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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
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
Facebook, the social network that was supposed to stay free “always,” and its stablemate Instagram launched on Sunday a paid subscription service, as the advertising-based business model that has long dominated the internet falters. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook-parent Meta, announced on Sunday the launch of Meta Verified, a service starting at $11.99 (roughly Rs. … Read more
Facebook parent Meta Platforms has announced a subscription service, called Meta Verified. The paid subscription service will allow users to verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the service. “This new feature is about increasing authenticity and security across our services,” Zuckerberg wrote in a … Read more
Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that enables users to comment on posts with animated images, or GIFs. Users can search for GIFs and pull them from GIPHY to post them as a reply in the comments section.Media reports suggest that the feature is rolled out to only a handful of users. Some have … Read more
According to a report, thousands of Meta employees have received poor performance reviews from the company, raising fears that tech giant may come up with a fresh round of layoffs, after it handed pink slips to around 11,000 workers in November last year. Also Read | Meta plans fresh layoffs, delays setting team budgets: Report … Read more
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook parent Meta, has launched ‘Channels’ – a new broadcast chat feature. The feature will let creators share messages with their followers and engage with them.Zuckerberg announced the feature by creating a channel and named it “Meta Channel”. Instagram is starting to test channels with select creators in the US today. … Read more
Instagram, the social media platform owned by Meta Platforms, is rolling out a broadcast chat feature called Channels, the company’s boss Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday. “I’m starting a channel to share news and updates on all the products and tech we’re building at Meta,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post. “It will be the … Read more
WhatsApp head Will Cathcart has pointed out the ‘biggest security flaw’ in Telegram. He outlined the security vulnerabilities in the competing messaging platform, suggesting people not use it.“If you think Telegram is secure, you should read this article and understand the truth – especially before you use it for anything private,” Cathcart said while quoting … Read more