Public policy apparently isn’t hardcore enough for Elon Musk, either. Despite regulatory scrutiny in the U.S. and abroad, Twitter laid off members of its public policy team Wednesday night, Erin Woo of The Information reported. It was unclear how many people were affected, and anyone at Twitter answering questions from the media is long gone, ..
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Instagram’s Notes feature allows users to share posts containing text and emoji that will automatically disappear after 24 hours. Creators also have the option to delete Notes early, rather than allowing them to disappear naturally. Our guide will show you how to delete a note in the Instagram mobile application. Note: These screenshots were captured ..
Black-owned media and tech company Hero Media launched its own social platform, GoodFeed, catering its content toward women-identifying audiences. The platform launched in October to select users and was made publicly available this week. Similar to YouTube, users can create a channel to host editorial content like written articles, audio and videos. Chief executive officer ..
Twitter detailed a slight tweak to its $cashtags functionality, which lets users tweet the symbol for major cryptocurrencies, exchange-traded funds or stocks to generate a clickable link that brings up search results. The social network said in a Twitter Business tweet that those search results will now include pricing graphs for major symbols. Users can ..
Snapchat released three updates Wednesday for its $3.99-per-month Snapchat+ subscription option, which debuted in late June and topped 1 million paying subscribers in August. As initially discussed in October, a new Gifting feature enables subscribers to pay $39.99 and send a friend or loved one a 12-month subscription to Snapchat+. Snap Inc. Snapchat introduced more ..
Twitter once again tweaked its Community Notes crowdsourced fact-checking initiative, which was hatched as Birdwatch in January 2021. The company said in a tweet, “In September, we began requiring that new contributors unlock the ability to write notes by first making valuable ratings. This increased average note quality so much that, today, we are retroactively ..
Instagram launched a Notes feature that allows users to share posts containing only text and emojis that will only be visible for 24 hours. Each Note can contain up to 60 characters. Rather than being public content, Notes will be shared with the audience the creator selects and will appear at the top of each ..
TikTok is releasing a new feature aimed at providing clarity on why a specific video appeared in a user’s For You feed. Users can go to the share panel on a video in the For You feed and tap “Why this video,” which will bring up reasons why that particular piece of content was recommended ..
Building on its most recent official rollout of subscription service Twitter Blue, Twitter began a pilot test of Twitter Blue for Business with a select group of businesses. A square company badge will appear next to the display name of businesses in the pilot, and Oreo already had some fun with that design element. Individual ..
WhatsApp introduced an accidental delete feature on Android and iOS for cases when a user meant to delete messages from being seen by anyone on the application and mistakenly tapped on Delete for Me instead. People have five seconds to take advantage of accidental delete. The Delete for Everyone option debuted with a seven-minute window ..
