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Twitter Continues to Be Blocked for Fourth Consecutive Day

Twitter Continues to Be Blocked for Fourth Consecutive Day

The social media platform X, previously known as Twitter, is currently blocked for many users in Pakistan, and the government has not provided any explanation for the sudden shutdown since Saturday. This move follows the admission of election result rigging by the Rawalpindi Commissioner, who was later arrested and taken to an undisclosed location. Despite … Read more

Snapchat launches new ‘Shared Stories’ feature

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SAN FRANCISCO: Famous social media platform Snapchat has launched ‘Shared Stories’, a new way for Snapchatters to form a community around the content users affection to Snap.

Snapchat said that Shared Stories is a new iteration of Custom Stories, a feature that earlier allowed Snapchatters to make a Story and add friends to view and contribute.

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“Now, with our new and improved Shared Stories, Snapchatters who have been added to the group can add their friends as well, making it easier for the whole soccer team, camp squad, or group of new coworkers to get in on the fun,” Snapchat said in a blog post.

“Like with all of our products, we have built this feature to be safe by design,” it added.

Snaps sent to a Shared Story are automatically removed after 24 hours. Unlike regular friend Stories and Groups, the user will not find a chat component, stores all conversations between friends.

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Content is moderated with care, using a mixture of automatic language detection and a new community review option that empowers Snapchatters to be active in keeping Snaps in Shared Stories safe and fun.

“We also notify Snapchatters if they have joined a Shared Story with someone they have blocked. This gives Snapchatters the opportunity to leave the Shared Story, and ensures Snapchatters are always in complete control over who they share content with on our platform,” the firm said.

With this next-generation Story, Snapchat said it is expecting to help Snapchatters turn shared moments into shared memories.

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Netflix may clamp down on password sharing. Here’s what that means

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Netflix shares plunged this week after the platform mentioned its first subscriber loss in extra than a decade. One thing the corporation pointed to as hurting revenue: was large password sharing. Does this suggest the streamer is about to kick millions of viewers off shared bills? Not pretty. But it is able to imply that … Read more

Facebook opens virtual world app to public, inching toward metaverse

WASHINGTON, Dec 9, 2021 (AFP) – Facebook’s parent firm opened its Horizon Worlds virtual reality platform on Thursday to the public in North America, in a step toward building its metaverse vision for the future. Horizon Worlds is far from a fully realized metaverse, a future internet where online experiences like chatting to a friend would … Read more

WhatsApp is working to sync chat history on 4 devices

WhatsApp is working to sync chat history on 4 devices

WhatsApp will now enable its users to sync their chat history on at least four different devices. The popular social media platform has launched a new feature to allow its billions of users to sync their chat history easily. Currently, users can only use WhatsApp on a single device at a time and it is … Read more