Facebook app βSparkedβ to bring kindness to dating
In a ruthless age of dating, where potential suitors are mercilessly swiped by and matches routinely ghosted, Facebook is promoting a kind approach to speed-dating with its new app βSparked.β Getting into dating these days is easier than ever, thanks to a multitude of free apps such as Tinder, Bumble,...
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Facebook unveils its Clubhouse competitor βHotlineβ with beta test
Hot on the heels of Clubhouse and wanting to gain a slice of the burgeoning audio chat market, Facebook is finally showing its hand with βHotlineβ beta tests. Well... that didnβt take long, did it? Clubhouseβs meteoric rise over the last year has cemented ephemeral audio chat as the hottest new...
Clubhouse users can soon make in-app donations to creators
As the latest part of its monetisation efforts, Clubhouse will allow users to make donations to their favourite creators. The flagship audio app wonβt take a cut of payments. Itβs been quite the inaugural year for flagship audio chat app Clubhouse. Already numero uno in the audio chat space, Facebook...
The Biden administration looks to bring βvaccine passportsβ to the US
With talk of overseas travel and big entertainment events returning in the not so distant future, the Biden administration is pushing digital apps to credentialise those who have been vaccinated. If youβre planning a holiday to or from the US in the next few years, you may have to bring...
Facebookβs donation tools raise $5bn for worthy causes
Through public donation tools on both Facebook and Instagram, Zuckerberg claims more than $5 billion has been raised in non-profit fundraisers. The pandemic has definitely been something of a double edged sword for Facebook. With folk condemned to their homes across the globe over the last 12 months, engagement has risen...
Facebook considered least secure social media site
A recent study suggests that Facebook is considered to be the least secure social media platform, despite TikTokβs ties to China and longstanding controversies. Before receiving the results from the latest tech surveys youβd be forgiven for thinking that TikTok takes the crown as the least secure social media...
Clubhouse opens monetisation opportunities to creators
With other big players circling to take advantage of the audio chatroom space, Clubhouse is now opening monetisation opportunities to keep its creators in house. Clubhouse is fast discovering that thereβs no such thing as a USP patent in the social media space. But as user incentives go, free stuff and dollars in the bank is good way of keeping people onside. As Twitter and Facebook lurk in...
How βvirtual escape roomsβ are helping students enrol during Covid-19
Thanks to Covid-19, enrolling at new schools has become a challenging process on all fronts. With campus tours and face-to-face interviews off the table, admissions officers are now evaluating prospective students through virtual escape rooms. It turns out βescape roomβ experiences have uses beyond bringing workmates together for novel team bonding sessions, or inspiring the naff horror movies on Netflix. Covid-19 rapidly changed the landscape for schooling throughout 2020. Social distancing...
Twitter jumps on the audio chat bandwagon with βSpacesβ
Ephemeral audio chat platforms are seriously striking a chord with Gen Z in early 2021. Twitter is now looking to get in on the act with βSpaces.β There may be some truth in the notion that lockdown has made us all a tad lazier, because big social networking platforms are all about audio recently β who has the time to type anymore? The latest to hop on-board the burgeoning trend is...
Plots of Amazon rainforest illegally sold through Facebook ads
As deforestation becomes an increasingly pertinent issue for the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous peoples, a new exposΓ© reveals plots of land are being illegally sold through Facebook ads. Recently, it seems every passing week throws out a new troubling story about threats to the Amazonβs biodiversity and its indigenous peoples. Forced to contend with the worst wildfires in a decade over the last two years, and facing the potential...
