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TikTok has introduced a new app called Whee, an Instagram analog, which is currently being tested and is only available on Android devices. Visually, Whee resembles the well-known Instagram social network by Meta. However, according to the developers, the new app is designed to share photos only with your closest friends. Whee has a standard […]
Content makers are not willing to post their material on Platform X after it was acquired by Elon Musk. The social network promises large payouts, but in reality, the interest on advertising is irregular. This is reported by Bisinessinsider. After Musk acquired the X platform, he tried to attract more content creators and promised them […]
A few days ago, Tik Tok was flooded with memes about Ukrainian presidential candidate Mykhailo Lebigovich. In the comments under almost every video, users write that they will vote for him in the presidential election. Let’s try to figure out what this trend is and how it started based on media publications. Who is Mikhail […]
Elon Musk has announced that social network X, formerly known as Twitter, will remove the ability to block other users’ accounts. Later, Musk added that this feature did not make sense. The former Twitter owner answered a question from the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley account whether it makes sense to block someone at all: “The […]
The new Threads app has reached 20% of Twitter’s weekly audience worldwide and 86 times the active user base of Truth Social, Twitter’s main competitor in the US, TechCrunch reports. Sensor Tower, an application analysis company, also analyzed a slight drop in Threads’ popularity. The number of daily active Threads users decreased by 20% on […]
Elon Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro, in a letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, claims that the company used “Twitter’s trade secrets and intellectual property.” The letter says that Meta hired “dozens” of ex-Twitter employees to develop Threads (which is not surprising, given how many people Elon Musk fired after the acquisition), who still had […]
After the first screenshots of the so-called “Project Balcelona”, which is the name of a new text social network from Meta, were leaked to the Internet, we heard nothing more about it. Now journalists have published new images and said that the company is already attracting its first celebrities. One of Meta’s directors showed employees […]
The Montana authorities have banned TikTok in the United States. The decision was made to protect residents from the collection of confidential information by Chinese intelligence agencies. Montana, with a population of over 1 million people, became the first US state to completely ban the service. The authorities say they may fine ByteDance, which owns […]
Elon Musk continues to look for ways to make money on Twitter, and another one of them is aimed at companies and brands that will be forced to pay for the ‘golden tick’ – a mark that they recently received on the social network. If the owners of ‘gold’ badges refuse to pay $1000 per […]
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold Instagram for $750 million and left Facebook in 2018 due to “relationship difficulties.” Subsequently, the developers created their own startup, which explores ideas for next-generation social applications. Their first product, Artifact, is a social network that uses machine learning to personalize the news feed. Artifact — a product that […]