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Twitter announces plans to discontinue Vine
Just ahead of Apple's 'hello again' keynote event Thursday morning, Twitter announced its plans to discontinue the video-looping social networking app we all know as Vine.
How to disable offensive content filtering for X (Twitter)
Are you unable to see some posts on your X timeline as they’re blurred out or behind a safety warning? Find out how to change a setting that gives you unrestricted access to all such sensitive public posts.
How to remove friends from Game Center on iPhone, iPad, or Mac
Learn how to remove friends added to your Game Center account if you no longer want to interact with them, see their game achievements, play games with them over FaceTime call, or have apps connect you with that particular friend for an improved multiplayer experience.
Facebook gains food/ticket ordering, collated friends’ recommendations for restaurants
Facebook today announced a new update for its iPhone and iPad mobile app focused on discovering new things in the world around you, deciding what to do or where to go and connecting with local businesses in easier and faster ways.
For starters, the app will now automatically collate recommendations for restaurants that your friends post on the service, identify posts asking for recommendations using artificial intelligence and even help you make reservations or appointments from within the app.
Facebook enhances 360-degree photos with initial viewport selection, album support & more
Facebook yesterday announced some overdue new features designed to elevate the user experience when it comes to posting 360-degree photos, which you have been able to upload to the service since June 2016.
Initially, the experience with these panoramic photos left a lot to be desired: you couldn't upload them to albums nor could you select the area in a 360-degree picture for others to see in their feed.
Both of these omissions have been addressed in the latest version of Facebook for mobile and desktop, the social networking behemoth has confirmed.
In time for NFL Thursday Night Football, Twitter launches live-streaming Apple TV app
Twitter's new live-streaming Apple TV app arrives just in time for NFL Thursday Night Football. Available at no charge in the tvOS App Store, it lets owners of the fourth-generation Apple TV stream both top Twitter/Vine videos and the 10 NFL games that the micro-blogging services recently acquired the rights to broadcast, plus content from Bloomberg News, Campus Insiders, Cheddar, MLB Advanced Media, NBA, Pac 12 Networks and other premium sources.
How to opt out of WhatsApp-Facebook account data sharing
As you may have heard, WhatsApp is starting to share some of users' account data with Facebook (things like your registered phone number and the last time you used the service) to improve targeted advertising and friend suggestions on Facebook and better fight spam on WhatsApp. Thankfully, you can easily opt out, right when the prompt goes up, or within 30 days of accepting the new terms, here's how.
WhatsApp begins sharing account data with Facebook to boost targeted advertising
Facebook-owned WhatsApp today updated its Terms and Privacy Policy for the first time in four years to reflect that the messaging service will start sharing select account data with Facebook in order to improve targeted advertising. Wait, does that mean that you're going to be inundated with ads on WhatsApp? In a word, no—at least for the time being. As per the amended terms of service, “We still do not allow third-party banner ads on WhatsApp.”
YouTube’s new Backstage section will let you share photos, polls, text & more with subscribers
Just as we're processing today's news regarding an upcoming video-sharing app from Apple, a new report claims Google is set to enhance YouTube's social experience in the fall by unveiling a new Backstage section in the mobile app and on the web.
According to VentureBeat, Backstage will let YouTube users share not just videos, but also photos, polls, links, text posts and more with their subscribers.
Bloomberg: Apple developing a new iPhone video-sharing app & deeper social ties in iOS
Bloomberg reported Thursday that Apple has been developing a brand new Snapchat-style video editing and sharing application that could launch in 2017 as a standalone download, as well as testing deeper social ties across iOS as part of a newly directed focus to integrate more social networking features within its mobile products. These moves are said to be a response to the success of social services like Facebook and Snapchat, according to people familiar with Apple’s strategy.
Facebook testing autoplaying videos with sound
What could be worse than those pesky autoplaying videos on Facebook? Autoplaying videos that begin playing audio automatically as you scroll past them in your News Feed, but of course! And that's precisely what Facebook is currently experimenting with, according to Mashable.
At the moment, the company is currently testing two methods of getting users to watch video with sound: one involving autoplaying videos with sound and the other with an Unmute button on the lower right corner of such videos.