Source: Pocketnow, Meta Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced a few significant changes coming to the Facebook application very soon. The new changes will affect...
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Former US President Donald Trump has revealed his plans of launching his own social media platform in 2022. Dubbed “TRUTH Social,” Trump says it’s his way...
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According to a new report from The Verge, Facebook is planning to change its name. The social media giant is planning to change its name to reflect its...
Twitter is getting annoying with the increasing number of ads on the platform, especially on mobile apps. Get ready to bad-mouth Twitter even more as the...
After rolling it out to beta users, WhatsApp has officially started rolling out end-to-end encrypted cloud backups to all Android and iPhone users, the company said...
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Instagram is one of the most used social media apps on Earth. With over 1.3 billion people on its platform, Instagram going down becomes a piece...
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Instagram — well mostly its parent company Facebook — has been under scrutiny for the past week. First, Facebook’s ex-product manager Frances Haugen gave an interview...
2020 saw the rise of a new category of social media — live audio rooms. The first one to come up with the idea was Clubhouse,...
WhatsApp introduced its controversial policy update earlier this year. The new policy would mandate users to share their data with Facebook when a user messages a WhatsApp Business...
WhatsApp introduced its controversial policy update earlier this year. The new policy would mandate users to share their data with Facebook when a user messages a WhatsApp Business...
The popular short-video social media app TikTok is testing a new feature for its app. After increasing the video limit to three minutes late last year,...
Twitter is looking to establish a strong foothold in the social audio rooms market as it continues to add more and more features to Spaces. The...
Last year, Instagram rolled out a new feature called “suggested posts.” These posts appear when you’ve finished reading recent posts from those you follow. They are...
Facebook announced in April that it is working on its own podcast feature. The company could reportedly launch its new podcast product on June 22. The...
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Twitter recently announced a Super Follow feature to let the creators on its platform charge for their content. If you Super Follow a creator on Twitter,...
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed in 2020 that the company was exploring such a business model. Recently, reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong spotted another trace of a subscription...
After testing and talking about it for months, Instagram is finally rolling out the ability to let users hide the number of likes on a post....
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Facebook’s grand vision of deeper integration and interoperability between the communication platforms it owns is nothing new. So far, these plans have encompassed abilities such as...
Twitter is bringing back the account verification system that allows users to apply for getting the coveted ‘blue’ check on its platform. After suspending account verification...
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Earlier this year, Facebook announced that a safer version of Instagram that is targeted at kids under the age of 13 is in development. Instagram has...
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Apple released iOS 14.5 last week, introducing a host of features such as new Siri voices, unlocking an iPhone with your Apple Watch, and AirTags support...
Facebook unveiled its own publishing platform for independent writers last month that would allow them to create individual websites and newsletters, complete with monetization tools such...
Facebook is taking another go at emulating the success of Clubhouse at popularizing audio chatrooms. And this time, the company is relying on its biggest social...
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The Telegram app has received a new update on Android and iOS that adds a ton of new features. The most notable one is support for...
Earlier this month, Facebook announced that the social media app will soon get a Spotify mini-player that will allow users to enjoy music and podcast pulled...
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Over a month ago, Twitter revealed that it is testing high-resolution image uploads, allowing users to share 4K pictures without any weird compression ruining the details....
Earlier this year in February, Instagram announced that those who frequently send abusive messages will have their accounts disabled, and new accounts created to get around...
Facebook has today extensively detailed its plans as to how it plans to exploit audio as the next avenue for growth. The social media behemoth has...
Earlier this month, a report from Mashable mentioned that Reddit was also exploring an audio chatroom feature to take away some thunder from Clubhouse. After all,...
In June last year, Facebook expanded the availability of its data transfer tool that allows users to move their photos and videos to services such as...
The new WhatsApp privacy regulations have forced users to shift to other messaging apps. Now, these ‘other’ apps are rolling out features to their offerings to...
In March this year, some Instagram users started noticing that the like count on their posts was abruptly gone. Well, it was not due to a...
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It often happens on social media that people fall for a satire piece and think of it as real news. And no, I’m not just talking...
Facebook has been rumored to be at work on its own audio chatroom platform to ape the Clubhouse success story. Well, the social media juggernaut has...
So, the data of over half a billion Facebook users was leaked and recently found floating around the internet. No, I’m not talking about hidden hacker...
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Twitter recently rolled out its Clubhouse-rival and audio chatroom feature called Spaces to Android. It’s only logical to believe that Twitter Spaces for desktop would be coming...
