This category basically focusses on happening in the social media – from the heavyweight like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Path and others.
Twitter has announced the rollout of voice tweet feature to device using the iOS version of the app. The company announced via its official blog that it has commenced testing this feature with a handful of Twitter for iOS users and will eventually extend availability to other iOS users in the coming weeks. Read More: […]
Facebook Inc has announced the acquisition of GIPHY and merged the visual expression and creation team as part of popular photo and video-sharing networking service, Instagram. Both Facebook and GIPHY made separate official announcements, however, both teams did not discuss the financial terms of acquisition. The folks at American news website, Axios value the deal […]
Social media giant, Facebook recently unveiled two new video calling devices – Portal and Portal+. The duo are already available for pre-order in the US from Facebook at Portal.Facebook.com as well as Amazon and Best Buy. Shipping is scheduled to commence in November. Priced starting at US$ 199, the Facebook Portal has a 10-inch display […]
Instagram recently unveiled IGTV (Instagram TV), it’s new long-form video content platform for creators at a launch event in San Francisco last Thursday. The feature, which is available within the main app and as a standalone app, allows users upload videos up to a maximum of 60 minutes (1 hour). Videos uploaded on IGTV are […]
Long known for their clear and concise form of messaging, Tweets are about to get super longer thanks to the new 280-character limit feature currently being tested by Twitter. The company notes that the new limit is currently available to a small few and not available in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. We want every person […]
Twitter has rolled out a major update across all its platforms – Twitter.com, Twitter for Android, Twitter for iOS, TweetDeck and Twitter Lite, which will arrive over the coming days and weeks. The new Twitter Design, according to the company, came about as a result of user feedback and ideas. With the new update, Twitter […]
On the back of the news that Facebook Lite now has over 200 million user and Instagram adding Offline mode for Android; Facebook has announced it is expanding the Messenger Lite app for Android to 100 more countries including Nigeria, Italy, Germany, Colombia, Vietnam, Algeria, Morocco, Peru, Turkey, Japan, Taiwan and the Netherlands. Basically offering […]
Following the footstep of Facebook (Facebook Lite and Messenger Lite), Twitter has launched a Lite model of its micro blogging social network. Twitter Lite (about 1MB in size) will be accessible on mobile devices via the web in emerging markets across Asia Pacific, Latin America and Africa. According to official blog release, Twitter Lite (https://lite.twitter.com/) […]
Twitter’s egg default profile picture, has over the year, become an integral part of the experience and a large number of people can relate. But as they say, all good things come to an end. The micro-blogging website has announced plans to do away with this iconic egg avatar for something more gender-balanced to help […]
In a bid to lure more people from Snapchat, especially teenagers; Facebook has over the months been aggressively duplicating features a la Snapchat. The company made its intentions obvious with the launch of Instagram Stories and this features has been extended to Whatsapp, Messenger and now Facebook. The social media giant added Facebook Stories as […]