Tag: social media
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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Bluesky is stepping up its bid to dethrone X by getting serious about verification and impersonation
Bluesky is expanding its moderation team as the platform grows New verification and impersonation measures are coming Bluesky says it will have more to share on these features soon Users have been arriving on Bluesky in droves – many moving over from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) – but while…
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Reddit Recap 2024 is live – here’s how to see how your recap, and find out how many bananas you scrolled this year
Reddit Recap 2024 is here You can see recaps for yourself and your favorite communities Tap on the banana icon in the app to see them As the year draws to a close, we don’t just have the holiday season and Black Friday deals to get excited about. No, we…
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The Bluesky hype explained – how it compares to Twitter and the best ways to switch
In the wake of the US election, millions of users have been joining Bluesky every day. A decentralized rival to X (formerly Twitter), the platform now has more than 20 million users. According to data from Similarweb, daily usage grew by more than 500% after the election. In a recent…
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I wasted my day on Bluesky Social and no, I’m not sorry
I would like to say I saw Bluesky Social’s big moment coming. After all, I joined the social network in April 2023 when few knew about it, and Twitter Founder and ex-charmingly quirky tech CEO Jack Dorsey was leading it. I rooted around a bit, and despite its threadbare interface,…
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