Articles tagged "Social networks"

Last week, we learned that WhatsApp was developing a feature to let users add people and group chats to lists. Now, we hear that WhatsApp is working on allowing users to filter chats through these...

Instagram is now letting you easily add text onto your photos. Not just that, but you can also add a picture on top of a picture as a sticker. This also applies to carousels. The company says...

WhatsApp has been working on a quick reaction feature for Status updates for the past few months, and it seems the feature's public rollout is closer since the Meta-owned platform has started testing...

WhatsApp introduced the Events feature for Communities in May and started rolling it for group chats for beta users on Android in June. Later, WhatsApp began testing Community announcement group...

Instagram has quietly upped its limit for carousel posts to 20 items. That means those “photo dump” posts on your feed will now include even more images and videos. This update doubles the previous...

X, formerly known as Twitter, has subscription plans. That much you may already know. But did you know that the top tier plan, called Premium+, used to still have ads? At $16 per month, no...

Last month, WhatsApp announced a feature called Events for the Communities and said that it would be rolled out for groups that are not a part of any community "over the coming months." While...

What posts you liked on X used to be publicly available information, which would sometimes get people in trouble, so now the social platform, previously known as Twitter, is starting to make that...

Today Instagram is introducing a way for you to limit interactions with anyone who isn't on your close friends list. This means you will only see comments, DMs, story replies, tags, and mentions from...

Back in July of last year, Elon Musk unveiled his plan to rebrand Twitter to X. This has been going on ever since, and today the final step is complete - the Twitter.com domain now redirects to...

TikTok is currently testing 60-minute video uploads, in its never ending quest to be more like YouTube. The feature is currently available to a limited group of users in "select markets", the company...

The US government approved the landmark national security package which was signed into law by President Joe Biden yesterday. The new regulation effectively gives TikTok parent company ByteDance an...

Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, announced on Threads that the company is expanding its mute filters to apply to more parts of the app than before. Called Hidden Words, the feature had so far...

In just one week, the United States legislative branch passed the national security package into law, including a bill that can potentially ban TikTok from the US. The bill passed the House of...

Last year, we learned that WhatsApp was developing a feature that would let users message unsaved contacts. While that feature is yet to be rolled out to everyone, the platform has now started...

After a swift vote in the House of Representatives earlier this week, the United States Senate has now passed the National Security Package which includes the controversial potential ban on TikTok in...

If you've always wanted to create long(er) form content on X (formerly Twitter), well, now you can. We're not sure why you'd want to do that on a platform like this that can take it down whenever it...

X (formerly Twitter) now supports voice and video calls on Android. The feature was already available for iOS users since October and is now coming to Android users. Just like on iOS, you’ll need an...

Samsung launched the AI-focused Galaxy S24 series yesterday and a lot of the presentation was taken up by camera features. Many of those features are now available directly through social networking...

WhatsApp introduced text formatting in 2016 and is now testing more formatting options for Android and iOS users enrolled in the beta program. WhatsApp beta users on Android and iOS can use '>' to...