Are we close to saying goodbye to TikTok? On Friday evening, speaking to the press pool, US President Donald Trump said that TikTok would soon be banned in the US, sparking an outpouring of emotional responses from the app’s users, and a major surge in downloads of alternate video apps. The speculation prompted a response from…
That’s pretty much what Facebook has created – in order to more accurately test for security vulnerabilities and potentially harmful actions, Facebook has developed a new system called WES (Web-Enabled Simulation) which uses bots modeled on human behavior to replicate usage patterns. This feels… concerning. Robots have their own social network now? As per Facebook: “Bots are trained…
Amid rising speculation about the future of the app, with authorities in several regions calling for potential restrictions due to its links with the Chinese Government, TikTok is looking to deepen its economic roots, in order to make it harder to justify removing it from circulation. Earlier this week, TikTok announced that it plans to hire 10,000 staff in…
Twitter has released its latest performance update, showing a significant increase in users in Q2, along with a largely anticipated reduction in ad spend. Twitter’s lower revenue results, given the pandemic, are largely in line with expectation, but the growth in users should better place the company moving forward. Here are the key highlights. First off,…
As reports suggest, this year, people are spending more time than ever using their mobile devices, using various popular apps. But how much time, exactly, are people spending on their phones and which apps are seeing the most attention? That’s where the latest report from app analytics firm App Annie comes in. App Annie has this week…
Coming up with good quality content, consistently, is a difficult task. You have to create something that reads, looks, and sells well – but waits, as they say in infomercials, ‘that’s not all’. A huge part of a webpage’s success in the long term is also about which search queries the content ranks for, and…
While the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, and it may feel like the end is constantly over the horizon, and beyond our line of sight, at some stage, it will end. Vaccines and treatments will be developed and implemented; cities and sporting venues will re-open. It may take longer than anyone would have hoped, but things…
This is the core question at the heart of calls to ban rising video app TikTok, which has come under increased scrutiny in several regions over its ties to the Chinese regime. To be clear, TikTok’s Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance is indeed beholden, under China’s cybersecurity laws, to share its data with the CCP, if so…
After rolling out a new way to display a full listing of both ‘Retweets’ and ‘Retweets with Comments’ back in May, Twitter now looks to be testing another new variation, which would list ‘Retweets’ and ‘Quotes’ – or ‘Retweets with Comment’ – in their own separate sections. As you can see in this example, posted by reverse engineering…
Facebook’s experimental NPE team has released its tenth new app, this time with an early-internet inspired collage board tool called E.gg. As you can see here, E.gg enables users to create what it calls ‘canvases’: “Free-form mixed media collages/pages that let you express anything from your favorite films/albums/novels to a collage of succulent pics to, say, an about page for an…