News Facebook Has over 3 Billion Monthly Active Users Macro Strategist: James Sterling Despite facing a decline in popularity among younger users, Facebook continues to show growth in daily active users, with 2.064 billion people engaging with the platform daily, up from 2.037 billion in the previous quarter.
News Meta Introduces Real-Time Avatar Calls on Instagram and Messenger Macro Strategist: James Sterling The new avatar calling feature is similar to Apple's FaceTime Memoji, where avatars mimic users' facial expressions and articulations. Users can even swap their own avatar with animated stickers of animals like cats, dogs, owls, llamas, and more.
News Meta Launches a Digital Clothing Store for Virtual Avatars Macro Strategist: James Sterling Virtual clothes will be much cheaper than the real designer clothes of the mentioned brands. In the future, the number of brands for the meta-universe is expected to grow. There will still be free clothing options for virtual avatars.
News Meta Adds New "Calls" Tab to Its Messenger App on iOS and Android Macro Strategist: James Sterling Meta is launching a new "Calls" tab in its Messenger app for iOS and Android users. The new tab will track every call you make or receive in the app in one place, making it easy to connect calls with one tap.
News Facebook Messenger Will Have End-to-End Encrypted Calls Macro Strategist: James Sterling Facebook has introduced end-to-end encryption for Messenger calls in light of the growing interest in voice and video calls over the past year. The new feature will help position the company's service as more private and secure.
News WhatsApp Will Limit the Functionality of Some Users on May 15 Macro Strategist: James Sterling WhatsApp reminded users that new rules for using the messenger will come into force on May 15, as well as told users what will happen to the accounts of those who do not accept the changes.
News Telegram Soon May Add New Payment Features Macro Strategist: James Sterling In the next Telegram update, it may become possible to sell goods and services in channels and groups, not only with bots' help.
News WhatsApp's New Privacy Policy Might Be Illegal Macro Strategist: James Sterling WhatsApp's new privacy policy may be illegal, but representatives of WhatsApp still assure its users that the update will not affect the users' correspondence in any way, and it will still be encrypted.
News Telegram Update Allows to Import Chat History From WhatsApp Macro Strategist: James Sterling Telegram introduced the ability to import chat history from other apps, including WhatsApp, Line, and KakaoTalk.
News Why It Won’t Be Caught Up? Telegram Creator Told Why the Messenger Can’t Be Blocked Macro Strategist: James Sterling Amazon and other companies won’t be able to block Telegram.
News New Year's Eve Activity Breaks Facebook Services Records Macro Strategist: James Sterling On New Year's Eve, all Facebook services broke traffic records. The WhatsApp and Messenger experienced a record load, and the Instagram Live and Facebook Live functions were torn apart from the traffic.
