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Twitter may face a $250mn FTC fine for alleged misuse of user data

Twitter last month suffered its biggest data breach when three young individuals (including one juvenile) compromised the accounts of 130 high-profile celebrities, politicians and businesses

ByteDance investors value TikTok at about $50 billion in takeover bid

ByteDance was valued at as much as $140 billion earlier this year when one of its shareholders

Instagram starts testing TikTok competitor feature Reels in India

Reels offers a new way to create and share short videos on Instagram, says Facebook.

Instagram rolls out pinned comments feature to all for user engagement

Photo-sharing app Instagram has rolled out the pinned comment feature to help users maximise their engagement with their friends and family members

Instagram rolls out 'pinned comment' feature for everyone: Details here

The new feature will help users to pin on the top important or favourite comments on their posts

TikTok's alternative Chingari crosses 10 mn downloads on Google Play Store

Social app Chingari, a desi alternative to Chinese TikTok, on Friday said it has crossed 10 million downloads on Google Play Store and content creators are making a beeline to join the app.

Top headlines: Modi quits Chinese social media, GVK chairman booked & more

From Chinese tech firms moving writ petitions, GST collection improving in June to PM Modi quitting Chinese social media, here are the top headlines of the day

PM Narendra Modi quits Chinese social media Weibo as India bans 59 apps

The account was launched amid much fanfare in 2015 prior to his first China visit as PM.

Indian social app Chingari on fire, logs over 3 million downloads

Indians have rushed to download social app Chingari, a desi alternative to Chinese TikTok, which is witnessing nearly 100,000 downloads and over 2 million views per hour

These techies built a social media start-up from their college hostel room

A day after Mahindra Group chairman Anand Mahindra committed an investment of $1 mn in social media start-up Hapramp, its creative social media app GoSocial saw unprecedented traffic due to which the

'Boycott Chinese apps' campaign heats up, may have little economic impact

Apart from the boycott campaign, Indian intelligence agencies have red-flagged usage of over 50 China-linked apps as being a threat to national security.

Twitter for iOS gets 'Voice Tweet' feature: How to add voice notes to tweet

The feature is currently available to a limited group of people on Twitter for iOS platform, and it will be available for everyone on iOS in the coming weeks

Twitter Fleets: What is it, how it works and who all shall get it

Fleets is a quick way to express thoughts using multimedia or just simple text

Twitter launches test feature 'fleets' in India for tweets that disappear

Followers will be able to see a person's fleets at the top of their home page. People can see who's seen their fleet by looking underneath a post

TikTok's rating improves amid growing criticism over 'violent content'

While the TikTok rating has improved, the app continues to face criticism for the content that appears on its platform

Facebook launches 'Collab' music-making app to take on TikTok: Details here

Named Collab, the app is currently available for iOS devices and requires invite to download

Twitter brings 'retweet with comments' to Android, web platform: Know more

The micro-blogging platform on May 12 had rolled out this feature on Twitter for iOS

Soon, Twitter might let you choose who replies to your tweets: Details here

The feature is currently being tested only with a limited group of people globally on Twitter for iOS, Android, and twitter.com

TikTok ban: Short-video app's popularity dips amid growing call for ban

TikTok's app rating on Google Play Store reduced to 1.3 stars on May 20 from more than 4.5 stars only a few days earlier

The making of super apps: Where does India stand after Facebook-Jio deal?

While most of the Super-Apps owes their origin to messaging, the success factor however has been the 'payments' feature which helps them to monetise faster