On a quiet Oscar Sunday in February 2011, Facebook pulled off one of the most calculated product changes in social media history. Without warning, without a ...
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Creative Tech Proposals: How People Use Technology to Propose
A marriage proposal has always been about timing, surprise, and the right moment. Long before smartphones and social media, people went to extraordinary lengths ...
Tech Platforms Killed by Bad Redesigns: From Digg v4 to Twitter’s Rebrand
A redesign is supposed to make a platform better. Sometimes it does. Sometimes it triggers the kind of user revolt that sends a company into a years-long spiral ...
How Artists Become Famous Using the Internet
The music industry has undergone a seismic transformation over the past two decades. Where aspiring artists once needed record label connections, radio play, ...
Viral Customer Service Moments That Built Brand Loyalty in the Social Media Age
In October 2011, a Reddit user named zambuka42 posted a screenshot of an Amazon customer service chat. The details were ordinary: a package shipped to his ...
Meta’s Acquisition Strategy: What Facebook Bought and What It Missed
In April 2012, a writer on this very site posed a question that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time: should Facebook buy Foursquare? Facebook had just ...
Your Business Needs 7 Social Media Accounts, Not Hundreds
Back in 2013, a common pitch from social media agencies went something like this: "We'll get your business listed on dozens of social networks." It sounded ...
The American Identity According to Social Media [Infographic]
Back in 2011, the question sounded almost philosophical: can a bunch of data about social networking actually help us understand the American people? Fifteen ...
Explore Beneficial and Harmful Effects of Social Media Use
There is no doubt about the impact of social media on society today. Social networks feed off the interactions among people and become more powerful as they ...
How to activate Two-factor authentication (2FA) on Twitter
In this age, where everything has gone digital, and the world runs on passwords, keeping oneself secure from passwords and data breaches has become a challenge ...
Clubhouse is bringing Spatial Audio for better user experience
On Sunday, 29 August, Clubhouse announced that their online chat rooms would now support spatial audio. With the promise of enhancing its audio functionality, ...
Snapchat recent upgrade brings a visual search feature
As part of its overhaul, Snapchat is upgrading its visual search engines to the center of its app. It has now rolled out the changes it announced during the ...
Instagram discontinues swipe up feature to access links
On August 30, Instagram will discontinue the "swipe-up" link in Instagram Stories. Since when viewers can direct their Stories to websites where they can learn ...
TikTok confirms it is testing Snapchat-like Stories feature
TikTok is also testing stories. Multiple users around the globe have spotted stories feature in their TikTok app. Every social media app seems to be copying ...
How to disable or delete an Instagram account
Social media can get overwhelming, and it's ok to take a break. You can either uninstall the Instagram app and enjoy offline life for a while, or you can ...
