LinkedIn announced it is going to stop collecting data from users’ clipboards from now on. LinkedIn, which was caught red-handed in copying users’ clipboard content.
This decision is made after a user highlighted the seemingly privacy-invasive practice earlier this week. Twitter user DonCubed, a developer for portfolio builder Urspace, posted a video showing that the LinkedIn app was copying the contents of his clipboard on every single keystroke.
“LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard every keystroke. IOS 14 allows users to see each paste notification. I’m on an IPad Pro, and it’s copying from the clipboard of my MacBook Pro. TikTok just got called out for this exact reason.”
Just like TikTok, which was caught shamelessly reading users’ clipboards, thanks to a new privacy feature in iOS 14, LinkedIn is now exposed while doing the same disgraceful thing, which is currently in a limited beta for developers. The operating system now notifies users when an app copies something from another app or device.
TikTok tried to make excuses for this behavior by sharing fake statements. For example, TikTok announced that this snooping action was part of an ‘anti-spam’ feature, and the company also announced that it would discontinue this practice.
We can now be a little more relieved, and we can feel safe thanks to iOS 14. It seems that iOS 14 will help us to discover this type of behavior in other applications too.
Twitter is now working on rolling out two useful options on the platform, which are new controls over who can reply to your tweets and new updates on twitter stories “Fleets.”
Twitter is testing new options on its newest and coolest new feature, “Fleets,” which, as lots of you know, is similar to stories on Instagram but is called “Fleets on twitter. This new update on “Fleets” includes the “double bubble fleets” that let people merge into a single stream. Clicking on it will make people see the two twitter users’ Fleet in one time.
When two users post a collaborative fleet, tapping on a fleet would seemingly enable followers of the two users to view their collaborative Fleet.
This new double-bubble Fleet feature can have so many uses among users, such as interviews, real-time highlights from events, GIF wars, etc. This is somehow like the Instagram live co-streaming option.
New controls over who can reply to your tweets
Twitter has also been seeking new ways to facilitate additional tweet discussion options, like more confined discussions within tweet streams.
As explained by Twitter product manager Kayvon Beykpour in October last year:
“It’s actually quite difficult to have a fireside chat when you have a billion people screaming into your ear. Like imagine we had tens of thousands of people in the studio with us right now, talking into our ear while we were talking to each other.”
Social media today has best interpreted this statement by concluding that, Beykpour, in this instance, was specifically referring to the challenges of hosting a Q and A session via tweet, because everyone can use an event hashtag and add their thoughts to a stream, making it hard for both participants and users to follow a single thread.
Source: https://www.socialmediatoday.com
That’s what lead to Twitter developing its new controls over who can reply to your tweets, which are now in testing with some users.
Maybe, this Fleet option would align with that focus and provide another way to facilitate more confined, limited conversations within the app.
Lots of good news coming for WhatsApp users all over the world. WhatsApp has officially announced a round of features that users have been waiting for, a lot. WhatsApp on Tuesday announced a number of new features that will be making their way to the Android, iPhone, KaiOS
Some of these new options are the ones we have already heard of or seen in the WhatsApp’s beta version, such as animated stickers on chats. But a couple of these updates are new.
A lot of you should be aware of the fact that Facebook works towards merging the back-end functionality of its messaging platforms (Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram Direct). This means any of the functions and options one of the mentioned messaging apps gets, it’d be available on the other ones in no time.
As an example, the animated stickers were first launched in messenger and are now rolled out for WhatsApp. I assure you that anything you can do in a Messenger chat thread, you’ll soon be able to do in WhatsApp or Instagram, and vice versa,
Keep reading to find out more about these four new WhatsApp updates.
Animated Stickers
It was less than two weeks ago that WhatsApp announced that it is testing to add animated stickers to the messaging app, but now it’s official, and users will be getting this cool feature within a couple of weeks.
With animated stickers, we can express our reactions and feelings in an easier way, and chatting would be even more fun than it used to be on WhatsApp.
