Are you tired of meeting Tinder dates for the first time at hawker stalls instead of a fancy restaurant or at a nice cafe for drinks? Well, Malaysian influencer Sara Anna definitely is. Sara recently posted a mini-rant on her Instagram…
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Facebook, which has been under fire because of privacy concerns, said Thursday it built an internal app that allowed employees to identify their colleagues and friends who enabled facial recognitionby pointing their phone cameras at them.…
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In 2017, Twitter added support for using code generating applications for two-factor authentication. But up until now, users were still required to add a phone number to their Twitter account as a fall back method of authentication.…
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Twitter is experimenting with a feature that lets users schedule Tweets natively on Twitter.com. The company has not confirmed how widespread the test is at this point. The test was confirmed by Twitter’s standalone app TweetDeck, which…
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Twitter’s radical “Hide Replies” feature, one of the biggest changes to how Twitter works since the invention of the Retweet, is now available to Twitter’s global user base. The company says the feature will roll out to all Twitter users…
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Most avid Twitter users would be across TweetDeck at this stage – a dedicated app that allows for finer control of the social media platform but now, one of its flagship features may be making its way to the regular Twitter web app. The…
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As technology’s role in our lives continues to grow, social media platforms have had to navigate the numerous problems that can arise from this interconnectivity. One issue that Facebook faces on a daily basis is the fight against revenge…
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A stalker-friendly app called Ghosty that allows users to view private Instagram accounts has been instructed by the Facebook-owned company to halt all its operations. Using crowdsourced data, several private profiles could be viewed using…
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SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook yesterday said it is consolidating the system that handles payments at the social network and in its family of messaging apps. The move comes in a climate of political rhetoric that includes calling for the…
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Facebook’s Transparency Report 2019 is out which states Pakistan has sent the highest number of content restriction requests to the leading social media platform. As per the report, Facebook blocked 5,690 pages, posts, and other content on…
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Facebook removed more than 200 white supremacist organizations from its platform for violating both terrorism and hate speech community standards, a Facebook representative told Digital Trends, as part of a broader crackdown on harmful…
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This week, Facebook published the fourth edition of its Community Standards Enforcement Report. It shows that the amount of content violating policies as well as the number of fake accounts created on the social network is only escalating.…
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Instagram, which has been running a test to hide like counts on posts in seven different countries, announced today that it is expanding the test globally. This follows an announcement last week that the test would be expanding to the US…
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Facebook’s latest transparency report is out. The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased by 16% to 128,617 demands during the first-half of this year compared to the second-half of last year.…
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Facebook is copycatting features from its most worrisome competitor again. Facebook-owned Instagram is now rolling out a version of virtual karaoke much like TikTok. Called Reels, the feature is launching today in Brazil, where Instagram…
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Facebook has faced a barrage of concern over an apparent bug that resulted in the social media giant’s iPhone app exposing the camera as users scroll through their feed. A tweet over the weekend blew up after Joshua Maddux tweeted a screen…
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Facebook said on Tuesday it was launching Facebook Pay, a unified payment service through which users across its platforms including WhatsApp and Instagram can make payments without exiting the app. The social network said the service…
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After going through tests for the last few months, Twitter is now expanding the feature to allow more users to follow specific topics. Essentially, users can follow topics or interests on the platform that are being discussed rather than…
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A Dutch court has ruled that Facebook can be required to use filter technologies to identify and pre-emptively take down fake ads linked to crypto currency scams that carry the image of a media personality, John de Mol, and other well…
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Instagram will pay for celebrities’ video production for IGTV, but its contract stipulates the performers “must not include content about social issues, elections, or politics,” according to Bloomberg News. IGTV is Instagram’s answer to…
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Apple has removed the app Like Patrol from its App Store, several days after Instagram sent a cease-and-desist letter to the developers for violating its policies against data collection. The app encouraged spying on loved ones and keeping…
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Instagram continues to tweak its user experience, recently making changes such as removing the following tab and promoting the new version of the explore tab in its place. Now, the company has begun testing out one of its most…
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What happens when you mix VSCO film-inspired presets with Snapchat’s augmented reality lenses? AR film effects like light leaks and flares. On Friday, November 8, VSCO announced the popular editing app’s first Snapchat lens, created in a…
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Leaked documents from a lawsuit filed by a now-defunct startup Six4Three on Facebook shows some 700 pages revealing how Facebook leveraged user data against rivals and offered it up as a sop to friends.NBC News reported how Facebook’s…
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The allegations of spying by former Twitter employees for Saudi Arabia underscore the risks for Silicon Valley firms holding sensitive data which make the platforms ripe for espionage. The two Saudis and one US citizen allegedly worked…
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