social media

Instagram is going to begin testing what it’s like to hide like counts on its platform this week. The testing is only in Canada for now, and it will hide public like counts on videos and photos in users’ feeds. Read more: PVRIS release gritty remix of the Aces track “Last One” Instagram says the […]

Facebook has a creepy side according to a new study that states the social media platform might have more dead users than alive very soon. The study, published by Big Data & Society, discovered that could be the truth within the next 50 years. Read more: ‘Us’ star compares the Tethered to ‘Game Of Thrones’ […]

Facebook says they stored millions of Instagram users’ passwords in readily available files employees can access. The security issue came to light last month after it was discovered hundreds of millions of Facebook passwords were exposed. Read more: Crown The Empire give “Old Town Road” an acoustic spin They previously claimed tens of thousands of Instagram users […]

For the second time in a month, Facebook experienced a worldwide outage where users were unable to access the social networking sites. According to DownDetector.com, both Instagram and WhatsApp were also down for roughly two hours Sunday morning. The website, used to track online service outages, listed tens of thousands of reports from social media […]

Let’s face it — everyone probably has written something on Twitter or Facebook that they would never dream of posting now. Some people might want to just clean up their social media in general. Others might desire to prevent bad things from showing up when they Google their name for personal or professional reasons. Well, […]

Soon, your Tinder matches might be able to get to know you a little better because soon, you can share your Snapchat stories to your profile on the dating app. The new function is part of a huge announcement Snapchat made about upcoming developments in the app. Those include expansion of Bitmojis to other apps, […]

Facebook is launching a new feature to better explain to users why certain posts are showing up in their New Feeds. It will also allow them to have input on what they see.  Facebook’s product manager Ramya Sethuraman announced the change in a blog post about the site. Read more: Billie Eilish plays ‘Ellen’ with […]

Twitter might not listen when we ask for an edit button, but they sure do know how to win over our cold emo hearts with their new “dark mode” feature. Previously, Twitter users were able to turn on a “dark mode,” previously known as “night mode,” to darken the background of their feed. Read more: […]

There’s a new prank making its way around Twitter that results in users getting locked out of their accounts. The trick involves getting the Twitter user to change their birth date to 2007 in order to “unlock new color schemes” for their timeline. Well, guess what? There are no new color schemes and you’re now […]

Facebook allegedly stored between 200 and 600 million users’ passwords in plain text, leaving them exposed to about 20,000 employees. According to Krebs on Security, the passwords were easily searchable to the many Facebook employees going back to 2012. Read more: Dance Gavin Dance drop Wild West-themed “Head Hunter” video The company put out a […]

Apple has responded to Spotify’s accusations against them which claim the company is sabotaging the balance of fair competition. Spotify unveiled a complaint with the European Commission, the regulatory body of the European Union. It was about the way Apple uses the App Store to allegedly limit choice and stifle innovation.  Read more: ‘Bird Box’ […]

The Tumblr ban on adult content has apparently hurt the social media site’s traffic by a drastic amount. Back in November, Tumblr was removed from Apple’s app store following concerns that child pornography had made its way onto the platform. Read more: Halsey, 5SOS among iHeartRadio Music Awards winners Following the app’s removal, Tumblr announced […]

Twitter has recently rolled out their latest prototype to its first batch of testers and now, thanks to TechCrunch, we have our first look at what the future of Twitter could hold for us. The biggest change we could see? The removal of public like and retweet counts on tweets, allowing only the user to […]

If you’ve ever wanted to watch Instagram videos with friends who are not around, you might just have the chance. Apparently, the company is testing out a watch party feature that will allow you to watch videos with friends while video chatting them. Read more: An exhibit honoring Chester Bennington will show never-before-seen photos Jane […]

Post Malone has taken to Twitter to slam trolls targeting his girlfriend on social media. The posts were a response to people to found out Malone had a girlfriend and posted her social media accounts online. Read more: ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ musical episode is getting a vinyl release “To my REAL fans I love […]

It appears that Instagram is copying Pinterest with its latest “Collections” feature. According to Techcrunch, the social media platform is working on the new feature which will allow users to organize their saved posts into groups and then share those collections with their friends. Read more: Tony Hawk is teaching his daughter how to skateboard […]