Clubhouse gained popularity for its unique audio rooms feature. But you know what being popular means in the social media land – you get copied. It...
Earlier this month, Twitter finally brought its audio chatroom feature called Spaces over to the Android ecosystem. But so far, the ability to create a chatroom...
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Twitter hasn’t always had a good reputation when it comes to implementing features that users demand. Take for example the ability to edit tweets, which only...
Instagram has today announced that it will soon let users save their stories as a draft. The feature was confirmed by Instagram chief Adam Mosseri, however,...
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Twitter began surveying users about a subscription tier all the way back in July last year, merely days after CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed that the company...
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Instagram is following in the footsteps of Facebook by creating a version of its platform tailored for kids under 13. Just a few days ago, Instagram...
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Facebook is boosting the security aspect of using its social media platform on mobile devices by adding support for physical security keys. Starting today, users across...
With each passing quarter, TikTok sets a new growth benchmark, filling its coffers with more money and making lucrative deals riding a wave of unprecedented growth....
Facebook has today announced that it is enforcing stricter rules governing Group conversations. To start, the company is expanding its restrictions around civic and political groups...
About 76 percent of American teens age 13-17 use Instagram. Hence, it is the duty of the platform to keep them safe. Instagram has announced that it...
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Instagram has announced that it is introducing the COVID-19 Information Center globally. It will help connect people to more information about the pandemic from health authorities,...
Facebook has announced a new feature that aims to help you get registered for COVID-19 vaccination. The company has announced that it is launching a tool that...
Clubhouse, the audio-based social networking platform has seen a tremendous growth in the pandemic. Over the past few months, the growth has triggered companies like Twitter...
Facebook had today made a slew of announcements covering how more content creators can generate revenue from its platform. Aside from expanding the availability of its...
Twitter’s live voice-based chatroom feature, Spaces – the Clubhouse rival – was launched late last year. Since then, the company has either kept it in closed beta testing...
TikTok is riding a wave of unprecedented growth and popularity right now, especially in the US market. But if the history of social media platforms over...
So, if you are a Twitter user, you certainly must be aware of its weird cropping algorithm. You upload an image with your cat at the...
Twitter launched its Clubhouse rival, Spaces, which is a live voice-based chatroom feature late last year in December. It remained in closed beta testing phase for a...
Instagram is testing a new automatic captioning feature that will give a significant boost to the accessibility aspect of its platform. First spotted by social media...
Facebook has been expanding Reels since the day the feature was introduced on Instagram. Now, the company is testing a feature on Instagram that will allow...
Earlier this week, some Instagram users noticed that the number of likes on their posts was hidden, which later turned out to be a bug that...
People like me have been requesting Twitter to give us an edit button to fix our typos. I, for one, still haven’t gotten used to the...
Late last year, it was reported that WhatsApp was testing voice and video calls on its web client. The company later rolled out the feature in...
Twitter launched its own take on a live voice-based chatroom feature called Spaces late last year in December. However, it has been in the closed beta...
Looks like live group chats are going to be the next big social media trend. Clubhouse is generating some buzz these days. Twitter is doing Spaces....
At the peak of its feud with Apple over privacy policy changes that allowed users to opt out of ad-tracking, Facebook launched a campaign called Small...
Facebook has a whole division called NPE that often comes up with new apps and services, and many of which get buried frequently too. The latest...
As part of its analyst day presentation, Twitter has shared plans of new tools destined to arrive on its platform soon. One of them is a...
Earlier this month, it was reported that Twitter is testing a slew of new features, one of which was a tipping model that would allow creators...
Telegram is adding a slew of new features with the new update. It is introducing an auto-delete feature for messages, home screen widgets, expiring invite links,...
Instagram Lite debuted in June 2018 but was shut down in May 2020. It came back in September 2020, and soon after rolled out in India....
As part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (February 22-28), social media apps are teaming up with the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) to provide support...
A few days back, Facebook blocked publishers and residents from sharing news content in Australia. Facebook said that it would prioritize investments to other countries “as...
Google, Facebook, and Twitter head honchos will sit for another round of questioning before Congress on March 25, addressing the role of their platforms in handling...
TikTok is on the rise, and despite a host of setbacks and intense scrutiny over privacy fears lately, the viral short-form video-sharing app continues to reach...
Twitter rolled out its voice-based tweets recently. Now, the company is bringing the ability to use your voice in the DMs. Twitter is now testing a...
ByteDance is said to be in talks to sell its India operations of TikTok in a bid to rival unicorn Glance. According to a new report,...
