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Instagram head Adam Mosseri told Platfomer’s Casey Newton that the image and video sharing service was pausing its TikTok style redesign. The changes to the service included promoting short-form video, and displaying it full-screen like TikTok, while recommending posts from strangers. The company has seen widespread protests from users, including...

In response to criticism over the platform’s decision to switch to a TikTok-style feed for videos, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the layout was not very good and the company would have to work on the feature before shipping it to all users on the platform. Mosseri was responding to growing criticism of the redesigned feed, especially have...

Meta's future may lie in the metaverse, but when the company reports results on Wednesday, investors will be focused on two more immediate bets: pumping up short-video offering Reels to compete with TikTok and rebuilding its ads system after Apple throttled access to user data.

Companies have begun to utilise the massive reach that social media websites and apps offer, using TikTok users to promote their unhealthy food and beverages while turning them into brand ambassadors, according to a new study. Researchers analysed video content posted on the app to highlight that children are exposed to a variety of unhealthy food...

The girls - nine-year-old Arriani Jaileen and eight-year-old Lalani Walton - died by asphyxiation after participating in the 'blackout challenge' last year, according to the lawsuit filed by their families.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms is revamping the main feed on its Facebook app to prioritise "discovery" of new content, instead of posts from accounts users follow, in a bid to style its apps after short-form video competitor TikTok. 'Home', Facebook's main news feed tab that users will see when they open the app, will start heavily featuring popul...

TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has entered the lifestyle sector of social media with a new app, Kesong. After a string of hits from news aggregator Toutiao to short video app Douyin and its overseas equivalent TikTok, the Kesong app offers users shopping and lifestyle recommendations similar to Xiaohongshu, the current market leader.

The video was first posted on TikTok where it received almost 682,000 views and over 120,000 likes.

Popular video sharing platform TikTok has been formally warned by Italy’s data protection authority over an alleged breach of existing European Union privacy rules. TikTok recently informed its users that it would deliver targeted ads to them starting from July 13, whether or not they had provided consent to use data stored on their devices. Whil...

Two US Senators have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media app TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance, following a report saying the short video app permitted TikTok engineers and executives in China to repeatedly access private data of US users. "TikTok has never shared US user data with the Chinese government, nor ...

TikTok has reportedly written to the US senators to ensure that it was working on a final agreement with the Biden Administration that would "fully safeguard user data and US national security interests." The letter assured that the short video app was working with Oracle on "new advanced data security controls that we hope to finalise in the near ...

A husband-wife duo have left internet users in splits with their crisp and eccentric dance moves to iPhone text tones.

Khaby Lame, has surged past popular TikTok video creator Charli D'Amelio who currently has 142.3 million followers, according to a report. The 22-year-old's video content includes reacting to absurd life-hack videos and recreating the video himself to show an, even more, easier and more logical hack.

YouTube has claimed to have over 1.5 billion people monthly tune into its Shorts video service, which was launch almost two years back. The video sharing platform is now competing with TikTok in short clip formats.

Facebook is reportedly planning to alter its algorithm, layout, and more to tackle the growing competition from TikTok. The information was relayed to Facebook employees via an internal memo.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri told Platfomer’s Casey Newton that the image and video sharing service was pausing its TikTok style redesign. The changes to the service included promoting short-form video, and displaying it full-screen like TikTok, while recommending posts from strangers. The company has seen widespread protests from users, including...

In response to criticism over the platform’s decision to switch to a TikTok-style feed for videos, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the layout was not very good and the company would have to work on the feature before shipping it to all users on the platform. Mosseri was responding to growing criticism of the redesigned feed, especially have...

Meta's future may lie in the metaverse, but when the company reports results on Wednesday, investors will be focused on two more immediate bets: pumping up short-video offering Reels to compete with TikTok and rebuilding its ads system after Apple throttled access to user data.

Companies have begun to utilise the massive reach that social media websites and apps offer, using TikTok users to promote their unhealthy food and beverages while turning them into brand ambassadors, according to a new study. Researchers analysed video content posted on the app to highlight that children are exposed to a variety of unhealthy food...

The girls - nine-year-old Arriani Jaileen and eight-year-old Lalani Walton - died by asphyxiation after participating in the 'blackout challenge' last year, according to the lawsuit filed by their families.

Facebook parent Meta Platforms is revamping the main feed on its Facebook app to prioritise "discovery" of new content, instead of posts from accounts users follow, in a bid to style its apps after short-form video competitor TikTok. 'Home', Facebook's main news feed tab that users will see when they open the app, will start heavily featuring popul...

TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance has entered the lifestyle sector of social media with a new app, Kesong. After a string of hits from news aggregator Toutiao to short video app Douyin and its overseas equivalent TikTok, the Kesong app offers users shopping and lifestyle recommendations similar to Xiaohongshu, the current market leader.

The video was first posted on TikTok where it received almost 682,000 views and over 120,000 likes.

Popular video sharing platform TikTok has been formally warned by Italy’s data protection authority over an alleged breach of existing European Union privacy rules. TikTok recently informed its users that it would deliver targeted ads to them starting from July 13, whether or not they had provided consent to use data stored on their devices. Whil...

Two US Senators have called on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media app TikTok and Chinese parent ByteDance, following a report saying the short video app permitted TikTok engineers and executives in China to repeatedly access private data of US users. "TikTok has never shared US user data with the Chinese government, nor ...

TikTok has reportedly written to the US senators to ensure that it was working on a final agreement with the Biden Administration that would "fully safeguard user data and US national security interests." The letter assured that the short video app was working with Oracle on "new advanced data security controls that we hope to finalise in the near ...

A husband-wife duo have left internet users in splits with their crisp and eccentric dance moves to iPhone text tones.

Khaby Lame, has surged past popular TikTok video creator Charli D'Amelio who currently has 142.3 million followers, according to a report. The 22-year-old's video content includes reacting to absurd life-hack videos and recreating the video himself to show an, even more, easier and more logical hack.

YouTube has claimed to have over 1.5 billion people monthly tune into its Shorts video service, which was launch almost two years back. The video sharing platform is now competing with TikTok in short clip formats.

Facebook is reportedly planning to alter its algorithm, layout, and more to tackle the growing competition from TikTok. The information was relayed to Facebook employees via an internal memo.