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Instagram down? You are not alone; Instagram is down for everyone. Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook. Yes, the photo and video-sharing social networking service Instagram has been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing its website and applications to go offline. According to the Instagram’s outage map displayed on DownDetecter, […]
The cop thought he was talking to an underage girl but it was a grown-up man using Snapchat’s gender filter. A 20-year old student from California’s San Francisco Bay Area used the much-criticized gender-swapping filter of Snapchat to catch a 40-year old police officer. According to Ethan, who studies in a California college, the cop […]
Entering the U.S. will be more complicated than ever. Specialists from the IICS cybersecurity training reported that the U.S. State Department will request those who wish to enter the country for their social media profiles, email addresses and phone numbers used for the last five years. This decision will impact about 15 million people who […]
The U.S Navy proposes to come up with a global social media archive of a totally unprecedented scale. The social media archive that the U.S Navy researchers plan to create would comprise 350 billion of digital data records and would be part of the ongoing research efforts conducted through the Department of Defense and Analysis […]
Facebook-owned WhatsApp is an ad-free messaging service, but things are about to change from 2020 onwards. At the annual Facebook Marketing Summit held in the Netherlands, Facebook has confirmed that in-app ads will be displayed in the messaging app starting from 2020. Users will see ads within the ‘Status’ feature of WhatsApp as confirmed by […]
Facebook has recently announced two significant News Feed changes it’s bringing to the users. It adds to Facebook’s long going operation of “Make Facebook Great Again.” Basically, the company is trying to fix its reputation after the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. The first ranking factor is that the social network will prioritize who are your […]
While everyone is fully engulfed in blaming social media for all the negative impacts, a new study has something positive to say, suggesting that social media is not as bad as we think it is. According to a study conducted by researchers from Oxford University, it is hinted that social media is not responsible for […]
With every website these days have some form of tracking cookie, script or 3rd-party tracking service, seems like all of us Internet users have thrown personal privacy out of the window. With the growth of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, they started offering their login credentials as login credential for thousands of […]
MySpace says it happened during a server migration project. Last time the once prominent social network website MySpace made headlines in 2016 after it suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of 427 million users including emails and passwords was stolen and leaked online. Now, it has been revealed that MySpace has lost another trove of […]
Facebook says it’s aware of the situation and trying to fix the issue. Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook and its subsidiary company Instagram. Yes, Facebook and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing both platforms to go offline. According to the Facebook’s outage map displayed on DownDetecter, the scale of […]
An airline launched a challenge inviting participants to delete all their social network posts in exchange for the opportunity to win a year of free flights The JetBlue airline has launched an unusual challenge. According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the company offers a year of […]
With the upcoming elections, Indian officials want to ensure that social media platforms do not meddle with the results. As a precautionary step, Twitter India has been summoned by a parliamentary committee to discuss the topic of “Safeguarding citizens” rights. The social media platform has been called upon by an Information Technology committee. Anurag Thakur, the […]
You have probably met people or heard of them who claim they are feeling better after quitting social media platform. But does it really help? Participants were regularly asked to log their mood through text messages with the researchers, who also verified that the subjects actually kept their accounts inactive. It was found that the […]
Twitter wants to make the platform spam free, and in a bid to do so, the social media company has started cracking down on services that offer paid services to gain followers. Twitter has cut off API access to three such companies that are famous for helping users increase their number of followers using automated […]
The #10YearChallenge was fun when people shared their pictures one from today and one from a decade ago. It gained widespread traction on social media. Some made jokes, paid tribute to old hairstyles. Celebrities posted glamour shots from one decade to the next. People were posting pictures on Facebook and Instagram, which is owned by […]
In social media, the emergence of fake news and fake apps isn’t uncommon as thousands of these hoaxes keep circulating around the web to spread confusion among the users. Now, there is a new hoax doing the rounds and making headlines and it is called WhatsApp Gold Scam. Dubbed as WhatsApp Gold update, this hoax involves […]
Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook and its subsidiary company Instagram. Yes, Facebook and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing both platforms to go offline. According to the outage map displayed on DownDetecter, the scale of this outage can be seen affecting users in Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Italy, […]
Seven months back TechCrunch reported how Facebook secretly retracted messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives from their recipients’ inboxes. That’s a feature that normal Facebook users don’t have. Later Facebook reveals its plan to make an “unsend” feature available to all users in the coming month, and has already been considering how to […]
Facebook has made many efforts so far to refine its Messenger app. This year in May, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg along with other executives of the social network admitted that the Facebook Messenger has to be refined since the current app contained many useless features while lacked critically important ones. Such as, its UI could […]
You are not alone; the social media giant Facebook is down in many countries around the world for almost a half an hour starting from 6 pm (UK time). In some cases, Facebook’s site and application both are suffering an outage. The reason for this outage is currently unknown and there has been no statement […]
FBI has asked Facebook not to discuss who may be behind this attack. On September 28th, 2018 the social media giant Facebook announced that it suffered a massive data breach in which hackers stole access tokens of millions of accounts after exploiting a critical vulnerability in its “View As” feature. At that time, the estimate […]