Category: Social Media

TikTok has added an alt text option for still image posts as another means to maximize accessibility and engagement in the app. As you can see in these examples, shared by app researcher Radu Oncescu, there’s now an “Add alternative text” option within the photo post composer, providing a simple way to add text descriptions…

TikTok’s looking to help creators engage with their friends during their livestreams, via a new option that will highlight comments from your chosen profiles in-stream. As you can see in this example, shared by app researcher Jonah Manzano, you can now mark selected profiles during your stream, in order to highlight them if/when they comment…

Meta’s adding some new ways for businesses to engage with potential customers on WhatsApp, including business “broadcasts”, which will enable brands to pay to amplify their offers to people who’ve previously interacted with them. As you can see in this example, soon, businesses will be able to push promotions to people who’ve engaged with them…

X has shared some new data on the evolving fashion discussion in the app, though the data provided to support this is pretty questionable, and also a little unclear at points. As, unfortunately, has been the case with many of X’s communications. X starts out its fashion overview by presenting its contention that its platform…

This could end up prompting a significant escalation in already tense U.S. and EU relations. As reported by The New York Times, the EU Commission is currently finalizing plans to issue Elon Musk’s X with a penalty in the range of $US1 billion for violations of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA). As per NYT:…

Despite them not being scheduled for a consumer launch for some time yet, Meta has today provided some additional insights into its Orion AR glasses, which it views as the next major computing shift. In a series of slides posted to Threads, Meta has outlined some of the key technological advances that have gone into…

As we await word on TikTok’s fate in the U.S., the platform is also working to appease EU regulators, by separating EU user data from its Chinese home base, and providing more assurances that its operations remain entirely separate in this respect. On this front, TikTok has today provided an update on its “Project Clover”…

Social media has become a key connective tool, with billions of people logging on every day to get the latest updates, check in with friends, share important messages, and more. And that “more” includes shopping, and in particular, maintaining an awareness of the latest deals and offers from the brands that they love. That’s according…

Meta is super keen to highlight its commitment to open sourcing its AI technology, as part of a broader effort to advance the development of AI tools, and ensure optimal benefits from such. Though Meta itself also stands to benefit. By enabling developers to create with its Llama models, for example, it helps to establish…

With vintage sneakers becoming a major online trend, and a major trading opportunity for collectors, TikTok has announced that TikTok Shop merchants will now be able to sell pre-owned footwear, authenticated by vetted third parties, within the app. So now, you’ll be able to go direct from a video about classic kicks (or somebody trying…