Facebook might be readying to expand the horizons of its hardware ambitions big time in 2022. After delving into the world of VR headsets and later...
In August 2020, Twitter announced that it will be adding two more criteria for labeling a Twitter account. It started labeling accounts of key government officials and...
Instagram has today announced a few updated guidelines governing abusive behavior and hateful speech in messages. The Facebook-owned social media platform has announced that repeat offenders...
Clubhouse – the buzzy audio-driven social media platform that is making waves these days – is still in the beta stage and limited to the iOS...
So, Instagram is now openly showing its disdain for TikTok, or content taken from the viral social media platform. Less than a year after Instagram cloned...
Facebook has today made a couple of major announcements regarding its effort to assist with COVID-19 vaccination efforts. First, the company will help people find reliable...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed back in July last year that Twitter was considering a subscription-based model of its social media platform, but it was all...
TikTok now has an Android TV app. Yes, if you needed more reason to waste time watching videos of cats raising hell or some dude on...
TikTok already has a content monitoring system that checks videos for harmful or misleading content, and gets them removed if deemed necessary. In some scenarios though,...
Facebook has today announced that it is bringing Messenger to its Oculus line of VR headsets. For now, it appears that the Facebook-owned messaging service will...
When it comes to Instagram hacks, the most common form of damage that malicious actors inflict is deleting content such as pictures and videos that form...
Clubhouse – the audio-driven chat platform that played host to Tesla CEO Elon Musk a couple of days ago – has exploded in popularity lately. Even...
In the wake of the massive privacy outcry over WhatsApp’s controversial policy update a few weeks ago, a user exodus to alternative instant messaging platforms has...
Newsletters have lately exploded in popularity, giving independent writers a platform to make money via a subscription model without being on the payroll of a publication....
Last chance to pre-order your Samsung Galaxy S21 with huge discounts More Android smartphones from OnePlus, Google and more are on sale B&H has several MacBook...
WhatsApp is making the experience of using its instant messaging platform on desktop a tad more secure by adding support for fingerprint and face unlock. The...
In 2020, Twitter announced its application programming interface to give developers access to the site’s public data. The company is adding a new feature to this interface....
When it comes to fighting fake news and misinformation, Twitter has often been criticized for failing to combat the menace. And even though the company has...
Facebook is improving its Automatic Alternative Text (AAT) technology to better utilize object recognition to generate descriptions of photos on demand. It will enable the blind...
When it comes to social media platforms, Q&A are a great solution for celebrities and creators to engage with their fan base. And it is a...
Facebook has today announced upgrades to its AI-based object recognition system called automatic alternative text (AAT) that brings up descriptions of photos for folks who are...
Snapchat has decided to permanently suspend the account of Donald Trump after putting an indefinite ban on it following the Capitol Hill riots earlier this month....
So, it has happened at last. In what can be called the beginning of de-platforming Donald Trump from social media, Twitter has finally put in place...
Following the chaos that erupted yesterday when Pro-Trump supporters laid siege to the US Capitol Hill, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook removed a...
So, a lot has happened today in the world of social media in the aftermath of Pro-Trump supporters storming the US Capitol Hill, forcing personnel to...
If you’re in the US – or have just been following the international news in the past few hours irrespective of your location – you surely...
Facebook has today announced a major design overhaul for Pages and has also made a few major functional tweaks as well. The new design has already...
The podcast wars are truly heating. Merely days after Amazon acquired podcast-maker Wondery and merged it with its Amazon Music division, another podcast platform has fallen...
If there’s one rule that health experts and authorities have been trying to promote with utmost urgency, it’s that ‘gatherings are bad in a pandemic.’ But...
Telegram is one of the most feature-rich instant messaging platforms out there, and also happens to be one that puts maximum effort when it comes to...
Facebook’s war against Apple is a hot topic of discussion in the tech and social media universe right now. The reason behind all this bickering? Apple...
It goes without saying that conversations on Twitter can quickly turn ugly, especially the comments section where a war of words often erupts between folks you...
Twitter revealed plans to bring back its verification program a few weeks ago, following a period of user feedback on how to improve it for the...
Amidst the US elections, Twitter made a host of policy and functional changes. It did so to curb the spread of misleading information. As one of the...
Instagram Lute was launched in June 2018 in some parts of the world. Back in May, it was shut down but it came back in September...
Alright. If you’re among the folks who share screenshots or the URL of tweets on Snapchat (for reasons only known to you), there is some good...
