Category: Social Media

Snapchat’s looking to become even more important to teen social life, by acquiring calendar-based social app Saturn, which enables users to share their schedules, and arrange meet-ups in the app. As you can see in these example screens, Saturn is primarily focused on making it easier for students to stay on track with their school…

Yeah, this doesn’t seem great. Over the weekend, X and xAI owner Elon Musk flagged a coming change to his Grok chatbot, in which the Grok development team will remove “politically incorrect, but nonetheless factually true” info from its data banks, in order to avoid the app essentially providing answers that Musk himself does not…

Is Google at risk of losing its online discovery crown to ChatGPT? Well, not yet. As you can see in this overview of online search traffic, put together by the team at Visual Capitalist, OpenAI’s chatbot still lags Google by a significant margin, and with Google also incorporating its own AI answers, it may still…

They might not be exactly what initial reports had suggested, but Meta has today announced its latest smart glasses, or “AI glasses” as it now prefers to call them, with a sports-aligned version created in partnership with Oakley. As indicated in the promo, which features a range of big-name sports stars, Meta’s Oakley HSTN glasses…

While many regions are pushing for new age limits on social media access, the key challenge remains that there’s currently no universal technology that enables platforms to verify user ages, nor a process in place that would definitively stop youngsters from accessing social apps. Over the last year, several European nations, including France, Greece and…

The saga continues… As expected, U.S. President Donald Trump has once again signed an executive order that will give TikTok a further 90 days to find a U.S.-based partner, in order to comply with a law which states that all entities owned by TikTok parent ByteDance are effectively banned in the nation. As per the…

Honestly, I have no idea whether X has now established stability, or is still on a fast-track to financial ruin at this point. Before the U.S. election last year, things were not looking great for the app, with declining revenue and usage taking it below the threshold of profitability, and putting it pretty clearly on…

YouTube has announced that it’s expanding access to Google’s VEO generative AI tools in the app later this year, which will enable more people to use AI to create YouTube Shorts clips, while it’s also shared a range of new usage insights as part of its presentation at the Cannes Lions Festival this week. Celebrating…

Are you one of Reddit’s 400 million or so weekly active users? The platform likely sees more usage than you’d expect, with many people now turning to Reddit for real, human insights on a range of topics, products, news stories, and more, with the platform’s crowd-sourced up and downvote system helping to amplify the most…

Facebook’s adding an extra level of log-in security, by enabling users to log in via Passkeys, which will provide another way to access your account without relying on passwords, or other less secure means. Passkeys, which enable fingerprint and face ID login, utilize cryptographic data transfer to facilitate access, with your actual login info remaining…