Day: August 21, 2020

Today’s news digest is taken from HEM News Agency’s ‘HEM Businesses‘ list on Twitter. Blogging and marketing site The Social Ms promoted an article about how bloggers can improve their site visitor numbers and social media followers through teaming up with others in their field via guest posting. Chief blogger Susanna Gebauer narrates the story of how she approached another renowned blogger, Jeff Bullas, in 2012, and ended up seeing her Twitter follower tally double from 430 to around a 1,000 followers after publishing just a couple of guest articles on his blog – How one Guest Post Doubled my Social Audience (The Social Ms)

Instazood, a worldwide user service for Instagram fans, announced that the video sharing giant YouTube is calling time on its email notification service for newly released videos after a lack of interest from the site’s community. The notifications are to be shelved next…

This morning’s News Digest comes from Facebook. The Guardian, a UK liberal-leaning broadsheet, has reported that despite the Bank of England’s new governor, Andrew Bailey, stating that the UK did better than expected economically during the pandemic, his analysis was in fact ‘faulty’. Guardian writer Phillip Inman, however, claims that the country is not really recovering after all – Britain isn’t ‘recovering’, whatever the Bank may suggest (The Guardian)

The government of Mauritius has been heavily criticised for its lack of action in quickly tackling the recent MV Wakashio disaster which saw an oil tanker run aground on coral reefs and spills thousands of litres of crude into pristine Indian Ocean waters, threatening the country’s unique ecosystems. Mauritian journalist Nad Sivaramen, who writes for French-language paper L’Express, voiced his disgust and criticism of the administration in an opinion piece and demanded answers to why the Wakashio made the journey…