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Facebook and Instagram began a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service on Friday, testing users’ willingness to pay for social media features that until now have been free. Facing a drop in advertising revenues, parent company Meta is piloting a subscription in Australia and New Zealand before it appears in larger markets. The … Read more
Facebook and Instagram began a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service on Friday, testing users’ willingness to pay for social media features that until now have been free. Facing a drop in advertising revenues, parent company Meta is piloting a subscription in Australia and New Zealand before it appears in larger markets. The … Read more
Earlier this month, Instagram revealed a new feature called Channels that enables users to share text posts, polls, and interact with their followers. Meta says that the new feature will be accessible to all users soon.Channels are one of the well-known features used on various messengers and platforms, including Telegram. Kaspersky professionals have put together … Read more
Google announced last year that it is making it mandatory for all developers to include data safety labels on their apps. The company said the change is part of its efforts to honour user privacy. These labels will make Android users aware of what private data is accessed by the app and what is shared … Read more
Around 76 percent of respondents have claimed that they have noticed a rise in pesky calls or SMS based on their conversations with WhatsApp business accounts and their activity on Facebook or Instagram, online survey firm LocalCircles said on Wednesday. According to the survey conducted between February 1 and 20, 95 percent of WhatsApp users surveyed … Read more
Meta Platforms Inc. is preparing for a new round of job cuts, targeted at divisions across the company and around the world, as part of a reorganizing and downsizing effort that could affect thousands of workers, the Washington Post reported. Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg explained during the company’s earnings report this month that … Read more
Three months ago, Elon Musk announced an $11 (roughly Rs. 910) monthly subscription service to give Twitter users a blue verification check mark. On Sunday, Meta Platforms announced largely the same thing: a $15 (roughly Rs. 1,240) subscription service for users to get a blue verified badge, so long as they provide a government-issued ID. Meta Chief … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg, officially announced the new Broadcast Channel feature for Instagram via an official blog post. For those unaware, the Broadcast Channel feature is a public channel created by content creators on the platform to interact and engage with their followers and share their activities, projects and more. The blog post also confirms that Meta … Read more
Instagram has evolved from just being photo and video sharing platform. It now also let users create Reels, increase followers and also engage with their followers. The platform also let content creators go live to engage and interact with the followers. That being said, it offers a slew of tools for content creators to engage … Read more
Amid all the chaos on your ever-changing Facebook and Instagram feed, Meta wants you to pay not to fix your feed but for the blue badge, the one you see next to your favourite influencer. Yes, even you can have it now. As if it was not meta enough, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s co-founder and CEO, … Read more