News & Reviews:   Social media

Twitter first announced that it was looking into subscriptions earlier this year. The company wanted to let Twitter users monetise their content and started beta testing Super Follows in June. Now, it seems that Twitter is done with testing.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that misinformation can be deadly as the covid-19 virus. A huge amount of misinformation has been spread through social platforms such as Facebook and WhatsApp more than before due to the pandemic. To combat this, Facebook has been actively banning 3000 accounts (and counting), groups and pages from doing so.

A lot of people are big social media users, especially those who are younger. For the telco companies, this is a group of people that they also want to entice. Now, Digi has something new up its sleeve - a new package targeted at youngsters.

In recent months, YouTube and Instagram have released their own short video services. It's clear that the formula is popular, but some people do want slightly longer videos. As such, TikTok has decided to expand in the opposite direction.

If you recall, there was a leak last month revealing that Instagram had been working on direct posting from the desktop site. Of course, the company hasn't announced it yet. However, some users seem to have gotten access to it already.

Most of us love to browse the Internet uninterrupted, viewing what we like without pop-ups and ads. But companies don't live on free content, and Instagram wouldn't remain unmonetised forever. So get ready because more ads are coming to Instagram.

Earlier this year, Twitter unveiled a new subscription feature called Super Follows. The idea is to provide content creators (and Twitter) with another means to earn some extra income. Now, it seems the feature could be released anytime soon.

If you are an Instagram user, you must have hoped that the desktop site would let you do more. Currently, users can only interact with posts or edit your profile. But that could change, with the company possibly adding post creation.

Based on a statement by Clubhouse on notion.so, it seems that they have started rolling out beta version of the Clubhouse app to Android users. With that in mind, we can expect the clubhouse app to be officially available on Android within a few months.

Facebook wants you to stay in the app even when you want to listen to music by releasing this Spotify miniplayer. From now on, users can directly play songs shared by others from Spotify in the social media app without the need to switch to the music app. It’ll be available on both iOS and Android and in 27 markets with Malaysia being one of them.