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A yawning face, service and guide dogs, and a lone drop of blood that’s being called the “period emoji” by a girls’ rights group are just three of the new emojis found in Unicode’s official 2019 update of the ubiquitous telecom ideograms. It’s set to roll out this spring, CNN reports, and various smartphone operating […]

Twitter has been teasing forever now that one day, it might just let users edit their tweets. Now, they continue to make us wonder not if, but when. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey joined Joe Rogan’s podcast to further taunt users about the possible ability for them to edit tweets. Read more: Artist makes adorable Ned […]

At long last, Facebook is implementing a new Messenger feature that gives users the ability to fully remove messages—from everyone’s view—in a conversation on the social media messaging app. This, after Facebook co-founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly already had the Messenger unsend capability at his disposal, as pointed out by CNBC. How does it work? Just […]

Twitter is testing a new feature to help users be caught up to date on daily news. The update is currently being tested in the company’s Android app. It places news stories at the top of a Twitter user’s timeline with a prompt suggesting them to catch up on what happened when they weren’t online. […]

Twitter is testing out a new feature to make it easier to determine who was the “original tweeter” of a thread.  The new feature attempts to curb abuse and help users differentiate between fake and real accounts. It was initiated for some users on Wednesday. There’s a gray icon that says “original tweeter.” Read more: […]

Facebook will launch its latest feature to allow people to engage in politics and social justice: petitions. The feature, which will be released Monday, is called Community Actions. It allow people to make petitions via their social media page, according to TechCrunch. Not every user will have access to Community Actions immediately. Read more: Ryan […]

Instagram just got caught selling advertisements to the same follower-buying companies it claimed to have banned back in November. Back in November, Instagram claimed it banned all accounts that were obtained by third-party apps. These apps allow people to purchase followers and likes from fake accounts and bots. Read more:Cringe at this tattoo artist attempting […]

Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach has announced that he will be taking a break from social media. Leach says the reason for the break is to take care of his mental health. According to Loudwire, Leach shared that he is going through a divorce in a since-deleted Instagram post. Read more: Enter Shikari frontman honors David […]

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor got real about his struggles with addiction to social media. Taylor is working on his fifth book, which he talked about as a guest on the Let There Be Talk podcast. He delved into the topics of addiction and our culture’s inability to put down their phones. Read […]

Twitter is in need of a few guinea pigs to test some forthcoming updates and features. However, this time, the social media site is encouraging its testers to publicly share their experiences. The network is looking for about 1,000 lucky users to try out features that are meant to encourage conversation. Read more: One of your […]

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is urging a boycott of Facebook today after two new reports show Russian trolls specifically targeted black communities on the platform during the 2016 election. The reports (from Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and cybersecurity firm New Knowledge) confirm previous suspicions of Russian meddling in […]

Snapchat use drops for the third straight year as YouTube takes the top spot on Apple‘s recently released list of the most-downloaded iPhone apps of 2018, meaning the video sharing company can now officially consider itself the “most popular iPhone app of the year,” as noted by Mashable. So, did you snap or cruise the […]

The tech community is constantly evolving, and the music scene is about to reap huge benefits from a new app called Playlist.   Pandora, Spotify, SoundCloud and other streaming platforms are fantastic for individual listening, but they lack a social aspect in a world driven by social media. Read more: Here’s the reason Tumblr is […]

It looks like Facebook and Instagram are currently down for some. And the parent company behind the “Facebook family of apps” is confirming certain users’ trouble accessing the social networking applications as of late Tuesday morning. But how about you, are you able to use Facebook or Insta right now? Read more: Why is Tumblr […]

Facebook claims it’s fixed a bug that allowed websites to obtain information from a user’s profile, including their “likes” and interests, after security researcher Ron Masas zeroed in on the particular social media exploit, reports TechCrunch. Read more: ‘Harry Potter’ fan tries to adopt Tom Felton Masas, who works for cybersecurity company Imperva, found that […]

Twitter just lost a whopping 9 million users, the company behind the social networking service announced today, in an ongoing effort to wipe out bots and spam on the platform while making more money in the long run. And it appears to be working. Twitter made a profit for the fourth successive quarter, as reported […]

A recent study from Pew Research Center found that Americans don’t have a lot of knowledge of social media bots. While two-thirds of Americans have heard about them, not everyone feels confident they can distinguish bots from humans. Read more: Stephen Hawking posthumously predicts consequences of superhumans According to the study, 66 percent of Americans are aware […]