Reddit allows users to chat privately with other users on the platform. Users have the option to mute notifications from individual conversations if they don’t want to be alerted about those chats. Our guide will show you how to mute notifications in a chat in the Reddit mobile application. Note: These screenshots were captured in… …
LinkedIn’s Open to Work feature allows users to tell other LinkedIn members and/or recruiters that they’re interested in new work opportunities. Users can decide whether this information is shared with everyone on LinkedIn or only recruiters. If a user decides to share this information with everyone on LinkedIn, an “Open to Work” banner will be… …
Discord now allows users to change their video upload quality in the Discord mobile application. While the “Standard” quality is selected by default, “Best Quality” and “Data Saver” options are also available to everyone. Discord Nitro subscribers also have access to 1080p video uploads. Our guide will show you how to change your video upload… …
The For You feed on TikTok is valuable real estate, and there are countless online posts featuring advice and best practices on how to stake a claim to part of that land, but the most foolproof method of doing so is apparently out of the control of brands and creators. Emily Baker-White of Forbes spoke… …
Twitter introduced a new pinned Lists feature and extended its Community Notes crowdsourced fact-checking initiative to more countries. Owner Elon Musk said in a tweet Friday that users can tap Lists on their profile page, create Lists of accounts to follow and tap the pin icon, which will enable them to swipe left and right… …
Clubhouse users can now build Houses on the web, as the social audio application rolled out House Lounges for web Wednesday. Houses let users create a group of community members, fans or friends through invites, and members of Houses can host conversations and come together on a regular basis. There is also a text chat… …
WhatsApp allows each user to create an avatar to represent them throughout the messaging application. Once a user creates an avatar, they can create a profile photo featuring their avatar to use in the app. Our guide will show you how to create an avatar profile photo in the WhatsApp mobile app. Note: These screenshots… …
By default, Facebook users may be able to see the people someone else has befriended on the social networking platform. However, users have the option to hide their friends list from other users if they’d rather keep this list private. Our guide will show you how to stop others from being able to view your… …
Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy and his father star in “On and Off the Ice,” a new spot from National Hockey League partner MassMutual. The spot will debut during the 2023 Discover NHL Winter Classic Jan. 2, when McAvoy’s Bruins will host the Pittsburgh Penguins at Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red… …
By default, all users can send other users friend requests on Facebook. However, Facebook allows users to change a setting so that only friends of their existing friends can send them friend requests. Our guide will show you how to change who can send you friend requests on Facebook. Note: These screenshots were captured in… …
Snapchat’s Snapchat+ subscription service allows subscribers to change the appearance of the recording frame that appears on Snapchat’s camera screen as the user records videos. Our guide will show you how to change the appearance of the recording frame from within the Snapchat mobile application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Snapchat app on… …
Snapchat’s Snapchat+ subscription service allows subscribers to customize the look of each conversation on the social networking platform with a different background wallpaper. Our guide will show you how to change a chat’s wallpaper in the Snapchat mobile application. Note: These screenshots were captured in the Snapchat app on iOS. Step 1: On Snapchat’s “Chats”… …
Short-form video? Reels? Shorts? Those are so last week. Subscription service Twitter Blue is now enabling users to upload videos up to one hour long from the web, at 1080p resolution and a file size of 2 gigabytes, up from 10 minutes at 1080p resolution with a file size limit of 512 megabytes. The 512… …
Instagram added its own flavor to the traditional end-of-year recap from social platforms, delivering its 2022 Recap in Reels form with narration from users’ choice of Bad Bunny, Badshah, DJ Khaled or Priah Ferguson from Stranger Things. Prompts will begin appearing in Instagrammers’ feeds Monday enabling them to create a 2022 Recap, or the option… …
Meta followed up its rollout of the Facebook Reels API (application-programming interface) in September with this week’s addition of Reels metrics to the Facebook Video Insights API. Developers can obtain and analyze the following Reels performance metrics for a Facebook page, for each individual video over the lifetime of the content: average minutes viewed, comments,… …
Instagram introduced new ways for people whose accounts have been hacked to resolve the issues and return to the platform, and it detailed steps it is testing to help prevent account hacking in the first place. Users who are unable to login to their account can go to Instagram.com/hacked on desktop or mobile and choose… …
Twitter is shutting down Revue, the newsletter publishing platform it acquired in January 2021. Revue founder Martijn de Kuijper said in a post on the company’s website that the platform will shut down Jan. 18 and all data will be deleted, adding, “This has been a hard decision because we know Revue has a passionate… …
Did controversial social platform Parler decide that Ye would ramp up the controversy past its comfort level, or did a loss of endorsements make the application’s price tag too high for the artist formerly known as Kanye West? We may never know. What we do know is that Ye’s agreement to acquire Parler, revealed in… …
Pinterest is now available in 41 languages globally across Android, iOS and the web following the additions Tuesday of Afrikaans, Bulgarian and Croatian. The company said in a blog post Tuesday that millions of Pins in the three new languages are already on its platform Pinners can opt for one of the three new languages… …
Reddit shared updates on its ongoing project to revamp its video player. The platform said it will focus on four major areas where feedback from Redditors indicated that improvements are needed: Performance: Reddit said it has lowered daily mobile playback errors by 68% since beginning the project. Conversation: The platform will introduce a swipe-left gesture… …
Creators on subscription content platform OnlyFans can sell personalized merchandies to their fans following an integration with the Spring platform from Amaze Software. OnlyFans creators with stores on Spring can connect those stores directly to their profiles on the platform and offer digital and physical merchandise such as calendars, puzzles and T-shirts directly to fans…. …
YouTube Shorts, meet YouTube TV. YouTube TV, meet YouTube Shorts. The Google-owned video platform brought its short-form video offering to its television application Monday for TV models 2019 and later and newer game consoles. User experience directors Brynn Evans and Melanie Fitzgerald wrote in a blog post Monday, “To make this moment happen, product managers,… …
Pinterest reported $685 million in revenue for the third quarter of 2022, up 8% from the year-earlier period. But its global monthly active users were flat year-over-year, at 445 million. The company said in its earnings release that Canada, global ad U.S. MAUs grew sequentially, adding that Generation Z users grew by double-digits year-over-year. That… …
The third quarter of 2022 was another disappointing three-month period for Meta, as Facebook’s parent company posted revenue of $27.71 billion, down 4% from $29.01 billion in the third quarter of 2021. While the company’s revenue for the quarter slightly exceeded projections of $27.38 billion from Refinitiv and $27.4 billion from Investopedia, that did little… …
LinkedIn is rolling out new features aimed at identifying and removing fake accounts in order to ensure authenticity on its platform. Vice president of product management Oscar Rodriguez explained in a blog post, “I have the pleasure of hearing from you and members across LinkedIn how much value you get from our professional community we’re… …
Twitter employees reacted to a report late last week by Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui, Gerrit De Vynck and Jeremy B. Merrill in The Washington Post that Elon Musk shared plans with potential investors in his $44 billion deal to acquire the company to slash nearly three-quarters of its workforce. The Delaware Court of Chancery set… …