News & Reviews: Social media
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May 17, 2024
Other platforms want to be TikTok, but TikTok also wants to copy other platforms. That's probably just the nature of businesses, so seeing TikTok testing out adopted features isn't unusual. Having said that, what do you think of longer TikTok videos?
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May 10, 2024
Do you often take screencaps on your game console to post straight to social media? If that's you, then this news might be relevant to you. Yesterday, Nintendo announced that Switch users will no longer connect straight to X. But why?
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May 04, 2024
For WhatsApp, we've seen it slowly transform from a pure messaging app to a new social media platform in its own right. The developer has been working hard lately, with a new feature to pin more messages added earlier this week. Now, there's another new feature for Communities.
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Mar 14, 2024
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has assured that the government has no plans to create new laws or specific Acts for the purpose of regulating social media platforms. Furthermore, he stressed that the government has never even announced any intention to draft such legislation.
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Mar 14, 2024
Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has assured that the government has no plans to create new laws or specific Acts for the purpose of regulating social media platforms. Furthermore, he stressed that the government has never even announced any intention to draft such legislation.
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Feb 01, 2024
Increasingly more people are on social media nowadays. But how many people are there? Most don't know unless they look at surveys or studies, so it's great that a new study was published to update netizens.
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Dec 27, 2023
The Ministry of Health (MOH) has announced that the authorities have blocked access to 1675 websites selling illegal pharmaceutical products in Malaysia. The action was taken under Operation Pangea XVI nationwide from 3 to 10 October, with various products worth over half a million ringgit also confiscated.
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Nov 30, 2023
The Ministry of Communications and Digital (KKD) revealed that it will summon several social media platform providers over inappropriate advertising content on their platforms. Its Minister, Fahmi Fadzil, said that discussions will be held aimed at getting clarifications concerning these ads.
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Oct 28, 2023
X (formerly Twitter) has been working hard on monetising its platform since Elon Musk took over. Earlier this week, Musk announced that a cheaper subscription tier would be available soon. That happened earlier today, as the company announced two new subscription plans.
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Aug 07, 2023
With X (Twitter) losing its user base, you'd think Threads was well-positioned to take over. But that's not the case, with the latter's daily active user count falling by over 80% within a month. Fortunately, an upcoming update could turn things around.
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