News & Reviews:   Social media

For most people, social media has become the preferred method. As an example, Malaysians love to share stuff on Facebook every day. But now, Meta wants people to directly share to Facebook Reels.

The world’s richest person as well as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk is now also the largest shareholder of the popular social media platform Twitter. Musk, who himself is a prolific Twitter user, now owns 9.2 percent of the company after purchasing a whopping ~RM12.1 billion in stock.

CNBC broke the news yesterday after spotting a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing on the purchase. With the news of Musk’s Twitter stocks purchase, share prices of the social media company actually went up to more than 27 percent.

Instagram yesterday announced that it is revamping the app by introducing ‘Favourites’ and ‘Following’, two new ways for your feed to behave. The good news is, regardless of which option you take, your feed will display posts in chronological order again!

Shared by the Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri via a Meta blogpost yesterday, the change is part of the platform’s initiative to give users more choice and control over what they see in their feed. Furthermore, the change wants to make the time users spend on Instagram ‘feel more intentional’.

Be it Facebook or Twitter, most people use some form of social media these days. Unfortunately, Donald Trump isn't banned from both of these platforms, so he decided to make a new one. First announced last year, the so-called TRUTH Social is now ready to roll out.

Have you seen Twitter users who write a string of tweets on a single topic? There's no feature in Twitter that allows for long posts, though Twitlonger somewhat helps with this. Fortunately, Twitter seems to be working on a feature related to this.

As you know, a lot of our fellow Malaysians love social media platforms. One of the more popular ones has to be TikTok, as it contains lots of short but quirky videos. Some people lament that these videos don't have high resolution, but that could change soon.

2021 will be ending soon and there are many things that have happened. One of the best ways to refresh our memory is none other than Twitter (sorry, no more YouTube Rewind) and for this year, we will be taking a good look at #OnlyOnTwitter Malaysia 2021.

In 2021, a service that trended for a time would be audio chat rooms. One of them is Twitter Spaces, which seems to be the more popular choice now. Its audio chat rooms previously had no recording function, but that's no longer the case.

By now, some of you may have tuned in to a Twitter Space or two. If you haven't, it's essentially Twitter's answer to Clubhouse, an audio chat room feature that lets you host live podcasts. The features big downside is that there's no in-app feature to record it, but that could be added soon.

If you recall, there was a rumour last week claiming that Instagram could launch subscriptions soon. From the leaked image, you could see that the company was also working on a badge system. Well, it looks like the latter is ready to roll out.