Twitter announces the arrival of stickers for users to edit photos
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 28 June 2016Taking a cue from other popular social media platforms, Twitter announces new stickers for users to decorate and edit their photos before posting. FULL STORY >
Facebook debuts new event listings for 10 American cities
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 28 June 2016Curated by humans, and providing a weekend social calendar of sorts, Facebook announces its new Featured Events list. FULL STORY >
WhatsApp surpasses 100 million calls per day milestone
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 24 June 2016Not simply an instant messaging tool, WhatsApp also facilitates a number of phone calls too, recently passing the 100 million call per day mark. FULL STORY >
Instagram to add translation button while texting in-app
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 23 June 2016Ever had a desire to translate comments and captions in Instagram? You're in luck then, as the social media platform will be launching an in-app button to do just that. FULL STORY >
Following a password leak, Twitter has blocked millions of compromised accounts
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 10 June 2016An estimated 32 million Twitter account passwords were leaked recently, prompting the company to block several million user accounts. FULL STORY >
Facebook believes new DeepText AI has near-human accuracy
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 2 June 2016Facebook introduces its new DeepText AI platform, to better help users via its deep learning ability and near-human accuracy. FULL STORY >
Instagram introduces new business tools
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 1 June 2016Including new business profiles, analytics and the ability to turn posts into ads, Instagram introduces an array of business tools. FULL STORY >
It's official, usernames and images not part of Twitter character count
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 25 May 2016n an effort to increase user satisfaction on its social media platform, Twitter will no longer count usernames and images as part of its 140 character limit. FULL STORY >
Twitter reportedly removing character count for links and images in Tweets
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 17 May 2016Ever been foiled by Twitter's 14 character limit because of a link or photo? Well, the company could soon stop counting them as part of the character limit for Tweets. FULL STORY >
Instagram introduces new logo and streamlines look of UI
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 12 May 2016The popular social media platform has just gone through a redesign, as Instagram introduces a new logo and UI. FULL STORY >
Periscope now lets users permanently save their videos
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 5 May 2016Taking a play out of Facebook Live's playbook, Periscope now lets users save their videos by using #Save in the title description. FULL STORY >
Sean Parker relaunches failed Airtime chatroom as live mobile app
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 22 April 2016After failing to launch Airtime as a Chat Roulette-esque service, Sean Parker rebrands the chat room service as a live-sharing mobile app. FULL STORY >
iOS version of Snapchat now allows users to add moving emoji
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 20 April 2016The go-to social media app of choice at the moment, Snapchat adds some new emoji features to keep users interested. FULL STORY >
Samsung debuts new social media platform, Waffle, at SXSW
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 16 March 2016Developed by Samsung's experimental C-Lab, Waffle is the new social media platform that Samsung is currently beta testing. FULL STORY >
Instagram to block links to Telegram and Snapchat in user profiles
By Robin-Leigh Chetty 4 March 2016In a subtle change that may have gone unnoticed by some, Instagram has opted to block links to other apps like Telegram and Snapchat within user profiles. FULL STORY >
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