom, as technology-related searches for the iPhone 8 and iPhone X took second and third place. Other digital giants (like Bitcoin and the Cash Me Outside Girl) also made the global and meme lists. Watch this space! Truly Social Inc. may be number one next year. 😉

Careful out there, peeps! There’s another Twitter spam app posing as a video going around. Masquerading as a cute video where a baby poops in his onesie, this trojan horse begins to auto-tweet from infected accounts. Remember, folks - don’t let that innocent face deceive you. Report that stuff!

In today’s social media backlash news, Illinois State hopeful, Arthur Noah Siegel, has apologized after sending out an insensitive tweet. While riding the Chicago rapid-transit system (known locally as the “L” - ironic really, as that’s exactly what he caught after sending the tweet), the Democratic candidate tweeted a photo about the hole in another passenger’s socks.  A politician showing disdain for the lower classes? We’ve never heard of such a thing!

Finally! Instagram now allows users to follow individual hashtags.  All you need to do is type in the hashtag you want to follow and shazam - the top posts containing the hashtag will start to appear in your feed. Don’t like what you’re seeing? Don’t worry; the feature will use the posts you like to ‘learn’ and provide better content. Let’s just hope that it doesn’t become self-aware like Skynet from the Terminator movies.

USA Today has released its list of best new podcasts of 2017. This year’s list includes the murder mystery classic S-town, and the exactly-as-it-sounds Levar Burton Reads. This’ll keep us busy while we wait for the bus in the mornings!

Have a happy Ice Cream day from all of us here at Truly Social Inc!