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In one of Jenny Krupa's TikTok videos, her neighbor has been hurt. Krupa's concern? She wants to see "if the paramedics are hot." In another video, she lets a man who ghosted her know she's TikTok famous - and he "really screwed up."A goofy scenario in yet another - involving a spat with her best friend and an "arrest" - turns out to be a sponsored post for the Paramount Pictures movie "80 for Brady." Krupa, an influencer on TikTok, has a partnership with the studio. But she is not your typical social media personality.…

Social media algorithms can do wonderful things. They have the power to make or break careers, amplify political polarization (Facebook, Twitter), make people do dumb stuff for clicks, (YouTube), and supposedly promote Chinese Communist ideals to our children (TikTok, though that’s up for debate).Bluesky, though, is trying something different: You pick ’em. On May 26, the platform’s developers rolled out My Feeds, a feature that lets people decide what they see. There are 50 such feeds available on the platform, which is…

The invasion of chatbots has disrupted the plans of countless businesses, including some that had been working on that very technology for years (looking at you, Google). But not Artifact, the news discovery app created by Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. When I talked to Systrom this week about his startup—a much-anticipated follow-up to the billion-user social network that’s been propping up Meta for the past few years—he was emphatic that Artifact is a product of the recent AI revolution, even…

BeReal dropped a new feature to help users better connect with their friends by using RealMoji reactions or RealChat. The addition seems similar to Instagram, as BeReal seems to compete with the platform to stay in the social media limelight.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsRealChat will provide “a space to privately and authentically share and react to each other’s BeReal, share a unique BeReal to stay connected with their close friends,” a BeReal spokesperson said in an email to Gizmodo. The shift will not only allow…

Instagram head Adam Mosseri released a lengthy video late Wednesday explaining the social network’s ranking algorithms and addressing potential concerns of shadowbanning. The at-times-technical, nine-minute video comes just weeks ahead of the rumored launch of Instagram’s new, decentralized text-based Twitter clone. Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsOn the issue of shadowbanning—which Mosseri previously said doesn’t exist on Instagram—he tried to pour cold water on rumors saying Instagram suppresses users’ content if they…

FOMO has people scrambling and pleading to join the exclusive Bluesky. FOMO has people scrambling and pleading to join the exclusive Bluesky. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not want us to publish your…

TikTok’s fate hangs in the balance. But what is already clear is that the app has changed social media for good—and in a way that will make life harder for incumbent social apps. In less than six years TikTok has weaned the world off old-fashioned social-networking and got it hooked on algorithmically selected short videos. Users love it. The trouble for the platforms is that the new model makes less money than the old one, and may always do so. View…

Image Source : PIXABAY WhatsApp introduces a global security centre to safeguard users WhatsApp, a Meta-owned social media platform launched a new global security centre for users to learn more about how to protect themselves against spammers and unwanted contact, as it faces scrutiny over the menace of international spam calls and messages. The company has developed…

Meta lashed out at its home state on Wednesday, threatening to shut off access to news links on Facebook and Instagram in California if the legislature passed a bill forcing it to pay news publishers for their journalism.Meta's Apparent Firing GoofThe proposed bill, dubbed the California Journalism Preservation Act, would force social networks like Facebook and Instagram or search engines like Google to pay news publishers a “journalism usage fee” when users access articles and when they sell advertising against news…

Gideon: I find it so much work to get started on a new platform, you know, to follow people and figure out what I want to prioritize and post things there. Uh, so I can't really say that I've used them. I've tinkered, but that's about it. Lauren: Yeah. My workflow now is I, I publish a story or a podcast on WIRED. I open Twitter, I share it, and then I'm like, where's my Bluesky login again? And then I do that. And I'm like, oh, right, T2, where I think I have, you know, four followers and I do that and then I craft…