Twitter paused its verifications program three years ago “after hearing feedback that it felt arbitrary and confusing to many people.” In June, it was reported that...
Ahead of the US elections, Twitter rolled out several new features including ‘read an article before retweeting’ prompt and quote tweet instead of retweeting. It started...
Ever since TikTok gained a reputation for being the go-to short videos app, other companies have launched their own variant of the popular app. Instagram was...
Instagram has introduced a slew of changes to its app in the past few months. Now, its navigation bar is getting a design overhaul with the...
WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature that lets you mute specific chats forever. It is adding a new ‘Always‘ option in chat settings. This feature has...
WhatsApp could soon bring its video call and voice call feature to the web client, says a new report. To recall, this feature was recently spotted...
Snapchat began testing a new feature called Sounds back in August, allowing users to add licensed music to their Stories and Snaps. However, the feature was...
In the days leading up to the US election, Twitter has made a host of policy and functional changes to ensure that the spread of misleading...
Instagram announced the Reels, which is a short-form video-sharing feature recently. It tested the feature in India, Brazil, France, and Germany before rolling it out globally....
Twitter started an experiment back in June this year, as part of which, the social media platform asked users to read an article before retweeting it....
Telegram has today received a new update on its mobile and desktop clients that brings a host of useful new features. The first one, and possibly...
Facebook has long harbored plans of deeper integration and interoperability between all its properties viz. Instagram, Facebook, Messenger and WhatsApp. Instagram recently added a dedicated Messenger...
Facebook introduced a new feature last month that would allow businesses to host paid online events and announced that it won’t charge any fee as a...
Back in June, Twitter began testing a new feature that would ask users to read an article before retweeting it. The prompt appeared when Twitter’s algorithms...
Instagram announced the Reels, short-form video-sharing feature a few months back. It tested the feature in India, Brazil, France, and Germany before rolling it out globally....
Twitter recently introduced audio tweets, which as the name suggests, lets users send out voice recordings as tweets rather than typing them. While the feature was...
It looks like everyone is after the craze of stories. Snapchat kickstarted the trend a while ago, then Instagram borrowed the idea to great success, Facebook...
Facebook currently offers content creators a suite of copyright tools called “Rights Manager” that allows them to control how their music or video content is shared...
As the US Presidential election inches closer, social media giants are under intense scrutiny and immense pressure to serve reliable information while also avoiding security-related disasters....
Everyone is jumping on the popularity of short videos these days, a domain popularized by TikTok. Instagram has Reels to go against TikTok, and now, YouTube...
We all are familiar with the story of how Facebook was originally created as a networking space for fellow students while Mark Zuckerberg was in his...
Area 120 – Google’s own experimental product wing – launched a new service called Fundo last year that was touted to be a virtual meet-and-greet platform...
Facebook detailed its plans of deeper integration and interoperability between the eponymous platform, Instagram and WhatsApp a while ago. The first signs of a unified Instagram...
Facebook expanded the availability of its data transfer tool to more users earlier this year in June, allowing the movement of media such as videos and...
Back in January last year, WhatsApp announced that it will be limiting the ability to forward messages to just five chats. It was followed by another...
Facebook is giving its News section a major push, but the company is not just trying to diversify its news content library and boost its availability,...
Earlier this month, Facebook unveiled a new feature that will allow businesses to hold paid online events and also announced that it won’t charge any fee...
Facebook is suing a man who sold fake Instagram likes and comments. His service was a part of a “fake engagement service,” Facebook said in a statement. The...
A few weeks ago, Microsoft confirmed that it is in talks to purchase TikTok’s operations in the US, following an executive order by President Trump threatening...
Facebook has today warned developers and publishers that changes made to iOS 14 will severely impact their ad revenue. The social media giant mentions in its...
Facebook rolled out its dedicated news tab for all users in the US back in June. Today, the company has announced that it is bringing the...
Just as previously reported (and expected), TikTok has sued the Trump administration over an executive order that threatens to ban the app in the country until...
Facebook started rolling out an update for its web version that included a new UI along with the dark mode in late March. It brought forth rounded icons,...
Instagram is rolling out a new feature called “suggested posts” that will appear when you’ve finished reading recent posts from those you follow. These posts will be...
Instagram is rolling out a QR codes feature that all users can generate, which opens their profiles. The feature was first released in Japan back in...
Facebook has today announced that businesses and creators can now host paid online events to help them make money as they struggle with shutdowns during the...
At the F8 conference in 2019, Facebook confirmed its plan to offer a unified chat experience that merges Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp conversations via interoperability. Now,...
