In May, we reported that Instagram seemed to be testing a version of the app that removed the public like counter on users’ posts. The owner of the post could still see how many likes the post accrued and who left them, but they would be invisible to everyone else; all that an accounts’ followers…
There are some big Facebook changes coming soon in 2019, with the company’s focus shifting to community and privacy. Along with a new mission, Facebook also announced a brand new logo and a complete redesign of their web and mobile apps at F8, along with a lightning-fast Messenger app, featuring end-to-end-encryption on the mobile app and the…
In an email distributed to YouTube Premium subscribers, the company confirmed that access to YouTube’s original programming will no longer be exclusive to Premium customers after September 24th, 2019. Instead, many of YouTube’s Originals series, movies and live events will be offered to all YouTube viewers for free, supported by ads. Premium members, however, can watch the…
Over the past year, we’ve gotten almost one new Story feature per month with only a few exceptions, and this month we got the Chat Sticker! Here’s how they work: Users add the “Chat” sticker to their Story, which essentially invites followers to request to join a new group chat in Direct based on that Story.…
We’ve all known that Facebook owns Instagram and the messaging app WhatsApp for a while (read: since both companies were first acquired by the social media juggernaut), but now it seems like Facebook really wants to make it obvious for anyone who didn’t get the memo. This has resulted in a minor rebranding, with Instagram…