If at first you don’t succeed… Twitter announced Wednesday an update to its ongoing effort to pare back the volume of what it deems to be toxic replies sloshing around the social media platform. Specifically, starting May 5 on the Twitter iOS app and shortly thereafter on the Android app, English-language users may be shown…
Even as social media companies improve their accessibility features, there’s still a lot of work to be done before we get to universal access. We talked to social media creators and disability advocates Chrissy Marshall and Molly Burke about how companies and creators can bridge accessibility gaps. Read more… More about Mashable Video, Social Media,…
TikTok no longer considers “Asian women” a dirty phrase. The video sharing app has fixed an issue that censored the term in its automatic captions, saying that it was an “error.” TikTok introduced automatic captions in early April, testing it in the U.S. and Japan with the intent to eventually roll it out more widely.…
The front page of the internet may be getting a voice. Reddit is quietly exploring a new feature that would enable moderator-run voice chats, possibly similar to Clubhouse, according to a source familiar with the company’s plan. Development is still in the early stages, and was described as confidential. We reached out to Reddit multiple…
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One of the new VIP audio chat platforms won’t be invite-only for long. Twitter is planning to roll out its Twitter Spaces feature to every user in April. The company has been testing out Spaces, its live audio Clubhouse competitor, since late last year. Clubhouse has taken the social media space by storm over the…
Clubhouse, the invite-only, audio-based iPhone app, has gotten a lot of buzz, but as it gets more popular, concerns about user’s privacy and security have also grown. Here’s what you should keep in mind before downloading Clubhouse. Read more… More about Privacy, Mashable Video, Social Media, Clubhouse, and Audio App
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Clubhouse has a safety problem. The invite-only social media app, which lets people gather in audio-only “rooms” for free-flowing discussions, is in the midst of an explosive growth spurt. With reportedly over 10 million users as of mid-February, the demand for accounts is so high that people are trying to sell them for as much…
Minneapolis, Minn. approved a unique program on Friday. The city will pay social media influencers to spread “approved messages” during the trials of the police officers charged with killing George Floyd. The Minneapolis City Council passed the program, “contracts with community organizations for public safety and engagement services,” with the intent of curbing misinformation around…