Meta’s Expanded Teen Ad Targeting Restrictions

Meta’s definitely shifting it into higher gear with its attempt to recapture younger audiences. Marking its latest effort is a recent heightening of its privacy processes for young users, where Meta introduces new restrictions on how teens can be targeted by ads in its apps. There are also new control options that will allow teens […]

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Twitter’s ‘Hashfetti’ Effect

Finally, a new Twitter update! Well, at least this is the closest Twitter has come to delivering a completely novel idea ever since Chief Twit Elon Musk took the reins. So, just what is this new mystery that’s floating around the platform? Well, take a look at this. From that example, Twitter has seemingly added […]

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Meta Calls for More Online Child Safety Regulations

Following its first-ever Youth Safety and Well-Being Summit, held last month in Washington DC, Meta has called for global cooperation among governments to establish new, definitive requirements around key elements of online child safety, including provisions for access and detection, as well as rules around what is and isn’t acceptable content, particularly concerning social apps.  […]

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Instagram Updating its UI

Seems that Twitter isn’t the only one that’s due for a UI update. Word around the street is that Instagram is also planning to spice up its UI by introducing a few minor tweaks to the app layout, as well as the placement of the function buttons on-screen.  Secret’s Out Based on an image that […]

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Twitter Outlines Alternatives Feeds Plan Rollout

Here’s another one for the ‘Musker’ books: Chief Twit Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend that Twitter will be bringing back its side-swipe option to switch between the algorithmic and chronological timeline sometime this week, with an update to its bookmarks UI already penciled in for next week.  Twitter has already shared examples of how […]

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Meta’s Live Rollout of VRS System

After having fostered its new partnership with the Department of Justice for over a year now, Meta has just released the first stage of live deployment of its new Variance Reduction System (VRS) for housing ads. The system was designed to reduce bias and increase the equitable distribution of ads across Meta’s apps. Check out […]

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TikTok Pauses US Security Deal

Let’s make this clear – TikTok isn’t having fun in the US, currently. Amid ongoing bans within government-related organizations, along with lingering questions about the CCP’s potential influence over its operations, Tiktok’s ‘All-American’ future isn’t looking too bright. TikTok’s latest update doesn’t seem to add much to its currently precarious status. Cease & Desist Based […]

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24 Ways to Boost Your YouTube Subscriber Count

What’s the best way to grow your YouTube channel this 2023? Honestly speaking, regardless of what anybody says, there is no single ‘best’ way to gain more subscribers on YouTube. Throughout history, the observed growth of channels on YouTube always included a myriad of factors that helped paint a better picture of what was really […]

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Preview of Twitter’s New Bookmark UI

If Twitter could be described as anything, it would be like the ocean’s undercurrent. Over the last couple of weeks, Twitter has seen a lot of updates and tweaks, and Chief Twit Elon Musk seems to have only recently found his new favorite Twitter functions, which, of all things, happen to be bookmarks. Yes, ladies […]

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