LinkedIn Updates Policies for GDPR Compliance
LinkedIn has updated its terms of service and will become compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation in May. In a blog as well as an email to members of the business-focused social network, Sara Harrington, vice president of legal at LinkedIn, said that the company was making changes that … …
As Bots Flourish on Instagram, Companies Form to Fight Them
In a sunny office in the SoHo neighborhood of Manhattan, Mike Schmidt spends his time ferreting out fake Instagram accounts. Some are obvious, like the one that had never posted a photo and lacked a profile picture yet followed about 7,500 accounts — the maximum allowed by the social media …
Your forever childhood crush, Michael J. Fox, is now on Instagram
Not only did Fox create an Instagram profile, but he's already giving us all the feels with his first post. He went in hard with the nostalgia and shared a bromantic pic with Kiefer Sutherland on the set of Designated Survivor (he's joining the ABC series for a mini-arc) along …
How the director of Social Animals made a documentary about teens and Instagram that doesn’t suck
They talk about their lives, which means they talk about Instagram — how it's helped them, how it's harmed them, what the rules are, what people can use it for, why they might care. That's it! It starts with a simple, unpretentious concept, and the result is a nuanced and …
WhatsApp will now let you delete messages an hour after you send them
WhatsApp has expanded the amount of time it gives you to delete a message after mistakenly sending it. Originally launched as a feature that gave you seven minutes to rectify your mistake, the messaging company has now expanded the feature to allow you to delete messages up to an hour …
WhatsApp adds feature to check ‘Delete for Everyone’ misuse
"When the user deletes a message for everyone, WhatsApp sends to the recipient(s) a new message having the same ID of the message that the user wants to revoke," the post added. Earlier, when a recipient received this particular message containing the revoke request, WhatsApp checked if the ID of … …
WhatsApp Now Gives You More Than an Hour to Recall a Message
Having textual regret? If you sent your message via WhatsApp, you'll now have more than an hour to recall it. According to WhatsApp-focused WABetaInfo, WhatsApp recently rolled out app updates that increase the message recall time limit from just 8 minutes and 32 seconds to more than an hour. Read …
How to Find the Top Hashtags on Twitter
You may not know it but using the top hashtags on your Twitter posts could actually boost your user engagement and audience reach. With over 300 million monthly active users around the world, there is no doubt that Twitter offers some of the best opportunities to boost your content marketing …
Twitter has started suspending accounts that steal tweets
"Tweetdecking is over. Our follower gains are gonna diminish," one tweetdecker told BuzzFeed in February, even before the latest crackdown. Many users are now praising the move to help eradicate the influx of falsely-boosted spam tweets. As noted by Twitter itself in a blog post last month, the service … Read …
Xbox One Will Soon Be Able To Share Directly To Twitter
Ybarra announced to the public that those part of the Xbox Insider program are currently alpha testing the new Twitter sharing function that allows users to post images and DVR content directly to the social media service. In the thread, he starts by sharing an image of the game Samsara, …