Apple’s MacBook Air, iPad Pro and more devices on sale today Deals. Best Buy is currently running a major 3-Day Anniversary sale on Apple products. You...
It seems that Facebook has a new legal issue in its hands. The company was accused of “collecting, storing, and profiting” from the biometric data of...
Today marks the seventh year of Telegram’s debut, a journey during which the app has amassed over 400 million users across the globe who enjoy the...
A security researcher found that Instagram retained photos and private direct messages on its server even after deletion. He was awarded $6,000 bug bounty pay. The...
Instagram pushed the Reels live almost instantly after the TikTok ban in India. It made its way to the US and many other markets recently. Now,...
Instagram has announced that it will ask account holders to verify their identity if the account is shown to exhibit inauthentic behavior or trying to mislead...
Facebook has been battling the issue of misinformation for quite some time (with not too much of a success), but the company is trying to do...
Back in May, Twitter began testing a new feature that allows users to limit who can reply to their tweets. But so far, the feature has...
Back in July, TikTok announced what it calls the TikTok Creator Fund (initially starting with a $200 million chest) to support creators who make innovative content...
Twitter recently changed the language of Retweets to ‘Retweets with comments’. Now, the company is testing another overhaul to make quotes (also known as retweets with...
WhatsApp is way behind the competition when it comes to cross-platform syncing of chats. It is one of those things that worry people while switching from...
A few days ago, it was reported that US President was planning to ban TikTok in the country. Soon after, Microsoft confirmed that it is indeed exploring a...
Earlier this week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order prohibiting any transactions with TikTok’s parent company – ByteDance – after September 20 if the app’s...
In yet another major blow for TikTok, US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that bans all transactions with TikTok’s parent company – ByteDance...
Twitter has today announced that it is adding two more criteria for labeling a Twitter account. The first class will be key government officials and the...
WhatsApp has long been on the radar of law enforcement authorities for facilitating the spread of misinformation via its platform, something that is easily accomplished via...
In a bid to consolidate its foothold in the face of competition from TikTok and Instagram, Snapchat has launched a new feature that will allow users...
It was recently reported that Microsoft is in line to purchase the US operations of TikTok after the app came under the government’s scanner due to...
Facebook has today announced that it is bringing licensed official music videos to its platform in the US, after having tested it in India and Thailand....
The massive Twitter hack of July 15 – in which the accounts of high-profile people such as Barack Obama, Elon Musk and Bill Gates were hacked...
It was recently reported that Twitter is exploring a paid subscription-based model of its social media platform that might enter testing later this year. It now...
Twitter has revealed its Q2 2020 earnings figures, posting a revenue of $683 million inQ2 (down 19% YoY) and recording a growth of 34% in its...
Almost every social media service is doubling down on the potential of live video and group video calling, thanks to the new normal, and Facebook is...
In a bid to make your Messenger chats more secure, Facebook has introduced a new feature called App Lock that adds a layer of biometric security....
Instagram has started rolling out a Personal Fundraiser feature that will allow users to raise funds for a personal cause. The feature is currently being tested...
Unless you’ve been living in a monastery and have not shunned the internet, you must’ve been aware of the massive Twitter hack in which accounts of...
Reels, a new short-form video-sharing feature in Instagram that aims to rival TikTok, has so far been released in a handful of markets such as Brazil,...
Instagram announced a redesigned Shop section within the Explore section back in May. Fast forward to July, and the Facebook-owned company has officially started the rollout...
Twitter has announced a subtle change for its web client that will make it easier for users to access their DMs. The company has begun rolling...
Cryptocurrency scams often raise their head on social media, and the latest was huge, as it involved a ton of big names such as Tesla chief...
Facebook has announced a new feature for WhatsApp that makes it easier for customers to connect with businesses on the instant messaging platform. Earlier, users had...
The Indian government sent shock waves earlier this month after it announced that TikTok has been banned in the country citing national security risk, even though...
Instagram began testing a pinned comments feature among a small circle of users back in May. Now, the feature is out of the testing phase and...
At this point in time, we don’t need to explain why wearing a face mask is important, but to put it in simple words – wearing...
Facebook launched its own TikTok rival called Lasso late in 2018 and heavily promoted it in the subsequent months, but it ultimately failed to catch on....
Twitch, the top live streaming platform in the world right now, has temporarily suspended President Donald Trump’s account for violating its policies around hateful conduct. A...
Facebook has received a significant amount of flak lately when it comes to non-removal of contentious content from its platform in the name of preserving freedom...