With concerns around the spread of novel coronavirus rising, Facebook is now taking action against profiteering advertisers that have been seeking to capitalize on such concerns. As reported by Business Insider, Facebook has this week announced a ban on ads on its platforms which mention coronavirus in relation to cures or prevention, or those which attempt to “create…
Struggling to find the perfect GIF, using the perfect celebrity, to express the right emotion in your tweet? This could help – this week Google Trends has teamed up with GIF platform Tenor to create a new tool that highlights key GIF trends by celebrity, action, the emotion conveyed and more. As you can see here, based on…
Amid ongoing concerns around the coronavirus outbreak, Facebook has this week announced that it’s canceling the ‘in-person component’ of its annual F8 developer conference, which was planned to be held in San Jose on May 5th and 6th. As explained by Facebook: “Every year, we look forward to connecting with our global developer community at F8 and sharing our vision…
I could almost hear the circuit grids of a million keyboards cracking as Twitter users responded to this gleeful new update of adding new tweets into old tweet threads. Now you can add Tweets to one you already Tweeted, faster! So, that seems pretty cool, pretty helpful. I mean, it’s not an amazing, groundbreaking update that…
Every time Facebook tries out another Facebook Stories addition, a part of me does feel like its a bit Regina George. But Facebook is certain that Stories are the future of social sharing, and the way more users are heading – and it has the stats to prove that more people are, in fact, using Facebook Stories every…
After recently launching tags to signify manipulated media in tweets, Twitter is now also considering new labels for identified misinformation, with large tags on ‘harmfully misleading’ reports, and links to reference material to cross-check. As explained by NBC News: “In this version, misinformation or misleading information posted by public figures would be corrected directly beneath a tweet…
In its early years, like many other social platforms, the Twitter algorithm presented content in a reverse chronological order that showed the freshest content first. As the user base and feature set of Twitter and these other social platforms grow, there’s too much content to keep up within a simple chronological order. That’s where the…
Snapchat is testing out a major new redesign which would expand the app from three to five definitively separated sections, and add a black navigation bar along the bottom of the screen. As reported by Casey Newton in The Interface, and as you can see in the above images, the new navigation bar would link to five sections. The…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees privacy-focused communications as the future of social networking, with messaging playing a key role – and WhatsApp, Facebook’s largest messaging platform, is central to that shift as WhatsApp celebrates two billion active users. And this week, the significance of WhatsApp has been underlined once again, with the messaging app reaching a new user…
If you go to tap on your favorite Google Chrome extension and it no longer works like it used to, it could be among the over 500 Chrome extensions removed by Google. This week, over 500 Chrome extensions removed by Google were listed due to concerns that they were redirecting users to malicious sites and…