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Clubhouse is finally out of beta allowing the wider public to join live audio events. In light of this, the platform has even changed its logo, but will all of this be enough to help boost the app’s dwindling appeal? Or will Twitter’s Spaces continue to flourish in its demise? Speaking of Spaces, the company has been working on

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Though the general consensus among many consumers and brands is that Facebook is pretty much dead, the global tech giant is still very much alive and kicking. Not only is it the world’s most widely used social media platform –  it has 2.85 billion monthly active users – but it is the second most used

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First off, well done to Twitter for setting the example of knowing when to quit while you’re ahead. The tech giant announced it will be retiring its widely disliked innovation, Fleets. In a string of tweets, the company’s Twitter Support page shared that it introduced the ephemeral Stories feature last year to help the average user feel more

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Tech giants Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok have committed to battle the abuse of women online. The four companies made the pledge during the UN Generation Equality Forum in Paris. Two core themes it will focus on is building better ways for women to curate their safety online as well as improvements to reporting systems.

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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri says Instagram is no longer a photo sharing app but we already knew this. In a video posted across his Instagram and Twitter, Mosseri shared the company’s plans to adopt more entertainment and video following the success of its competitors TikTok and YouTube. The four key areas it will be focusing on are: creators, video, shopping

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Following the arrival of Greenroom, Facebook rolled out its Live Audio Rooms in the week. However, unlike its Spotify competitor, the company has adopted a strategy similar to Clubhouse by only granting some US-based public figures including Joe Budden and Russell Westbrook access to the new technology. The latter will also distribute his podcast through

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Many Black creators on TikTok are refusing to create dances to Megan Thee Stallion’s single Thot Shit in an effort to highlight how often their dances are appropriated by the app’s white creators without receiving any sort of credit. It all started when Black TikToker Erick Louis posted a video pretending to make a dance video to Thot Shit. However, in

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