News Twitter Subscription Service May Be Called Twitter Blue and Cost $2.99 a Month According to a leak by Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter's premium subscription has been dubbed Twitter Blue, and it will cost $2.99 per month. Twitter Blue users will be able to cancel sending a tweet within 30 seconds as well as create collections of posts they like.
News TikTok Started Testing In-App Shopping Features The reports state that TikTok is already working with sellers in Europe as well as in the United Kingdom, providing tools that will let them sell their goods to millions of users directly on the social media platform.
News Twitter Introduces Tip Jar to Let Users Send and Receive Tips So far, only English-speaking users of iOS and Android operating systems can send donations, whereas a limited number of "creators, journalists, experts, and nonprofits" will be able to accept money.
News Instagram Will Let Its Users Filter Out Offensive DMs Instagram will let its users filter private messages with offensive words, phrases or emojis. The new feature can be turned on in a dedicated section of the privacy settings called Hidden Words.
News Twitter Is Adding a COVID-19 Vaccine Prompt to Users' Timelines Popular social media platform Twitter has come up with a new feature, a fact box about COVID-19 vaccines in users' timeline, to help promote vaccination as well as provide users with helpful information on the topic.
News WhatsApp's New Privacy Policy Might Be Illegal 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 How to Check if You Are Among Facebook Users Whose Data Leaked? There is one easy way to check whether your personal data leaked or not. You can use the Have I Been Pwned service to do this.
News Clubhouse Android Version Will Be Released Only in the Summer One of the founders of the Clubhouse app, Paul Davison, announced that the Android version of the voice chat app would be released in a couple of months.
BigTech Facebook Disabled Over 1.3 Billion Fake Accounts Within Three Months According to Facebook, the company also uses AI algorithms to combat misleading information. They identify networks of profiles exhibiting coordinated suspicious activity.
BigTech YouTube Is Testing a New Feature for Identifying Goods on Video The development and testing of the service began last year, but only a limited number of users could take part in it back then. Now, the experimental feature has become available to a broader audience, but it only applies to US residents so far.
News Oman Blocked the Clubhouse App for Not Having a Permit The oldest independent state in the Arab world, Oman, followed China's footsteps and blocked the Clubhouse app for not having a permit from the authorities.
News Jack Dorsey's First Tweet Sold for Over $2,9 Million The first tweet of Twitter CEO, which said "just setting up my twttr," was posted in 2006 and was sold for over $2,9 million. Dorsey said he would convert the amount into bitcoins and donate them to GiveDirectly, which operates in Africa.