News Twitter Blue Subscribers Can Now Upload Two-Hour Videos Twitter Blue subscribers, who now pay $8/month for it, are allowed to upload videos up to two hours at 1080p resolution that must have an 8GB file size or smaller. Also, longer two-hour videos can only be uploaded from the web or iOS.
BigTech Meta Ends Support for NFTs on Instagram and Facebook A company spokesperson said that Meta is shifting its investments away from NFTs to products such as Meta Pay, as well as other tools that allow creators to earn money directly on Meta's platforms.
BigTech YouTube Will No Longer Run Overlay Ads on Desktop Starting April 6 YouTube will no longer display overlay ads atop videos that users are watching on the desktop app and web browsers, the company announced in a YouTube Help forum post. This ad format has long been unavailable on mobile devices, too.
BigTech Meta Is Testing a Paid Verification Scheme on Facebook and Instagram To sign up to become Meta Verified, users must be 18 or older and provide an official government-issued ID that matches the profile name and photo they have on Facebook or Instagram.
News Instagram Debuts Notes, Tests Group Profiles and Candid Stories Instagram is launching and testing new features designed to connect its users with the people and groups they care about and encourage interactions between friends on the app through Notes, Group Profiles, and Candid Stories.
News Kanye West to Buy Controversial Social Media App Parler Parler was created in 2018 as an alternative to Twitter, but with a "softer" post moderation policy that appealed to the American right and Trump supporters often blocked on other major social media platforms.
News Twitter Is Rolling Out Its Edit Button for Twitter Blue Subscribers From now on, these users can edit the content of a tweet after it has been published, which means that they will no longer have to delete and publish the tweet again in case they make a mistake or a typo.
News TikTok Users Can Now Downvote Comments After testing it for several months, TikTok has officially introduced the new downvote button that will let users easily flag irrelevant or inappropriate comments.
News YouTube to Launch an Ad-Free Video Player for Education It was created specifically for educational organizations that often use YouTube as a platform for learning. Educational institutions will now be able to embed videos on websites without distracting students from the online learning experience.
News Snapchat Will Let Parents See Who Their Children Are Messaging Parents and guardians will be able to view their kid’s friend list as well as a list of accounts they interacted with over the past week. They will also be able to report concerning accounts to the Trust and Safety Team of Snap.
News Twitter Is Bringing Podcasts to Its Platform Twitter internal research shows that 45% of the platform's US users listen to podcasts every month, so it's worth recommending audio content to them. Listeners will now have access to a more personalized selection of audio content.
News YouTube to Launch an Online Store for Streaming Video Services YouTube is preparing to launch an online store where users will be able to buy paid subscriptions to other streaming video services. YouTube's management is currently in talks with several entertainment companies.
News Instagram to Nudge Teens Away from Content They Dwell On Instagram announced that the platform would start nudging teens to encourage them to switch to a different topic if they have been browsing the same type of content on Explore page for a long time.
News Twitter Is Rolling out the Unmentioning Feature to All Users To unmention yourself from the conversations you no longer want to be a part of, you need to select the tweet you're tagged in and tap the three dots at the top-right corner of the screen. You should then choose the Leave this conversation option.
News Twitter and Elon Musk Will Go to Trial over the $44 Billion Deal in October Musk and Twitter are preparing for a lawsuit after the billionaire refused to buy the company. The lawsuit states that Musk refuses to honor the agreement because the deal has ceased to interest him personally. A trial in the case is set for October.
News Elon Musk Is Backing Out of the $44 Billion Deal to Buy Twitter The entrepreneur previously said he was holding off on a deal to buy Twitter until the company could prove that spam bots and fake accounts represented no more than 5% of the social network's daily active users.
News Snap Announces Paid Subscription Plan Called Snapchat+ It is reported that with Snapchat+, users will be able to customize the app's icon, see who rewatched their story, and pin one of their friends to the top of the chat history as a “BFF.” However, the new subscription will not feature disabled ads.
News Twitter Is Testing Its Notes Feature for Long-Form Posts In the timeline, notes will look like a link preview that you click on to read the entire note. Like tweets, notes will have their own link and can be tweeted, retweeted, sent to private messages, liked, and added to favorites.
News TikTok Launches Its Own Memoji-Like Digital Avatars To use the feature, you should open the app, switch your camera to selfie mode, open the effects section and select the Avatar effect. You can then either use the preset avatar or tap "new" to create your own avatar.
News Meta Launches a Digital Clothing Store for Virtual Avatars 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 YouTube Shorts Hits 1.5 Billion Monthly Users Two years after its launch, the service within YouTube has an audience comparable to that of its Chinese rival TikTok, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing a report from Google.
News Instagram Now Lets You Pin Three Posts or Reels to Your Profile Instagram announced that its users can now pin up to three posts or Reels at the top of their profiles. Just like pinned posts on Twitter or TikTok, such posts will appear at the top of the Instagram grid as if you had recently posted them.
News Meta Adds New "Calls" Tab to Its Messenger App on iOS and Android 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 Instagram Rolls Out a New Typeface and Redesigned Logo To make the gradient in its logo "illuminated and alive," the platform updated it using an "innovative 3D modeling process." Consisting of Instagram's brand color, the iconic gradient is the foundation of the company's color system.
News Twitter Introduces Exclusive Spaces for Super Followers Until now, Super Followers had only one advantage over regular Twitter users – they had access to exclusive tweets of the creators they followed. Now Super Followers will also have a dedicated place only they can attend.
