Category: Social

Elon Musk’s long-promised move to strip free blue ticks from Twitter users swung into action on Thursday, dividing the have-paids from the have-nots. Like some kind of fable in which the chosen few ascend to a higher plane, accounts with a Twitter Verified check began rising above the rest — a rapture that left most […]

Twitter chief Elon Musk has threatened to sue Microsoft after the technology giant announced plans to drop his social media company from its advertising platform. “They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time,” Musk tweeted. The tech giant earlier in a notice said that its advertising platform “will no longer support Twitter” from April 25. […]

Meta Platforms on Wednesday carried out another round of job cuts, this time hitting engineers and adjacent tech teams, as Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg further moved to streamline the business in a bid to make 2023 a “year of efficiency.” Meta in March became the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of […]

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, held its Snap Partner Summit 2023 on Tuesday (April 19) and introduced a slew of new features and experiences to enhance user experience on the platform. The company has added new options to its signature story formats in the annual event and added fresh Calling Lenses and location-sharing options […]

Instagram has been updated to add a new capability that has been requested by several users on the popular video and image sharing platform. Users could previously share a link on their profile bio. The company is now rolling out the ability to add up to five links, in a move that will help its […]

Meta Platforms Inc. is set to commence companywide layoffs on Wednesday as it restructures teams and works toward founder Mark Zuckerberg’s goal of greater efficiency. The Facebook parent company notified managers to prepare to announce job cuts on Wednesday, via a memo seen by Bloomberg News. It indicates Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Reality Labs — […]

WhatsApp and other messaging services have united to oppose Britain’s plan to force tech companies to break end-to-end encryption in private messages in its proposed internet safety legislation. Meta-owned WhatsApp, Signal and five other apps signed an open letter saying the law could give an “unelected official the power to weaken the privacy of billions […]

Social media platform Twitter will allow freedom of speech but not “freedom of reach” as it will restrict visibility of tweets that violate its rules, the company said in its policy update. Twitter will initially apply the visibility filter on tweets that are found violating hateful conduct rules and expand it to other domains later. […]

Elon Musk on Monday responded to Canada’s public broadcaster’s saying it will pause its activities on Twitter after being labelled as “government-funded media”. Replying to CBC’s threats, Elon Musk tweeted, “Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they’re ‘less than 70 percent government-funded, so we corrected the label.” Earlier, CBC spokesperson Leon Mar said, “Twitter can be a powerful […]

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform, is reportedly working on a new feature that will let users send animated emoji. The feature has been spotted in development on the latest desktop beta version of the popular messaging service. Animated emoji are currently supported on messaging services like Telegram and Slack and offer a richer conversation […]

Elon Musk is out to counter Microsoft and Google artificial intelligence efforts with “truth-seeking AI” that shuns political correctness, he said during an interview aired late Monday. The billionaire boss of Twitter and Tesla voiced anew his concerns about the danger of AI, saying it has “the potential of civilizational destruction.” He said he was […]

The Delhi High Court has granted time to the Centre to inform it about the steps taken for regulating content on social media and over-the-top (OTT) platforms. The high court had earlier directed the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) to take steps for stricter enforcement of its rules with regard to the […]

When the iconic US diaper company Huggies was swamped with false pedophilia allegations last month, the conspiracy was traced to a once-banned influencer reinstated to Twitter by Elon Musk. The Tesla tycoon bitterly denies that misinformation has surged since his turbulent $44 billion (roughly Rs. 3,62,100 crore) acquisition of the messaging platform, but experts say […]

WhatsApp has introduced a number of new security features designed to make it harder to take over other people’s accounts. The features extend the app’s focus on privacy and security, which has claimed that online chats and discussions are supposed to be as private and safe as in-person conversations. Many of the innovations relevant to […]

Twitter-owner Elon Musk said on Thursday users of the social media platform will be able to offer their followers subscriptions to content, including long-form text and hours-long video. Users offering the subscription, a feature they can access through the “Monetization” tab in settings, will get all the money subscribers pay apart from the charges platforms […]

