Social media
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Snapchat is Now Up to 800 Million Monthly Active Users
After a not-so-great Q4 earnings report, which sent shares in the company tumbling yesterday, Snap has today revealed some good news, with its monthly active user count now up to 800 million, rising from the 750 million MAU that it reported in February last year. Well, it’s good in terms of overall figures, but there’s a lot to also be…
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Meta Expands Its Programs To Protect Teen Users From Sextortion
Meta has announced some new protection updates for Safer Internet Day, including the expansion of its “Take it Down” program, helping users stop the spread of their intimate images online, a new guide to help teens avoid “sextortion”, and new resource prompts to assist users in need. First off, Meta’s working with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children…
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Decentralized Social App ‘Bluesky’ Is Now Available to All Users
If you’ve been eagerly awaiting a chance to try out Bluesky, the decentralized version of Twitter, which was originally funded by Twitter itself, now you can, with the app moving out of invite-only beta today. As you can see from these example screens, Bluesky is pretty much Twitter, just with a butterfly silhouette as its logo, as opposed to a…
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Snapchat Adds More Users, Posts Lower Than Expected Revenue in Q4
It’s another mixed bag for Snap Inc. in its latest performance update, with the platform adding more users, though not in its most lucrative markets, while revenue also increased, though not at the levels expected. Thus is the theme of Snap’s performance, a yin-yang of strengths that are also weaknesses, in virtually every element. First off, on usage. Snapchat rose…
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LinkedIn Adds New Prompts to Boost Networking Opportunities
LinkedIn’s looking to make it easier to manage your professional interactions in the app, by splitting its “Network” tab into new, dedicated “Grow” and “Catch-Up” feeds, with the latter designed to highlight daily outreach opportunities, while it’s also adding new AI-powered message prompts to help improve your outreach. Which, as with various other AI tools on LinkedIn, could be problematic,…
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Facebook Tests Generative AI Prompts for Better Post Captions
Thanks, I hate it. That’s the first thought that came to my mind when I saw this new feature in testing on Facebook, which enables you to create a post caption via generative AI, in order to help you come up with better content. As you can see in this example, shared by Jonah Manzano, some Facebook users are now…
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Meta Expands its Programs to Protect Teen Users from ‘Sextortion’
Meta has announced some new protection updates for Safer Internet Day, including the expansion of its “Take it Down” program, helping users stop the spread of their intimate images online, a new guide to help teens avoid “sextortion”, and new resource prompts to assist users in need. First off, Meta’s working with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children…
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Snapchat Adds More Users, Posts Lower Than Expected Revenue in Q4
It’s another mixed bag for Snap Inc. in its latest performance update, with the platform adding more users, though not in its most lucrative markets, while revenue also increased, though not at the levels expected. Thus is the theme of Snap’s performance, a yin-yang of strengths that are also weaknesses, in virtually every element. First off, on usage. Snapchat rose…
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Decentralized Social App ‘Bluesky’ is Now Available to All Users
If you’ve been eagerly awaiting a chance to try out Bluesky, the decentralized version of Twitter, which was originally funded by Twitter itself, now you can, with the app moving out of invite-only beta today. As you can see from these example screens, Bluesky is pretty much Twitter, just with a butterfly silhouette as its logo, as opposed to a…
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TikTok’s Prompting Users to Download a New, Dedicated TikTok Search Shortcut
TikTok’s looking to get more people searching for more stuff in the app, with new prompts that look to get users to download a dedicated TikTok Search shortcut that can then be added to their device Home Screen. As you can see in this example, posted by Girl Power Marketing (and shared by Matt Navarra), the new TikTok Search shortcut…
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