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Twitter Founder Slams Instagram

With the recent news of Instagram now with more users than Twitter the companies co-founder, Evan Williams, had a lot to say to the press with his own comments: “If you think about the impact Twitter has on the world versus Instagram, it’s pretty significant. It’s at least apples to oranges,” ...

17 Dec
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INSTAGRAM NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Instagram Tops Twittter With Over 300M Users

Instagram passes Twitter with over 300 million users with Kevin Systrom, CEO of Instagram making the following announcement last week: “We’re proud to announce that there are now more than 300 million Instagrammers. Over the past four years, what began as two friends with a dream has grown into a global community that ...

15 Dec
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook Makes It Easier to Search your Friends Posts

Facebook Search finally gets an update. It majorly introduces a way you can search for posts by your friends and people/pages you follow. The update enables you to search and find any post you’ve seen before on facebook. This is not limited to posts only, photos, posts, videos, and links ...

9 Dec
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

WhatsApp becomes secure with addition of end-to-end encryption

The popular instant messaging app, WhatsApp, has recently added end-to-end encryption for the mobile app. This is seen as a way of ensuring high level of security to millions of users. The move was initiated by Open Whisper Systems, a mobile security company. It has created a partnership with WhatsApp ...

19 Nov
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Now there is an app for Facebook Groups

When Facebook released their earnings in October, they announced that they had reached a worthwhile 700 million Facebook users in groups, a figure that has grown past January’s 500 million. That’s majorly the reason why today Facebook launched Facebook Groups, a separate app for people to communicate and interact with ...

18 Nov
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APPS NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

You can now disable WhatsApp blue ticks and regain your sanity

Last week WhatsApp updated their messaging app with a feature that almost broke the internet, literally: the blue ticks which mean that your message has been read by the person you were chatting with. However, it seems that WhatsApp doesn’t want to be responsible for any cases of divorce and breakups, ...

18 Nov
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FACEBOOK SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook developing new “Facebook at Work” social network to compete with LinkedIn

Reports have it that Facebook is working on a new social network that will be called “Facebook at Work”. It will apparently allow users to separate their professional profiles from their personal Facebook profiles. The move is aimed at making employers embrace the social network and allow employees to use the ...

17 Nov
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NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Skype for Web enables video and voice calls via browser

Skype, one of the most popular video and voice calling solutions in the world is rolling out an update to enable new and existing users worldwide to make calls from the web browser. Previously, you were only able to use Skype after downloading the application to your desktop PC, tablet ...

15 Nov
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FACEBOOK NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Mark Zuckerberg brings free Internet access to Kenya

Facebook’s plan to connect the two-thirds of the world’s population without internet access is getting momentum after the announcement that Kenyans will now be able to access news, information and various communication services free of charge via the Internet.org’s app. Kenya becomes the third country to get free internet access after ...

11 Nov
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NEWS SOCIAL MEDIA

Snapchat’s first ad is a scary “Ouija” movie trailer

Snapchat published their first ad on the “Recent Updates” feed and it was really terrific and horrific. It’s a trailer of the new horror movie called “Ouija.” If you are a Snapchat user then you probably saw it. In case it didn’t appear on your timeline, check it out below: ...