Biodun on Days after making a poll about free speech on Twitter, Bloomberg reports Tesla CEO Elon Musk now owns a 9.2 percent stake in the social media platform according to a regulatory filing on Monday. Twitter shares rose by 27 percent after the news and Musk’s …
Biodun on After the company began testing the return of the chronological feed in January, Instagram announced today the feed is once again available to everyone more than five years after it switched to an algorithm-controlled feed. The algorithm-controlled feed is not going away but users will …
Biodun on Starting today, Instagram is expanding its product tagging feature to everyone over the next few months, the company announced. Instagram first introduced product tagging on posts in 2016 but only creators could take advantage of the feature. With the roll out in the United States, …
Biodun on A few days after rolling an algorithm-generated timeline for iOS users, Twitter has rolled back the decision. The update was scheduled to arrive on the web and Android “soon” but the company received a lot of backlashes forcing it to reverse the decision. In the …
Biodun on Instagram wants “marginalized and underrepresented creators and collaborators whose contributions are often behind the scenes” to be known and the company is introducing enhanced tags to make this work. Starting today, creators will have a new way to give proper credit to other creators through …
Biodun on Instagram is adding auto-generated captions to videos, company head Adam Mosseri announced on Tuesday saying the feature has been “a long time coming.” Captions will now appear automatically on videos but users will still be able to decide to turn them off or on. Twitter …
Biodun on If three minutes was not long enough for you, TikTok is now giving its users the ability to extend uploads length to 10 minutes. The company announced the update on Monday in what is seen as a major shift from the short-form content it was …
Biodun on Twitter is giving all users the ability to add one-time content warnings to tweets that contain “sensitive” content. The company began testing the feature last December but it’s now rolling out the feature to all users on Android, iOS, and the web. Tweets that contain …
Biodun on Today, Meta announced it is launching Reels on Facebook globally in more than 150 countries on Android and iOS. Since its launch in the US on Facebook, it was also made available in Mexico, Canada, and India but the Tik-Tok-like short-form video is now coming …
Biodun on Twitter is bringing pinned DMs to everyone on Android, iOS and the web, the company announced on Thursday. Previously, the feature was only available on Twitter Blue, its paid subscription service. Users will be able to pin up to six conversations that are most important …
Biodun on Instagram wants your DM conversation to be better organised, in response to this the company is rolling our Private Story Likes. Instead of you sending an emoji or replying with a text which normally appears as a DM conversation, you will now be able to …
Biodun on Last July, Twitter began experimenting with upvote and downvote reactions to replies among a small number of iOS users, the company announced on Thursday it is now rolling the test out to a larger group of users globally including on Android and the web. When …
Biodun on Instagram today announced it will begin testing subscriptions in the US with only a limited number of creators having access to the feature for now. “With Instagram Subscriptions, creators can develop deeper connections with their most engaged followers and grow their recurring monthly income by …
Biodun on The Nigerian government on Wednesday announced it has lifted the six months suspension it placed on microblogging site Twitter after it was banned last year June. The country suspended Twitter indefinitely after its president Muhammadu Buhari made a controversial tweet threatening to punish regional secessionists, …
Biodun on Twitter is testing a new “quote tweet with reaction” button. The company announced on Thursday users will now be able to customize tweets by quoting with reaction videos or photos. The feature is currently being tested on iOS and is only available to select users …
Biodun on After promising to bring back the chronological feed at a Senate hearing in December, Instagram head Adam Mosseri in a video posted on Twitter on Tuesday revealed the company has started testing the feature. In a video demonstration, Mosseri revealed three different feed options from …