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2 in 5 Indian users happy at Musk’s Twitter acquisition: Report
New Delhi : Around two in five (37 per cent) Twitter users in India are happy about the micro-blogging platform's acquisition by tech billionaire Elon Musk, with urban millennial users being most likely to say this (at 43 per cent), a…
Twitter tests new way to let you share tweets with selected people
San Francisco : Micro-blogging site Twitter is now testing a 'Close Friends'-like feature, Twitter Circle, that lets users add up to 150 people who can see your Tweets. The company said that the feature is in its early stages and that is…
Instagram testing TikTok-like fullscreen feed
San Francisco : Meta-owned photo sharing platform Instagram is experimenting with full-screen vertical home feeds. In a video posted on micro-blogging site Twitter, Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed the test and said that taller photos…
YouTube Go to stop operating from August this year
San Francisco : Video-streaming platform YouTube has announced that YouTube Go, designed for offline videos, will no longer be available for users beginning in August. YouTube Go allows users to save videos for offline viewing, giving…
Don’t feel for me, pray for Twitter instead: Parag Agrawal
New Delhi : As Elon Musk prepares to hire a new CEO for Twitter once he takes over, current CEO Parag Agrawal is worried about the future of the micro-blogging platform, not his job. Amid multiple reports that Musk has lined up a new CEO to…
Twitter bans 2 right-wing accounts as Musk promotes free speech
San Francisco : Amid Elon Musk's free speech call, Twitter has re-suspended the accounts of two prominent conservative figures MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and Dr Vladimir "Zev" Zelenko. The micro-blogging platform permanently suspended their…
This is how Twitter’s Edit button will finally work
New Delhi : As Twitter plans to give its users an Edit button, after a push by its soon-to-be boss Elon Musk to help them correct errors in their tweets, app researcher and reverse engineer Jane Manchun Wong on Tuesday revealed the first…
Meta took down over 27 mn pieces of bad content in India in March
New Delhi : Meta formerly Facebook took down 24.6 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 2.7 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in the month of March, in accordance with the IT Rules 2021.…
Facebook to shut down its podcast platform next month
San Francisco : Facebook is shutting down its podcast platform next month, within less than a year of its launch as the company "re-evaluates" its audio offerings in a fast-changing world of technology. The company is also shutting down…
WhatsApp bans over 18 lakh bad accounts in India in March
New Delhi : Meta-owned WhatsApp on Monday said that it banned over 18 lakh bad accounts in India in the month of March in compliance with the new IT Rules 2021. The platform had banned over 14 lakh such accounts in the country in February.…