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Twitter launches disappearing 'fleets' worldwide

Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters
Posted at Nov 18 05:55 PM

Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it was globally launching tweets that disappear after 24 hours, similar to the stories feature that is popular on Snapchat and Facebook's photo-sharing app Instagram.  Read more »

TikTok urges social media alliance against suicide content

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 22 09:45 PM

TikTok on Tuesday proposed an alliance with nine other social media platforms to work collectively and rapidly to remove suicide content, following an incident this month when a man killed himself on Facebook. Read more »

Almost half of adult Filipinos use internet, nearly all users have Facebook accounts: SWS

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 08 05:25 PM

SWS reported that based on its fourth quarter survey last year, 45 percent of adult Filipinos use the internet. Read more »

TikTok rivals do battle for hearts of teen video producers

Manon Billing, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Aug 12 08:53 PM

Triller, Byte, Dubsmash and now Instagram -- there's no shortage of rivals circling to grab a slice of troubled TikTok's teen-centric platform for short-form videos, but can any of them come out on top? Read more »

Snapchat curbs Trump posts for inciting 'racial violence'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 04 05:02 AM

Snapchat on Wednesday stopped promoting posts by US President Donald Trump, saying they incite "racial violence." Read more »

Facebook, Snapchat join chorus of companies condemning George Floyd death, racism

Reuters
Posted at Jun 01 10:49 PM

Facebook Inc and Snap Inc became the latest US companies condemning racial inequality in the United States as violent protests flared up across major cities over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died while in police custody in Minneapolis last week. Read more »

Trump, Biden turn to new presidential campaign field: Snapchat

Camille Camdessus, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 27 11:14 AM

Gone are the lively meetings, the distribution of flyers on busy campuses. The coronavirus pandemic has put an abrupt stop to traditional US political means of courting young voters -- forcing presidential candidates to turn to Snapchat instead.   Read more »

Snapchat outage shuts out sheltering consumers for hours

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 09 06:56 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - The Snapchat application popular with young smartphone users went offline Wednesday for undetermined reasons, the company said. Read more »

Iniiwasan ng anak sa social media? Eksperto may mga payo

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 21 05:55 PM

Sa takot, minsang nagpapasya ang ilang anak na layuan ang kanilang mga magulang sa social media.  Read more »

Google tightens political ads policy to thwart abuse

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 21 10:54 AM

Examples of banned ad material included ads or links to information making demonstrably false claims that could undermine voter trust or participation in elections. Read more »

Facebook's Instagram launches Snapchat-like 'Threads' app

Reuters
Posted at Oct 04 08:25 AM

Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was launching a separate camera-first messaging app, "Threads", for its photo-sharing platform Instagram, stepping up the company's social media war with smaller rival Snapchat. Read more »

Privacy group says tech giants not delivering on political ads pledges

Elizabeth Culliford, Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 09:25 AM

Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet's Google have failed to provide adequate transparency for global users around political advertising on their services, a privacy advocacy group said on Tuesday. Read more »

Pinay caregiver, boyfriend accused of harassing dementia patient on Snapchat

Connie Macatula-De Leon, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 20 05:04 AM

GLENVIEW, Illinois—A Filipina nursing worker and her boyfriend were accused of harassing a dementia patient at a nursing home in Glenview, Illinois.   Read more »

Google server trouble snarls YouTube, Snapchat

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jun 03 12:28 PM

Google acknowledged the issue, writing in a statement on its Cloud Platform status page that it was dealing with "high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube." Read more »

TINGNAN: Mga politiko bumalik sa pagkabata ang itsura

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 21 09:12 PM

Patok ang paggamit ng filter sa isang smartphone app na magbabalik sa isang tao sa hitsura niya sa kaniyang kabataan. Read more »

As TikTok videos take hold with teens, parents scramble to keep up

Selim Chtayti, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 26 04:20 PM

Millions of teenagers seeking their 15 seconds of fame are flocking to TikTok, but many of their parents are only now learning about the express-yourself video app -- often to their dismay.  Read more »

Snapchat parent pressured by drop in users

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 26 08:15 AM

Snapchat parent Snap came under selling pressure Thursday after a quarterly report showing a loss of one million users even as it grew revenues and narrowed losses. Read more »

US teens prefer remote chats to face-to-face meeting: study

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 11 09:23 AM

NEW YORK - American teenagers are starting to prefer communicating via text instead of meeting face-to-face, according to a study published Monday by the independent organization Common Sense Media. Read more »

Snapchat aims to spread reach to other apps

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 15 10:41 AM

Snapchat messaging service on Thursday set out to spread its reach, and panache, to other smartphone apps with a software kit that promised to share little data about users. Read more »

Snapchat dials back redesign that riled users

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 14 08:39 AM

Snapchat got some of its old look back on Friday in an update to a major redesign that riled users and caused growth to stumble. Read more »