US radio broadcaster NPR on Wednesday said it was quitting Twitter, in the first significant defection by a major news outlet since Elon Musk’s tumultuous takeover of the platform. The exit caps a week-long row over Twitter’s decision to label National Public Radio as a “state-affiliated media,” branding it the same way as it does […]

Samsung One UI 5.1 based on Android 13 was announced during the launch of the Galaxy S23 series in February. While the update brought several improvements to the devices, including an enhanced camera experience, it was reported to cause excess battery draining on Samsung Galaxy devices. Specifically, the Samsung Keyboard app was said to increase […]

Social media company Twitter on Wednesday informed the High Court of Karnataka that its petition challenging the various takedown orders of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) was maintainable, as the concept of reasonableness in Article 19 of the Constitution of India pertaining to Freedom of Speech was applicable to it. Advocate Manu […]

WhatsApp’s companion mode feature is reportedly available to all Android beta testers. The functionality, which allows users to link an existing WhatsApp account to an additional mobile phone, has been in development for quite some time now. The companion mode functionality is an extension of multi-device support and is said to have been rolled out […]

Elon Musk said on Wednesday that he did not know “what exactly happened” when Twitter took down content related to a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi earlier this year, adding that some rules related to social media content were “quite strict” in India. In January, India ordered the blocking of a BBC documentary […]

Twitter boss Elon Musk said running the social media network has been “quite a rollercoaster” and acknowledged “many mistakes” along the way, six months after he bought the company for $44 billion (roughly Rs. 36,117,399 crores). In a live interview with the BBC after agreeing to a last-minute invitation for the “spontaneity” of it, Musk […]

Elon Musk on Tuesday set a deadline for purging legacy blue check-marks from Twitter accounts verified under the company’s previous regime. “Final date for removing legacy Blue checks is 4/20,” tweeted billionaire owner of Twitter, Musk. This means that if you have a legacy verified account on Twitter with a blue mark, you will have […]

Twitter Inc. has ceased to be an independent company after merging with a newly formed shell firm called X Corp., driving speculation about what Elon Musk intends for the social media platform. Twitter “no longer exists” after being merged with X Corp., according to an April 4 document submitted in a California court for a […]

Twitter‘s income from advertising will fall by 28 percent in 2023, a closely watched forecast said Tuesday, as the platform struggles under the ownership of Elon Musk. Analysts at Insider Intelligence said they were slashing an earlier worldwide revenue estimate of $4.74 billion (roughly Rs. 38,900 crore) by more than a third to $2.98 billion […]

YouTube has rolled out a bunch of new features for premium users on iOS and Android apps including the ability to add videos in a queue, and watch content together via Meet live sharing/ shareplay, 1080p HD video support, and smart downloads. These features are only available to Premium subscribers. The Smart Downloads feature will […]

Three top Twitter executives who were sacked by Elon Musk last year when he took over the social media company filed suit on Monday, seeking to be reimbursed for costs of litigation, investigations and congressional inquiries related to their former jobs. Ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, along with the company’s former chief legal and financial officers, claim […]

WhatsApp, the Meta-owned instant messaging platform, is always getting new features to ensure a great user experience. After news of an updated app UI coming to the Android version, WhatsApp is now said to be bringing another change that could help with saving contact details. The feature has been reportedly spotted in the beta version […]

WhatsApp, the popular cross-platform instant messaging app owned by Meta, is reportedly working on a new feature for iOS that will improve the way to share WhatsApp statuses in Facebook stories. The service was recently spotted working on a new option that will allow users to share their status updates to Facebook stories without leaving […]

Twitter has backtracked after an uproar for labelling the US radio network NPR as “state- affiliated media” and now calls it “government-funded.” Elon Musk’s social media network has also applied that new label to the BBC, which is funded predominantly by British households paying a license fee. Britain’s beloved national broadcaster has reached out to […]

Twitter’s revoking of legacy verified accounts might finally be getting underway as it has begun a mass unfollowing and now follows ‘no one.’ On the ‘Twitter Verified‘ account, the following has hit the rock bottom as it has reached ‘Zero.’ Twitter’s approximately followed 420,000 legacy verified accounts earlier. Twitter had earlier warned of winding down […]