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Twitter has taken another step in protecting its users from harassment, this time targeting explicit content posted without consent or so-called "revenge porn." Twitter made a c...

Can Twitter Have Facebook-Like Success With Video?

Video has become huge for Facebook, and Twitter is hoping it can follow a similar path. Autoplay has certainly lent itself well to Facebook's success, and it sounds like Twitter is...

Facebook Confirms It’s Removing ‘Feeling Fat’ Emoji Following Petition

UPDATE: Facebook has confirmed it's removing the option. "We’ve heard from our community that listing 'feeling fat' as an option for status updates could reinfo...

Twitter Is Playing Whack-a-Mole with ISIS Accounts

Twitter has ramped up its own war with the so-called Islamic State, suspending more and more pro-ISIS accounts with every passing month. A recent report from...

Your Facebook Page May Soon Lose Some Likes

Facebook announced that it is making changes to the way Page likes are counted, as it removes memorialized and voluntarily deactivated accounts from Pages' like counts. In other wo...

Instagram Just Gave Brands a New Photo Feature That Regular Users Would Love

Instagram is testing a new way for brands to deliver ads on the network, and it's something that the average user would probably kill to have access to. The company has just an...

Facebook’s ‘Feeling Fat’ Status Draws Ire, Petition

Last year, Facebook added the ability to supplement your normal status updates with emojis linked to certain feelings and activities. There are now hundreds of options. But a c...

Waze Adds AMBER Alerts

Thanks to a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the Google-owned Waze traffic app will now feature AMBER alerts. "As of this writing, AMBER...

Twitter Gives Websites Video Embeds

Twitter announced the launch of a new embedded video widget, which enables people to embed Twitter-hosted videos on their websites, utilizing the same JavaScript used by tweet butt...

Tinder Plus Is Here, Will Cost More for Older Users

Calling someone who's 30 "older" is weird, especially as I approach that age – but in Tinder land 30 is officially old. Tinder has just launched its Tinder Plus premium service...

Should Photos Still Be Part of Your Facebook Strategy?

Last month, SocialBakers shared some interesting findings about how differ...

ISIS Threatens to Kill Jack Dorsey, Twitter Employees

This weekend, someone writing on behalf of ISIS threatened Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and all Twitter employees, calling on supporters to not "allow any one of the atheists to...

Google Isn’t Banning Porn on Blogger After All

If you post your own sexually explicit content on Blogger, Google's gonna let you do you. Just don't use blogger as a hub for commercial porn. Google has reversed...

Twitter Says It’s Tripled the Team Handling Abuse Reports

Twitter has a big problem with abuse. Ever...

Facebook Now Offers Infinite Gender Options

Facebook has finally opened up the floodgates on gender options. Starting today, you can identify yourself however you wish. There are no limits on what you can type in as your...

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