Monday, July 5, 2021

YouTube enables creators to access sounds from videos to create Shorts

Since YouTube has been under pressure lately with its much compatible rival TikTok rising to the top in a jiffy, it has been taking some measures. While those measures might not include improving the platform to attract more users, it includes trying to "copy" the rising platform. Of course, these...

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Sunday, July 4, 2021

WhatsApp steps in the transfer problems of iPhone to Android devices

The age-long war between Android and iPhone has plagued social media platforms forever and resulted in one of the most competitive industries across all. In the modern world, these two smartphone operating systems are imperative for every tech firm that intends to initiate an application for the...

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Instagram is offering a $20 discount to some users when they shop on the platform

According to a recent tweet by Matt Navarra and Devon West, Instagram is now handing out bonus money to encourage users to shop. Instagram introduced shops back in 2020 as businesses faced severe complications due to the global pandemic. The shops were a source of happiness and served as...

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Twitter Reportedly Becomes The First Major Online Platform To Display Compatibility With Google's FLoC

Twitter is probably among one of the first platforms to support Google FLoC, a move that won't exactly endear the social media app towards its users or the general public. Twitter is working on collecting FLoC from users FLoC is a web tracking tech created by Google that groups people into...

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Facebook Is Introducing Threads To Posts On Its Platform

Facebook has recently been testing a new feature, by the name of "Threads", allowing users to link relevant posts together while having them share the same core audience. If you're at all familiar with social media and the internet, you've encountered conversation threads. They're a medium most...

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Through the “Trusted Friend” feature of Twitter, users will be able to restrict the tweets (just like Instagram) to the specific group of close friends

Twitter wants to provide a secure environment to its users where their privacy is maintained. Therefore, the platform has given the option to its users to manage who can see their tweet by testing a new idea of restricting the tweets to a trusted group of friends only, so in this way, people will...

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YouTube UI engineers are working on a new video description format with the comments as the highlight

Ever since we've been little kids, we have seen the same YouTube layout with little to no changes. The layout is simple, precise, and suits everyone. But Google recently decided that the format needs an uncalled-for change. We get the platform is trying to improve but did we ask for it? YouTube is...

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