Twitter may soon make photos just a tiny bit wider on mobile. Noted tech detective Jane Manchun Wong revealed on Thursday that Twitter appears to be developing a new timeline layout for its mobile app. Rather than the current format that gives images a margin around them, the new layout will make pictures large enough…
Clubhouse’s leaked text messaging feature has finally officially arrived. Called Backchannel, the new messaging system allows users to talk to each other via the written word, just like in practically every other social media app that came before it. Tech is a circle. The audio-based app announced its new feature in a blog post on…
Twitter knows sometimes you need to change your tweets after the fact. On Tuesday, the company announced a new feature that allows users to retroactively restrict who can respond to specific tweets. The thinking, according to a Twitter spokesperson, is that sometimes users don’t realize their tweets are going to draw heat until it’s too…
Unlike most social media platforms, Instagram allows you to change your username. Whether you’ve actually changed your name or just fancy something different for a while, it’s quick and easy to alter your Instagram username, both on the .com desktop version of Instagram and in mobile apps. Here’s how to change your username on Instagram.…
Instagram is a bit of an anomaly in the social media marketplace in that it doesn’t offer a native option to share other users’ content. While you can easily retweet on Twitter, or hit the “Share” button on Facebook, Instagram gives you no such choices. Instagram maintains this is a strategy to protect copyright and…
At some point, imitation is no longer a form of flattery. GETTR, the Twitter clone helmed by Donald Trump’s former spokesperson Jason Miller, ran into additional trouble Saturday when it lost the ability to automatically import tweets directly from Twitter. So claimed Miller, who announced the latest setback for his fledgling social media platform via…
It’s not Twitter, it’s you. The social media company announced on Friday plans to more thoroughly explain why certain users don’t meet its requirements for verification. It seems Twitter wants them to know why, in painfully specific detail, they failed in their quest for the elusive blue check. “We’ve heard your feedback that we can…
So, you’ve built up a following on Twitter and are now looking to cash in, huh? Unfortunately, you’ve picked the wrong social network. Unlike YouTube, Facebook, and even TikTok, Twitter does not have a program where it pays creators for content. There’s no monetizing videos and getting a cut of the ad revenue on Twitter…
GETTR, the newest pro-Trump social network, was hacked on launch day and is currently banning furries. That’s right, while you were celebrating America’s independence on July 4, the latest right-wing social media platform was celebrating its official launch…and getting hacked. (More about the furries later.) GETTR, the new “free speech” social media platform run by…
Sometimes feedback in the form of comments is welcome on Facebook posts. Other times, not so much. For those moments you may be wondering how to turn off commenting on your Facebook posts, the short answer is: You can’t. Facebook states: “Unfortunately, the functionality to disable comments on your posts is not currently available. Anyone…