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Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced that the Threads Hidden Words feature now covers more areas of the platform. The social media platform is also testing the ability to mute post notifications.

Instagram's text-focused social media app Threads has achieved a new milestone. Mark Zuckerberg announced during the company's Q1 2024 earnings call that Threads has reached 150 million monthly users.

Reddit has made some improvements to its Android and iOS mobile apps which make the conversations load faster and work in the same way no matter what the media type of the post is.

TikTok seems to be working on a voice cloning feature for its app, according to a new report. Some code strings and the initial user interface were discovered in the latest version of TikTok.

WhatsApp has a cool new feature which will help you save time when trying to respond to your friends and family. In the coming weeks, look out for a three-button tab bar at the top of your chats.

Meta's Oversight Board investigates whether Facebook and Instagram uphold consistent standards of content moderation across the world when users share explicit AI images of female public figures.

Meta's Threads is now confirmed to be testing a new, minor, yet essential, real-time search result option to help users find news and timely information by filtering results by recency.

Meta's Threads will be shutting down in Türkiye on April 29, due to an order by the Turkish Competition Authority which prohibits the sharing of data between Threads and Instagram.

Telegram has added the ability to create new custom stickers in the latest update. Just snap a picture and let the powerful editor crop out background objects, then make the edits you want.

Meta is testing a new nude photo detector that will blur the images so you don't have to see unsolicited pictures. The company also hopes that this and other changes can reduce financial sextortion.

Telegram has launched ads in large public channels. Any owner of a channel with more than 1,000 subscribers is able to show ads in their channel and receive 50% of the revenues raised.

Reddit's share price has tumbled near to where they started last Thursday following a pump from $47 to over $70. Many people had suspected that the stock would pump on the hype before collapsing.

If you thought that Facebook Pokes were dead, you were wrong. They were in a coma for years, but now they are back to fight for engagement. And it seems that the younger generation likes it.

Threads is working on a new feature that lets you swipe right to like a post. Adam Mosseri announced that the feature is now being tested on the platform with a limited pool of users.

Widely-used social media data tool CrowdTangle will officially shut down just weeks before U.S. Presidential election. Meta claims it created an even more powerful successor, but can we believe it?

Instagram is reportedly working on the ability to post backdated content in the app. An alleged screenshot suggests that the feature is in development but there is no word on its release date.

Meta has now launched a dedicated Threads app for Microsoft Windows. Mark Zuckerberg announced on the platform that the social media app is now available on the Microsoft Store to download.

TikTok might be working on a dedicated photo-sharing app. An APK teardown of the TikTok app reveals numerous mentions of an app called TikTok Photos and hints at an upcoming launch.

Research done on generative AI tools like Midjourney revealed widespread disinformation about U.S. elections. It argued that these platforms are failing to implement policies on misinformation.

Now you can save your favorite posts in the Threads app. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on the platform that the Save on Threads feature has started rolling out more broadly.

Threads is testing a couple of highly requested features with a limited number of users, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced. Screenshots of the new features were shared to his Threads account.

The UK-based consumer rights group, Which?, has exposed the scale of scam ads across major online platforms such as Google, YouTube, and Facebook. It called on companies to do more.

TikTok has launched a native app for Apple's Vision Pro. The redesigned experience optimizes TikTok videos to fill the entire field of view and places navigation elements for an immersive view.

Snap has reported that it now has 800 million monthly active users. The last time we heard about MAUs was in February last year when the figure stood at 750 million users, showing it's growing.

Meta will now label photos on its platforms as "Imagined with AI" when they are fully generated by AI tools. It aims to clearly identify photorealistic media as AI-generated rather than authentic.

Sextortion cases have boomed over the last 18 months due to the proliferation of training materials pushed by a single group called Yahoo Boys. Instagram, Snapchat, and Wizz are most targeted.

Instagram is working on a feature called Notes Prompts which will prompt your followers to respond to your Note. The feature is currently being tested with a limited number of users.

Instagram is reportedly working on a LinkedIn-style feature where you will be able to add a reason while sending a follow request to other users. The feature might arrive in a future update.

Even though some time ago, Threads did not appear to have chronological sorting for its posts, there have been updates. Now, users can sort their search results reverse chronologically.

Research done on the impact of social media on relationships of teens and young adults has highlighted a high user satisfaction when it comes to maintaining relationships among other findings.

TikTok has received an update that improves the experience on tablet and foldable devices. The app now supports landscape and portrait orientations and the video is clearer on larger screens.

Now you can create customizable Story templates on Instagram. The social media app is rolling out a new feature that lets other people use your Story as a template and make their additions.

X (formerly Twitter) will soon get the ability to search through bookmarks, Elon Musk announced on the platform. There is no word on the release date of the underdevelopment feature as of now.

TikTok has become the first non-gaming app to generate $10 billion in consumer spending. The social media app crunched almost $4 billion in 2023, with a growth of 61% from where it started this year.

The text-based version of Instagram, Threads, could have had a different name. Instagram head Adam Mosseri talked about the alternative names they had in mind while picking a name for Threads.

Threads is now rolling out the ability to tag posts in its app to all regions across the globe. However, the feature works differently than Instagram, where you can only add one tag per post.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri came forward to clarify why Threads can't display search results in chronological order. Keyword search for Threads was recently rolled out to all the regions globally.