Category: socialmedia

Instagram is testing personal fundraisers in the US, UK and Ireland

[ad_1] The personal fundraiser trial starts today on Android in those three countries and it’ll be available on iOS soon. If you’re 18 or older and you’re in an eligible country, you can get started by accessing the Add Fundraiser option from the Edit Profile settings. You’ll be asked to select a photo, fundraiser category […]

Instagram rolls out pinned comments to everyone

[ad_1] Instagram is giving users some more control over the conversation on their photos and videos. It started testing pinned comments in May alongside its comment filtering tools, and now it’s rolling out the feature to everyone. Today we’re rolling out pinned comments everywhere. ? That means you can a pin a few comments to […]

Opera has baked Twitter into its desktop browser

[ad_1] The latest version of Opera has just been released and, with it, a faster way for you to share your thoughts with the world as Twitter is now baked into the sidebar. You can access your main feed, search and direct messages without having to open a new tab and fire up the Twitter […]

San Francisco’s 25-year-old FogCam shuts down this month

[ad_1] FogCam’s creators, Jeff Schwartz and Dan Wong, known online as Webdog and Danno, announced the shutdown on Saturday. “The Internet has changed a lot since 1994, but Fogcam will always have a special place in its history,” the two wrote on Twitter. In an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Schwartz added additional context […]

New York AG is investigating Facebook over email contact scraping

[ad_1] Facebook claims 1.5M contact databases were harvested by its email verification process, but the total number of people whose information was improperly obtained may be hundreds of millions. It’s time Facebook be held accountable for how it handles consumers’ personal info. — NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) April 25, 2019 Facebook said the data collection […]