Today, Jack Dorsey one of the original founders of Twitter has stepped down as the CEO of the company. This change has effectively come into effect as now and the CTO Parag Agrawal, has now replaced Dorsey. Dorsey founded Twitter around 15 years ago with Noah Glass, Biz Stone and Evan Williams and hsi reasoning for moving on was: “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is ready to […]
This week, Twitter has now finally started to add back link previews for Instagram. Now, like any other website when you share a link to an Instagram post on Twitter it displays a link and a thumbnail preview of that photo. Link previews for Instagram on Twitter used to work, however back in 2012 not long after Instagram become a thing those link previews went away and have been an issue since. […]
Facebook Inc, the company not the social network is being rebranded to Meta. The news was revealed by Zuckerberg during a keynote from the company’s Connect event. Facebook, the social network is still retaining the same name, along with its subsidiaries, WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. The Oculus brand will be retired in due course, instead taking on the Meta branding. The brand Facebook has bad connotations, its reputation has diminished […]
Telegram had some positive benefits from the six hour outage Facebook experienced earlier this week. The popular encrypted app supports cross device sync and other benefits, something WhatsApp doesn’t have yet, although they are working on cross device support. Telegram CEO said during the outage, his company saw around 70 million new users sign up, with little to no affect on the operations of the app for existing users. In […]
Facebook and its related sites, WhatsApp, Oculus and Instagram have been offline since around 5pm on Monday evening (UK time). Around six hours later, the social media network is back online again, after a global outage. The company hasn’t disclosed what the issue was yet, but Brian Krebs, a security reporter posted the following infomation on his website. To the huge community of people and businesses around the world who […]
Facebook is having some issues this evening, as its own website along with Instagram and WhatsApp, of which it owns are all offline. Facebook has said it is working on getting the issues resolved, but it hasn’t explained yet what the issue could be. Downdetector is showing reports in the tens of thousands, with 35,000 currently showing. Due to Facebook owning Oculus too, this issue is affecting the services from […]
TikTok has today revealed that it now has over 1 billion active monthly users. This amount of users is incredible, considering the platform only launched a couple years ago in August 2018. Since then, the network has had its share of proposed take downs, forces sales and then the US and other countries accusing the company, ByteDance who owns TikTok of dodgy data collection practices. However, the popularity of the […]
Twitter has recently introduced a new Communities feature, which has a similar feature set to Facebook Groups, which is very popular. Twitter has said that for now the new feature is invite only and it is due to be launched sometime in the future. Like Facebook Groups, Twitter Communities are forum like areas for people to go and discuss things they are mutually interested in, be it motorcycles, Apple or […]
Twitter announced this week that it now supporting account creation using an Apple ID or a Google account. New users can use their Apple ID to sign up on the web, iPadOS and iOS and then choose whether to give Twitter their real email address or hide it by using Apple’s relay service. However, Twitter does require that a date of birth is inputted. However, it seems that there are […]
Twitter has announced today that Fleets, it’s relatively new mode for ‘story like’ content that’s similar to offerings from Snapchat, WhatsApp, Facebook Instagram is going away in August. Twitter announced Fleets back in November last year, with some mixed reactions. Some users liked it, some didn’t and it seems that the people that didn’t have shown Twitter that they don’t with not using it, as Twitter has said it is […]
