Social Media

Instagram rolls out new Following Categories feature

Instagram has just introduced a new feature in its platform called Following Categories. This feature, by the photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, in the followings list of a profile allows users to see updates from the people they love...

Ryan Roslansky to take up charge from Jeff Weiner as CEO of LinkedIn

Jeff Weiner, who has been leading the company LinkedIn as a CEO for the past 11 years, will now be taking the seat of executive chairman of the company. Whereas, Ryan Roslansky, who is currently leading as head of the product, will step up...

Cristiano Ronaldo is world’s first person to hit 200 million Instagram followers

Cristiano Ronaldo (@cristiano) becomes the first human that hit a record number of 200 million followers on Instagram. The star footballer comes at second in Instagram accounts list as the first place is occupied by official Instagram (@instagram) account itself with 330 million...

Facebook and eBay following agreement to ban trading of fake reviews

Facebook and eBay knocked down hundreds of accounts, generating fake and misleading reviews, according to a report by Britains' Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). About six months ago, CMA identified "troubling evidence" for fake and misleading online reviews. After struggling from the past eight...

Facebook worker is fired for accepting bribes to restore banned accounts

A Facebook contractor has reportedly accepted thousands of dollars in bribes to reactivate banned accounts, according to an investigation by BuzzFeed News.  A marketing agency based in San Diego, Ads Inc., reportedly paid $5,000 initially and then $3,000 each month to a contractor in Austin office...

Top 5 tech news of the week

Here are the top five tech news by popularity of last week. Singapore tells Facebook to correct anti-government post on 29 Nov An online news publishing website State Time Review shared a post on their Facebook page mentioning about an arrest of a whistleblower by the Singapore...

TikTok suspends teen’s account for criticizing China

TikTok has suspended an account of a teenager Feroza (username: getmefamouspartthree), who posted a series of viral videos attacking China on Uighur Muslims. The videos start as eye-makeup tutorials, to avoid being moderated, but later persuade people and countries to raise voice against...

Elon Musk tweets new Cybertruck glass test video before Tesla event

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, shared a tweet showing Cybertruck glass test video with a steel ball thrown on it. In the twenty-second video, Franz von Holzhausen, the Chief Designer of Tesla is shown throwing the ball on the side window of the truck. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1198090787520598016 Tesla's all-electric...

Snapchat Time Machine AI makes you look younger or older

Snapchat has introduced a new filter showing your age evolution dubbed as Time Machine filter. Snapchat has introduced an attention-getting filter named "Time Machine" which allows users to witness their changed appearance by just gliding the screen. People want to know how they will look...

Instagram tests hiding like counts in some accounts

Instagram's CEO Adam Mosseri made an announcement at WIRED25 that the company will test hiding like counts in some U.S Instagram accounts. The company will start bringing these changes in limited accounts from next week. Instagram has already tested hiding like counts in...

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