Page 24 - Social Media Apps

Indian app Pixstory to take the centre stage in Arsenal-ManU game

On Sunday, NBA star and Pixstory brand ambassador Dwight Howard will kick off the proceedings with a pitch for a cleaner social media

Instagram overfocused on videos, reels last year, says Chief Mosseri

The head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, thinks that traditional photo posts suffered last year because of the platform's lopsided emphasis on videos and reels

Instagram users can now pause notifications by enabling 'Quiet mode'

Meta has introduced a new 'Quiet mode' on Instagram, which will allow users to pause notifications whenever they want to take a break from the social networking platform

WhatsApp working on feature to allow sending pictures in original quality

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will allow users to send photos in their original quality

Meta rolling out centralised account settings for Instagram, Facebook

Meta has announced that it is rolling out a new Accounts Center that will allow users to manage their Meta accounts, like Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, from a centralised hub

Twitter officially bans third-party applications with new developer rules

Micro-blogging platform Twitter has quietly updated its "Developer Agreement" to ban third-party clients, almost a week after it blocked the apps' access to its platform

Twitter Blue now costs $11 per month for Android users: Details here

Twitter Blue plan starts at $8/month or $84/year in available countries to get the blue checkmark in addition to early access to features

33% parents say strangers approached their children online: Study

According to the parents, of the children indicating cases of online solicitations and abuse 40 per cent were adolescent girls within 14-18 years

Twitter shifts 'View Count' tab to the right after repeated complaints

Twitter has announced to shift View Count tab to the right side on your timelines, after several annoyed users complained about it

Chat platform Discord acquires compliments-based social media app Gas

Chat platform Discord has announced that it is acquiring Gas, a poll-based social application that allows users to share compliments with one another

Instagram makes people depressed, Twitter makes people angry: Elon Musk

A follower posted that it is Microsoft-owned LinkedIn actually that makes people depressed, not Instagram. Musk replied with a fire sign

Twitter client Tweetbot faces outage again; several users hit briefly

Third-party Twitter tool Tweetbot is down again. The Twitter client briefly became available during an outage that prevented users from using major third-party Twitter clients

Twitter set to launch 'verification for organisations' feature: Know more

The company said that it will review applications and allow a limited set of organisations to use the feature

WhatsApp working on feature to switch btw camera, video mode on iOS beta

Currently, users have to tap and hold to record a video which is complicated when they have to record a long video, reports WABetaInfo

Twitter planning to sell inactive usernames through online auctions

In December, Musk said in a tweet that Twitter would soon start freeing up 1.5 billion usernames

Meta-owned Instagram to remove shopping tab from home feed in February

The Reels tab, which is currently present in the front and centre on the navigation bar, will replace the Shop tab

Twitter has a good chance of sliding slowly into irrelevance, like MySpace

Musk has little choice but to hurriedly monetize his new asset, unless he's to pay that debt out of his own pocket

TikTok users in US, UK can now tag movies, TV shows in short-form videos

Chinese short-form video-making app TikTok has partnered with IMDb to allow users to tag movies and TV shows in their videos in the US and the UK

Snap to shut down its camera application for desktop on January 25

The company announced the change on its support page for Snap Camera and said that the application will "no longer be available to use or download" later this month

TikTok adds new feature for users to find specific parts of videos

It seems that the video-scrubbing thumbnails are currently only available for newer uploads, as they are not appearing on older videos