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Threads Adds Option to Rearrange Columns on Desktop
Here’s a simple, but handy update for Threads users on desktop. Today, Threads has added the ability to rearrange the columns for your desktop Threads display. Threads launched the new column display on desktop back in May, which is very similar to the TweetDeck or Hootsuite format, enabling you to monitor separate streams based on keywords, topics, people, and more,…
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Snapchat Reawakens Retro Trends With Latest Update
Snapchat has added some new features, which are actually fairly retro-style, harking back to older trends. First off, Snapchat’s trying to reignite interest in Bitstrips, the originating format of Bitmoji, which, at one stage, was huge on Facebook. As per Snap: “Our community has long loved Bitmoji Stories as a way to stay connected with fun, comic-strip style stories. Now,…
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Snapchat Adds New Safety Resources for Educators
With kids heading back to school, Snapchat has announced some new resources to help teachers both understand the platform, and to raise awareness of concerns directly, helping to ensure young users are safe in the app. Snapchat remains one of the most popular messaging platforms among teens, with its disappearing messages adding assurance that their updates won’t be held against…
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Instagram Adds Stories Comments To Encourage Interaction
Instagram’s rolling out another way to encourage more interaction, this time via comments on Stories, which are then visible to all who view that Story content. As you can see in this example sequence, shared by Taylor Loren, some IG users are now being notified of a new Stories commenting option. As per the notification: “You can now comment on…
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YouTube Expands AI Comment Summaries to More Languages
YouTube’s expanding its comment topics feature, which uses AI to sort video comments into categories, to more languages. As you can see in this example, YouTube’s comment topics, which it first launched in November last year, filters video comments into separate categories for easier sorting. When you tap through on the “Comments” section on videos where this is enabled, you’re…
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Threads Takes Next Steps Towards Fediverse Integration
Threads is taking its next steps into fediverse sharing this week, with likes and replies from people on other servers to be made available on Threads. A core element of Meta’s Threads experiment, the Threads team has been working to facilitate fediverse sharing, which essentially means that any platform using the ActivityPub protocol will be able to host and integrate…
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X Could Be Banned in Brazil This Week
It looks like X is headed for a ban in Brazil, with Brazilian Minister for the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes issuing a new warning to the company over its failure to comply with its recent orders. Back in April, the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered X to comply with government orders to suppress certain accounts which Brazilian leadership determined to…
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X Could Be Banned in Brazil This Week
It looks like X is headed for a ban in Brazil, with Brazilian Minister for the Supreme Court Alexandre de Moraes issuing a new warning to the company over its failure to comply with its recent orders. Back in April, the Brazilian Supreme Court ordered X to comply with government orders to suppress certain accounts which Brazilian leadership determined to…
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Instagram Adds Stories Comments to Encourage Interaction
Instagram’s rolling out another way to encourage more interaction, this time via comments on Stories, which are then visible to all who view that Story content. As you can see in this example sequence, shared by Taylor Loren, some IG users are now being notified of a new Stories commenting option. As per the notification: “You can now comment on…
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Threads Takes Next Steps Towards Fediverse Integration
Threads is taking its next steps into fediverse sharing this week, with likes and replies from people on other servers to be made available on Threads. A core element of Meta’s Threads experiment, the Threads team has been working to facilitate fediverse sharing, which essentially means that any platform using the ActivityPub protocol will be able to host and integrate…
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