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Bluesky Reaches 13M Users, Announces New Funding

Bluesky Reaches 13M Users, Announces New Funding

While Meta’s Threads has long been considered the most obvious successor to Twitter, in the wake of Elon Musk’s changes at the app, Bluesky is also emerging as a potential challenger in the real-time social space, with the platform today…

Instagram Announces Halloween-Themed Activations

Instagram Announces Halloween-Themed Activations

Instagram has announced some spooky features for Halloween, including keyword-triggered animations in DMs, Stories templates, a Halloween font, and more. First off, Instagram’s added some “secret” Halloween-themed keywords in DMs and Notes which will activate effects and animations. As you…

WhatsApp Expands Private Mentions in Status to All Users

WhatsApp Expands Private Mentions in Status to All Users

WhatsApp’s rolled out its new “Private Mentions” for Status to all users, which provides another way to generate interest in your temporary updates. WhatsApp Status, the messaging app’s variation of Stories, enables you post photos and videos that disappear after…

TikTok Reports EU User and Moderation Staff Numbers

TikTok Reports EU User and Moderation Staff Numbers

TikTok has shared its latest EU audience and staffing numbers, as part of its DSA disclosure reporting, which provides some interesting notes on moderation, user growth and more in the region The latest report covers the period between January and…

Is Meta’s Anti-Politics Stance a Sustainable Strategy?

Is Meta’s Anti-Politics Stance a Sustainable Strategy?

Meta’s anti-politics stance could end up causing it as many headaches as allowing political discussion, with more questions being raised as to how the company decides what’s “political” and what’s not, and how that impacts the user experience. This week,…