Social Media

After three consecutive quarters of stalling (or negative) user growth in 2018, Snapchat is firmly heading in the right direction in 2019. the most recent figures, reported this week for Q3, show a jump of 7 million DAUs from Q2. Looking…
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Apparently the new Joker movie has had quite an impact all over the world. For one social media star in particular, who caught a bout of contagious laughter, simply seeing Joker was not enough - he wanted to be him. Ebraheem Hababi…
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In his speech Thursday at Georgetown University on free speech, Mark Zuckerberg briefly called out Facebook’s young Chinese-owned competitor TikTok. “While our services like WhatsApp are used by protesters and activists everywhere due to…
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Facebook wants to know whether its users would prefer like, reaction, and video view counts to be hidden from posts — and, starting today, it's already testing this in Australia. A company spokesperson told TechCrunch that this is a…
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Facebook's attempt to clean up its platform has revealed its developer problems are about much more than just Cambridge Analytica. The company has suspended "tens of thousands" of apps from its platform as the result of its investigation…
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Every year at DMEXCO, 41,000 visitors, around 1,000 exhibitors and more than 550 speakers from all over the world come together in Cologne to set the digital agenda of tomorrow today. In a recent DMEXCO community survey, Artificial…
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Truecaller today announced that it has crossed 1 million paying subscribers globally, and has added a series of new feature to its paid subscription service, Truecaller Premium. Rolled out globally, the premium subscription service will now…
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In the western world, it’s easy to think of Google and Apple as the key players in the tech market. On a global scale, however, they have quite a few competitors — particularly the Chinese search engine giant Baidu, which made headlines…
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Twitter just unveiled yet another experiment it's hoping will help make its service a more welcoming place: the ability to follow topics the same way you might follow individual accounts. The company has discussed some version of this…
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Lil Miquela posted her first Instagram post in 2016. Three years later and she has over 1.6 million followers. Not bad for someone who is not even real. Brands are increasingly using virtual influencers like Lil Miquela, but where does…
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