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YouTube ‘Shorts’ to rival TikTok
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YouTube is working on a feature, called 'Shorts', that will allow users to make short videos like TikTok - a video-sharing app by China-based ByteDance. The 'Shorts' are expected to be a part of the YouTube mobile apps that will be available by...
Business
Facebook says ads revenue is weakening due to COVID-19 outbreak
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Facebook said it had seen its ads business weakening with the outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus, which accounts for nearly all of its revenue, despite more people are using its social platforms during the lockdown. The services which are seeing a surge, like a...
Facebook
Facebook blocked some posts about coronavirus, due to a bug
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Facebook undergoes a bug in its News Feed spam filter, which caused the platform to remove some posts with content about the Coronavirus (COVID-19) information mistakenly. Users complained that the links to their new-stories related to Cornavirus are being removed on the ground of...
Apps
Twitter introduces Fleets, Snapchat like self-deleting Stories
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Twitter, joining the fray of social media sites, is now testing its impression of Stories in Brazil. The company dubbed Snapchat stories like feature to "Fleets," allowing users to post temporary content on their Twitter accounts which disappears after 24 hours. The stories...
Apps
Dark Mode for WhatsApp is now available for the latest versions of Android and iOS
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WhatsApp has finally rolled out its dark mode for every iOS and Android user. The dark mode will operate on systems with iOS 13 and Android 10 levels. Android 9 users can also switch to it with a few settings. According to WhatsApp,...
Apps
Instagram “Latest Posts” feed sort is coming back, leaks suggest
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Instagram will introduce to its users with an option to see all the content that they might have missed based on the sorting order of when they were posted. In other words, Instagram is about to roll out "Latest Posts" feature to sort...
Facebook
Facebook and Twitter refused to take down edited Nancy Pelosi video posted by Donald Trump
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President Donald Trump posted an edited video of Nancy Pelosi on social media to show that Pelosi, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, tears up his State of the Union speech repeatedly. Nancy Pelosi appears to make tiny tears in Trump's State of the Union speech...
Facebook
Instagram rolls out new Following Categories feature
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Instagram has just introduced a new feature in its platform called Following Categories. This feature, by the photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, in the followings list of a profile allows users to see updates from the people they love...
Featured
Ryan Roslansky to take up charge from Jeff Weiner as CEO of LinkedIn
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Jeff Weiner, who has been leading the company LinkedIn as a CEO for the past 11 years, will now be taking the seat of executive chairman of the company. Whereas, Ryan Roslansky, who is currently leading as head of the product, will step up...
Social Networks
Cristiano Ronaldo is world’s first person to hit 200 million Instagram followers
Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) becomes the first human that hit a record number of 200 million followers on Instagram. The star footballer comes at second in Instagram accounts list as the first place is occupied by official Instagram (@instagram) account itself with 330 million...