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How to manage your Instagram notifications on iPhone and email
Getting too many or too few notifications or emails from Instagram? Learn how to explore your Instagram notification settings and customize them to pause all alerts or get only the ones that matter to you.
Twitter is working on an Undo Send timer for tweets
Twitter may soon let you retract a tweet you just sent to fix a typo, make edits or cancel it altogether. That's according to reverse engineering app researcher Jane Manchun Wong who has managed to unearth a work-in-progress interface for an unreleased Undo Send feature.
How to see who viewed your Instagram story (even after 24 hours)
Curious who is looking at your stories? In this tutorial, we'll show you how to see how many people viewed your Instagram story and the usernames of those who did.
Instagram’s new broadcast feature allows four people to go live at once
Facebook-owned Instagram today unveiled a new live broadcast feature, dubbed Live Rooms, that lets you go live on the service with up to three people. Before the change, you could go live with only one other person in a live broadcast stream.
Facebook’s feature for downloading account data picks up new capabilities and design
Facebook has given its feature for downloading account data, dubbed “Access Your Information”, a fresh new coat of paint whilst adding several new capabilities, including seeing how the social network has used your information to personalize your experience.
WhatsApp’s data sharing with Facebook has prompted an antitrust investigation in Turkey
WhatsApp's surprised users by announcing deep data-sharing integration with Facebook with no opt-out whatsoever, and now the move has attracted regulatory scrutiny in Turkey.
WhatsApp’s new privacy policy forces you to accept significant data sharing with Facebook
WhatsApp has silently updated its service terms and privacy policy in a way that enables the sharing of a significant amount of user data with Facebook, WhatsApp's parent company.
Twitter snaps up Breaker, a podcast app focused on social interaction
Twitter has acquired the iOS and Android podcast app Breaker for an undisclosed sum to double-down on the creation of new experiences for the Twitter community.
Social Composer lets jailbreakers update social media and share messages from anywhere in iOS
Social media has become such an integral part of peoples’ day to day lives that you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone without an app from this category on their smartphone or tablet. Be it Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, or something else not listed here, the simple fact is many make use of these online tools in an effort to keep in touch with one another when they’re otherwise out of touch.
Twitter kills off Reddit-style threaded conversations following user backlash
Twitter has rolled back threaded replies because they made conversations harder to read. The vast majority of people who were included in a recent test of this feature considered threaded replies too difficult to use, prompting the company to pull the feature.
How to turn Dark Mode on or off in Facebook and Messenger on iPhone
Learn how to manually turn Dark Mode on or off in Facebook and Messenger on your iPhone, or have them follow your device’s Dark Mode settings.