YouTube Stories Retiring Next Month

YouTube is the latest platform to move on from the Stories format, with YouTube Stories set to be depreciated next month. Originally launched in 2018 to latch onto the Stories trend, which had been initially sparked by Snapchat, YouTube Stories aimed to provide a similar, full-screen engagement option, and provide more ways for creators to […]

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Musk Endorses Idea of Twitter Circles Shutdown

It looks like Circles could be the next thing in Elon Musk’s crosshairs. With the Chief Twit endorsing the suggestion that it should do away with the enclosed group Tweeting option entirely. Circles, which Twitter launched a year ago, was one of Twitter’s various projects that aligned with the broader shift of social interactions to […]

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TikTok’s New ‘Tako’ AI Chatbot

TikTok’s looking to latch onto the growing AI hype, with the world’s entertainment HQ now launching its own AI chatbot, which is currently being tested with users in the Philippines. What’s probably the most interesting about this update is how TikTok is launching what would probably be a test feature in an Asian market, instead […]

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Snapchat Reaches 200M in India

India has now also positioned itself, again, as another top market for a social platform, with the most recent beneficiary being Snapchat. The company now reports that it serves over 200 million Indian users every month. That means that some 27% of Snap’s entire user base is now based in India. Snapchat has 100 million […]

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Twitter’s New Picture-in-Picture Video Playback

Recently, Elon Musk promised that new Twitter video updates would be coming through ‘thick and fast’, and that he’s definitely holding true to this, with two new video updates on the verge of rolling out to Twitter users. Tweets and Double Pics First off, Twitter’s long-awaited picture-in-picture (PiP) playback window is now active on all […]

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