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Facebook Oversight Board said on Friday it had extended the timeline for deciding whether to uphold former US President Donald Trump’s indefinite suspension from Facebook and Instagram. The board, created by Facebook in response to criticism over its handling of problematic content, wrote in a tweet that it would announce the decision in the coming

Cred’s viral ad starring Rahul Dravid as Indiranagar ka gunda has become a full meme, with other brands now spoofing it, including a funny ad by Gurugram-based rewards platform Magicpin. In the MagicPin version, actor Vijay Raaz makes fun of “bread”, and talks about how other apps give lakhs of points, but people are clueless

Twitter seems to be down for some people around the world. People in India are also affected. According to outage tracker DownDetector, the outage started at around 5.10pm IST. Earlier in the day at around 6am IST, there was a much larger global outage. Users trying to access their Twitter accounts in India are getting logged

Social media users were in for a treat recently, thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)’s latest photos. The American space agency shared some exquisite images of Earth, giving us a look at the natural systems of the planet. The pictures were taken from the vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS)

Dogecoin spiked nearly 400 percent in just the last one week. If you are on Twitter, you know there’s one billionaire capable of making or breaking the market at the drop of a tweet. It’s Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO. There are occasions he drops hints of what to do or not to

E-commerce giant Flipkart on Thursday announced that it was acquiring online travel aggregator Cleartrip. The Walmart-owned company did not disclose the acquisition amount. Cleartrip has been one of the most popular entities in India’s online travel space, and Twitter put up a befitting farewell to the original minds behind the company founded in 2006. Acknowledging

Clubhouse has been one of the biggest social media success stories of 2021. Despite having a limited audience, the app has gained over 10 million downloads and enjoyed what has seemed like endless growth. But many of the world’s biggest tech companies are working on alternatives to the platform. Despite its success, Clubhouse still has

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is launching an investigation into a resurfaced data leak that exposed the personal information of over half a billion users. Over the course of the investigation, the DPC will determine whether Facebook violated the EU’s personal data rights. The DPC Sets Its Sights on Facebook In early April 2021, the personal details of

After spending hours and hours scrolling through TikTok, and enjoying anything from amazing dance routines and elaborate skits to life hacks, you may get the urge to post your first TikTok video. Now that you’re seriously considering your path as a TikTok creator, why not get familiar with the newest trends? We’d like to introduce

For much of Twitter’s history, verified accounts seem to have been given more leeway than those without blue ticks. This is especially noticeable when it comes to high-profile politicians and world leaders. Following numerous cases of big accounts pushing boundaries on the platform, Twitter began questioning if it was too lenient. The social media giant

Facebook is testing a new business discovery tool that will appear under posts and ads in your News Feed. The feature will prompt you to select topics you’re interested in, and will then present you with recommended content from businesses based on your choices. Facebook Gives More Publicity to Businesses Facebook announced the business discovery tool

Over the last few years, tech giants have been trying hard to become more eco-friendly. Facebook committed to addressing climate change issues some time ago and the social network has already hit its renewable energy goal set back in 2018 and reached net-zero emissions. Facebook Becomes the World’s Largest Corporate Purchaser of Renewable Energy Climate

Over 533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data were recently leaked online, published for free on a widely-used hacking forum. Those affected Facebook users are spread across 106 countries and disclosed data includes phone numbers, full names, dates of birth, Facebook IDs, bios, and email addresses. So what actually happened in this Facebook data leak?

Facebook’s Oversight Board is still mulling over the fate of Donald Trump’s accounts on Facebook and Instagram. Although a ruling was expected in a matter of days, the Oversight Board now says that it will reach a final decision “in the coming weeks.” The Oversight Board Weighs the Status of Trump’s Accounts After the Capitol riots in January, Facebook

It seems like you can’t go long without seeing a news article related to a social network and data. LinkedIn is one of the latest names to experience such issues, with the data of two-thirds of its users scraped by hackers. But what exactly happened, and who benefits from such actions enough to do it

Canva, the popular graphics design service, will now allow users to directly schedule posts to Instagram. This is made possible with Canva’s Content Planner feature that is available to all Canva Pro users. Instagram Is the Latest Addition to Content Planner While the Content Planner feature has been around for a while, a lack of

Facebook beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly revenue on Wednesday and said it has seen “signs of stability” for sales in April after a plunge in March, in yet another signal that tech giants may weather the coronavirus-induced economic collapse better than other sectors. The announcement came a day after Alphabet’s Google said a drop in

TikTok, a popular short-video app, has achieved 2 billion downloads via Google Play Store and App Store. According to app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, the first quarter of 2020 has been the best so far for TikTok, as it managed to accumulate 315 million installs. While businesses continue to suffer and adjust to the new

Twitter will grant researchers and software developers access to a real-time data stream of tens of millions of daily public tweets about COVID-19, which they can use to study the spread of the disease or track misinformation, the company said in a blog post on Wednesday. Twitter said that this access could also be used

Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms where people get together to share photos and videos. This interaction is quantified by ‘likes’ and ‘comments’ on posts that are used by the platform to algorithmically highlight popular posts. Now, a team of researchers has found that not all of this engagement is organic.

WhatsApp has a massive userbase across the globe and its parent company Facebook has been trying to make it even more feature rich and easy to use. The company has been reportedly testing a multi-device feature that will allow users to have the same WhatsApp account on multiple devices at the same time. The feature

Facebook is witnessing a massive surge in its userbase owing to the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns placed in several countries. The company today announced that for the first time, more than 3 billion people were actively using the company’s platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger, on a monthly basis. It was also announced that Facebook

Facebook has been working on expanding the reach of its photo transfer tool to more regions and now, and it is now rolling out to users in United States and Canada. The tool lets users transfer their Facebook photos and videos directly to other services. As of now, it allows transferring to Google Photos. The

Reddit is rolling out a new feature that lets users engage in private group chats with each other. Reddit is a discussion forum made up of many different communities called subreddits. The new feature, named “Start Chatting”, randomly sorts users from a subreddit into a private group chat, where they can, well, start chatting! Reddit

Google Meet has become a popular video conferencing solution, adding roughly 30 lakh users every day. The platform, earlier known as Google Hangouts Meet, was initially known amongst large-scale organisations, enterprise customers, and establishments such as schools. However, with the spread of the coronavirus outbreak that has pushed a large number of people to start

Twitter swung to a loss in the past quarter as the global pandemic hit advertising revenue, even as the social platform saw a surge in new users. In its quarterly update Thursday, Twitter posted an $8 million (roughly Rs. 60 crores) loss while revenues edged up three percent to $808 million (roughly Rs. 6,065 crores)

While social media is great for keeping up with family and friends, you can easily share too much on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. A lot of people worry about what these companies will do with your data, but in reality, we give away more information ourselves than we think. In this article, we

Voice chat is now standard fare in video gaming communities. Gone are the days when you had to share a couch to socialize while playing. Why bother when you can stay at home and chat over the internet instead? However, with so many options available, you may be confused as to which one is right

Whether you have forgotten your password or you think your account has been hacked, in this step-by-step guide we’ll show you how to recover your Facebook account. Advertisement Facebook offers several automated ways to recover your account. Most of them depend on information you entered and validated when you set up your account. If you

It can be hard coming up with fun ideas for dates at the best of times. However, it’s even more difficult when you’re in a long distance relationship or just getting to know each other on a dating app. Advertisement That’s why we’ve put together this list of virtual date ideas. These are all activities