Social Media
03 Mar 2021
Twitter's Clubhouse copy Spaces is now available on Android. With that, the microblogging platform has brought the novel audio-based take on social media interaction to non-Apple users. The feature was restricted to iOS until now, just like Clubhouse.
26 Feb 2021
Twitter announced significant new features dealing with user monetization and community-focused content.
25 Feb 2021
Facebook banned pages belonging to the YPG (translated: People's Protection Units) at the behest of Turkey, according to a latest exposé by ProPublica.
25 Feb 2021
The Centre on Thursday released a set of new guidelines to regulate digital content.
25 Feb 2021
The Australian news media code has caused great upheaval in the social media space. After Facebook's recent shutdown of news feed in the country and quick reversal, the social media giant has pledged to invest $1 billion to "support the news industry".
24 Feb 2021
The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) has issued a set of draft guidelines that directs influencers to prominently label content that promotes products and services on social media.
23 Feb 2021
Facebook has walked back the uncompromising and abrupt total ban it had imposed on sharing Australian news sites. The bold move had blocked Facebook's Australian users from viewing and sharing news.
22 Feb 2021
After getting rid of former US President Donald Trump, Facebook has turned its ban hammer on foreign governments. Its latest victim is the Myanmar military establishment, which has joined Trump in Facebook jail.
21 Feb 2021
Clubhouse is an audio-based social networking app that allows people to participate in discussions on diverse topics of interest. They can also listen in on conversations between eminent individuals in real time by joining chat rooms.
18 Feb 2021
Facebook has chosen to play hardball with Australian authorities by refusing to buckle under the pressure of implementing the country's contentious news media code. The social media platform has blocked its Australian users from viewing and sharing news.
17 Feb 2021
Twitter has started rolling out the voice-based direct messages (DMs) for select users in India. This allows users to send voice messages as DMs, with the length being capped at 140 seconds, just like the original character limit.
13 Feb 2021
Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has reached yet another milestone by becoming the first person ever to have 500 million followers across social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
12 Feb 2021
As it remains locked in an intense face-off with Twitter, the Indian government has prepared draft rules to regulate social media, OTT (Over The Top) platforms, as well as news-related websites.
16 Jan 2021
Brian Littrell, one part of the most popular pop boy band of the '90s, Backstreet Boys, has earned himself a controversy.
14 Dec 2020
Researchers have confirmed what many of us anticipated — the fear of missing out (or FOMO in colloquial language) after seeing social media posts of others is real. It is prominent to the extent that it adversely affects your job performance.
10 Oct 2020
In the run-up to the US Presidential election on November 3, social media giants are doubling down to prevent abuse of their platforms.
06 Oct 2020
Instagram, the popular photo-sharing platform under the umbrella of Facebook, has turned 10 years old.
27 Sep 2020
The latest trend to fascinate the netizens is the Couple Challenge, wherein people are participating to celebrate their relationships online through various social media platforms.
20 Sep 2020
How do you start talking about an invisible force that drives you from morning to night without you knowing?
17 Sep 2020
The indisputable Queen of Pop, Madonna, is making and co-writing her biopic.
17 Sep 2020
The central government is reportedly keeping a close eye on thousands of social media accounts that are allegedly spreading Chinese propaganda.
16 Sep 2020
These are the times when Chris Evans probably wished his fans stayed less active online.
15 Sep 2020
Celebrity author JK Rowling has got embroiled in another controversy, this time surrounding the content of one of her latest books.
15 Sep 2020
In a bid to help make planet Earth a greener and less polluted place to live, Facebook has announced a new 'Climate Science Information Center' for its main app.
10 Sep 2020
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world die by suicide.
22 Aug 2020
As many as 235 million users of leading video services TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube have been hit by a data leak.
16 Aug 2020
As TikTok struggles to hold its ground in global markets, Facebook is going a full-on assault mode to take its place.
14 Aug 2020
Despite doing a good job at distancing itself from Facebook and its privacy-related debacles, Instagram keeps running into occasional minor issues.
12 Aug 2020
In an unexpected move, social media giant Facebook is sunsetting the Lite version of its main mobile application.
12 Aug 2020
Parwinder Singh aka "ProSingh" is a social media influencer, writer, and businessman.
01 Aug 2020
Back in the 90s, surfing the web was all about websites with flashy texts, GIFs, and images.
29 Jul 2020
From small businesses to multi-billion-dollar conglomerates, almost every organization today relies on digital marketing at some level.
23 Jul 2020
Last week's massive Twitter hack left more than 100 high-profile accounts, including those of business magnates like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk, compromised.
30 Jun 2020
Microsoft has suspended all advertising on Facebook and Instagram at least until August.
30 Jun 2020
As Facebook continues to reel from a massive advertisers' protest against its mishandling of racism, violence, and hate speech, Reddit, which has long been criticized over these issues, has started taking corrective measures.
29 Jun 2020
Facebook is heavily reliant on a revenue model where it shows personalized ads from brands and generates money from the businesses for providing ad space and the resulting traction.
26 Jun 2020
Credibility and timeliness are the two most important aspects of online news consumption; they define what people perceive of different matters, events.
24 Jun 2020
Just 10 days back, WhatsApp had launched its much-coveted payments service in Brazil, its second-biggest market after India, and opened a way to send and receive money on chat.
19 Jun 2020
Continuing its stringent content moderation practices, Twitter has fact-checked a video tweeted by US President Donald Trump and labeled the same as 'manipulated media'.
19 Jun 2020
A day ago, Twitter announced audio tweets as a way to let users share their personal thoughts and experiences in their own voice.
