There’s a HUGE change coming to Instagram and it could divide opinion
When Instagram made the decision to change its newsfeed from chronological order, it's no exaggeration to say many users were not happy. Ever since it's been a point of annoyance for many who've begged the platform to quit the current algorithm-informed feed and go back to the good old days …
This royal family member just started a personal Instagram account
One of the most highly publicised (and modern) rules of being a member of the British royal family is keeping your distance on social media, with Prince Harry's fiancee Meghan Markle deleting her Instagram and Twitter accounts as well as her blog, The Tig, after the couple announced their engagement … …
WhatsApp Now Gives You An Hour To Unsend Those Messages
WhatsApp has quietly increased the amount of time you have to unsend a message to over an hour. Having initially unveiled the ability to unsend messages back in October WhatsApp inexplicably gave you just seven minutes to delete the message from the moment you sent it. According to WABetaInfo … Read …
Capillary Technologies looks to tap instant messaging platforms, in talks with WhatsApp
Online customer relationship management (CRM) tools provider Capillary Technologies is looking to tap apps-based instant messaging platforms to help drive their retail businesses. While it is already working with WeChat and Line, it is currently in talks WhatsApp, which is looking to launch its retail … Read More
Soon, Axis Bank to process payments over WhatsApp
India's third largest private sector bank Axis Bank today said it would soon be able to process payments over the popular chatting application WhatsApp. The bank also termed the Unified Payment Interface (UPI) as a “huge oppertunity”. “UPI we are the market leaders in terms of innovation, and we do … …
Geoff Shreeves labels Gary Lineker ‘never right and never funny’ in bitter Twitter row over Jamie …
But Lineker, who works for both BT Sport and the BBC, posted a joke on Twitter about Carragher's removal from Sky Sports' coverage of the Monday night Premier League encounter between Stoke City and Manchester City. “Seems @Carra23 can't do it on a cold, damp Monday night at Stoke,” Lineker … …
Nintendo Switch update enables friends to be pulled from Twitter and Facebook
NINTENDO HAS UPDATED the Switch to make it easier for hybrid console fans to add contacts from Facebook and Twitter into their friends list. The new feature comes courtesy of Nintendo's 5.0.0 update which also smooths over some kinks in the operating system and adds new parental controls. Read More
Chemistry bots collude on Twitter to speed up their experiments
Forget Russian botnets or cryptocurrency spammers – the latest robots to join Twitter are chemists. By hooking up automated platforms to the internet and letting them chat on social media, researchers have shown that robots can work together to solve simple chemistry problems. Lee Cronin at the … Read More
UN says Facebook is accelerating ethnic violence in Myanmar
The United Nations has warned that Facebook's platform is contributing to the spread of hate speech and ethnic violence in crisis hit Myanmar. It's yet another black mark against social media at a time when the tech industry's reputation as an accelerator of false information is attracting criticism from the … …
UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar
UN investigators have accused Facebook of playing a "determining role" in stirring up hatred against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. One of the team probing possible acts of genocide said Facebook had "turned into a beast." About 700,000 Rohingya have fled to Bangladesh since Myanmar's military … Read More