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Threads, Meta's social media platform, is reportedly planning to introduce a feature that resembles Twitter's Direct Messaging (DMs). This feature will allow users to privately send messages within the same platform. Initially, Instagram CEO…

Last updated: July 6th, 2023 at 07:56 UTC+02:00 Instagram has launched a new social networking app called Threads. It competes with Twitter and offers many of the same features, including posting text-focused updates along with images and videos. The Threads app has been launched in 100 countries worldwide, and it can be used on Android and iOS smartphones. Threads app by Instagram is now available on Android and iOS The Threads app allows users to post updates with up to 500 characters of text, along with up to 10…

In a time when blue checkmarks are the source of arguments and contention, Gmail has elected to give itself an official — you guessed it — blue checkmark. This distinguisher comes as part of the email system’s Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) feature, which arrived in 2021. At that time, the feature required authentication and verification of brand logos in order to use said logos as avatars in Gmail. Now, BIMI is adopting blue checkmarks to help distinguish genuine senders from malicious…

Jack Dorsey is taking another whack at a Twitter-like service with a new social media platform called Bluesky.The service is gaining traction among Twitter power users, attracting prominent personalities including U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Bluesky, which bears similarities to the blue bird platform, is the latest in a long list of apps that are looking to steal Twitter's thunder after Elon Musk's chaotic takeover of the company. Here are some details on the service:What is Bluesky?It's a text-focused…

Jack Dorsey is taking another whack at a Twitter-like service with a new social media platform called Bluesky.The service is gaining traction among Twitter power users, attracting prominent personalities including US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Bluesky, which bears similarities to the blue bird platform, is the latest in a long list of apps that are looking to steal Twitter's thunder after Elon Musk's chaotic takeover of the company. Here are some details on the service:What is Bluesky?It's a text-focused…

Bluesky, Jack Dorsey's alternative to Twitter, is now available by invitation only on Android devices after arriving on the App Store in February, The Verge reported. The app has a number of Twitter-like functions, letting you search for and follow other users, create posts (with photos) and more. It's currently in beta, though, so has a limited number of users (reportedly around 25,000) and is missing features like direct messages.  Bluesky first came about in 2019 as a Twitter-backed side as a new type of decentralized…

Facebook parent Meta is reportedly building a dedicated Twitter-like social media application for people to post text-based updates. According to Platformer, citing sources, the project is codenamed "P92", which will let users log in through their existing Instagram credentials. MoneyControl was the first to break this development. "We`re exploring a standalone decentralised social network for sharing text updates. We believe there`s an opportunity for a separate space where creators and public figures can share timely…

Twitter, more specifically Elon Musk, got a lot of flack for making the verification badge a Twitter Blue perk. It also led to some major financial repercussions. So, what is Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to do? Well, Meta just confirmed its own verification badge.If you’re unfamiliar with what’s been going on with Twitter, when Elon Musk took over, he made the sought-after verification an automatic perk of the Twitter Blue subscription. This means that if you subscribe, you’re instantly verified. That pretty much defeated…

Apple has removed a social media app from its Chinese App Store following demands by the local government.Damus, an app designed to access the Nostr social media network, had already struggled to get into the App Store in the first place following rejections by App Store review. But a demand from the Chinese government means the app has now been removed from the App Store in that country.Apple says that the app includes content that is illegal in the country.Illegal contentDamus developer William Casarin shared a…

Instagram will soon begin testing a repost feature that is tipped to be a lot like the one available on Twitter, a report stated citing a spokesperson from the social media platform. The testing will apparently be done with a select number of Instagram users. The first mention of this feature surfaced last week when a social media consultant spotted it on Instagram Head Adam Mosseri's profile and shared a screenshot. The development comes as Twitter is also reported to be working on adding support for sharing tweets on…