Category: social media
X CEO Linda Yaccarino is keynoting at CES 2025, but don’t expect any answers
X CEO Linda Yaccarino is unexpectedly sweeping into CES 2025 for a keynote. The former NBC Universal executive, who joined X (formerly Twitter) as CEO in 2023 and had done little to nothing to dampen owner Elon Musk’s incendiary use of the platform, will sit down with CBS News investigative…
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TikTok will have its day in court, but it’s time to ask what we’ll do without it
Of all the arguments TikTok owner ByteDance could’ve made to retain ownership and still operate in the US, Freedom of Speech might be the weakest and one it’s unlikely to win when it argues its case before the US Supreme Court on January 10. Look, I’m no legal expert, but…
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Instagram finally has all the tools to make your own year in review for Stories
You won’t need to search for another app to make an EOY recap for Instagram The app is rolling out a new Collage type for Stories to create your own There are new secret effects for DMs and more ‘Add Yours’ stickers Between Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay, it’s…
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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads were down – here’s what you need to know
Refresh 2024-12-12T00:15:13.756Z Mopping up Meta did eventually hop onto X (formerly Twitter) to first acknowledge the issues and then let everyone know they’re working on it. At around 6PM, Meta returned to X to tell everyone, “We’re 99% of the way there.” No details about what happened, like which technical…
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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Threads are down or failing – here’s what you need to know
Refresh 2024-12-11T21:11:34.863Z A rough ride WhatsApp may have had the roughest ride with two massive outage report spikes, as per Down Detector. It being a private messaging app, it’s hard to know what people were experiencing or what they were saying (and not able to say) about the outage. Based…
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Nobody wants this but a TikTok ban is starting to seem inevitable
Stop your dancing, lip-syncing, how-tos, restorations, commiserations, and online shops; TikTok just took another big step closer to the sharp blade of a US ban’s guillotine. The massively popular app could disappear from US phones as early as next month, and while it’s an outcome few want, it’s the one…
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