Source: www.socialmediatoday.com
The QR Code
Another very useful feature WhatsApp is about to add for us is the QR code, which is going to make it very easy for us to add contacts. Thanks to WhatsApp, in only a second, we can add a new contact without typing phone numbers and all that. Enjoy adding contacts easily by scanning the code rather than having to enter their full phone number.
Source: www.socialmediatoday.com
Dark Mode for web and desktop
The “Dark mode” feature is always one of the most wanted features of every social media platform. WhatsApp added the dark mode for its mobile application a while ago. Now it is launching dark mode for its web users.
This can come really handy for the people who work on their PC or Laptops and use WhatsApp for a longer time.
New video call options
The last new WhatsApp features on the list are a couple of new options for WhatsApp video calls. Users will be able to enlarge a participant’s video to full screen during a group video call. WhatsApp in April increased the group call limit to eight participants.
The platform will further add a video icon in groups with up to eight members. By tapping on the video icon, users will be able to start a group video call directly will all the eight members instead of individually adding them. I’m sure by coming to an end of this news article about WhatsApp, and you are as interested as I am and can’t wait to get these new awesome features and start using them as fast as possible. Hopefully, we will all have these options in no more than a couple of weeks later.
Instagram stories are one of the main and most-used features of Instagram. As the statistics have always shown from the beginning of the time, Instagram stories where launched, people tend to watch more stories than posts and users actually love them.
Instagram knows the popularity of the stories, and as its use grows among Instagramers, Instagram has started to test something big on the platform. “a Full-Screen Stories Display.” Instagram has officially confirmed that it’s testing its somewhat intimidating full-screen Stories display.
It was about a month ago when Instagram published an announcement about double-story stories feeds, which was applied to a limited number of users worldwide. And now as AdWeek’s marketing manager Julian Gamboa, has shared screenshots on her twitter, it shows that the double-story stories feed is real and is actually being tested on some accounts.
The purpose of this feature is to let users watch and access stories faster and have them on a screen just like an album of stories that they can easily choose from.
The feature Is explained in even more detail by Social Media Today. Some users are now seeing a prompt below their double-story Stories display to ‘See all stories.’ When tapped, the Stories display then expands to full screen (depending on how many Stories you’re eligible to view), creating a Connect 4-style display grid of tappable Stories.
What’s the goal of the “double-story” stories feed?
As I mentioned above, the obvious goal of this feature is to make it easier for users to access all stories in one place and have a separate page for them.
I also think of this new option as an idea of Facebook to drive more traffic and users to stories since the stories feature is of great importance for Facebook when it comes to advertising.
“We’re always testing new ways to improve the Instagram experience for our community,” a Facebook company spokesperson said, in reference to the test.
LinkedIn is acting very considerate for the people who are seeking jobs and is also trying its best to be helpful during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why LinkedIn has launched New “Support” Reaction, a new “Open-To Work” feature, and a new Career Opportunities Hub to do something good for the job seekers on the platform.
LinkedIn “Support” reaction
LinkedIn has now added a new option for users to react better amid COVID-19, the “Support” reaction. The emoji-response option will provide another way to engage with LinkedIn posts, particularly, as noted, those relating to COVID-19, for which a ‘Like’ or ‘Curious’ response doesn’t fit.
The “Support” reaction is somehow like the “Care” reaction, which Facebook launched some time ago. The change also underlines the popularity of Reactions as a response tool.
LinkedIn “Open-To-Work”
LinkedIn is making it much easier to find jobs. Job seekers are now easier to be seen by the new LinkedIn feature. LinkedIn is also adding some new display options for both job seekers and professionals looking to lend a hand, where possible.
For job seekers, LinkedIn has added a new “Open To Work” feature, which will enable users to display that they’re available for offers and opportunities.
With the new “Open to Work” option, a new green label would be displayed around your profile picture showing that you are a job seeker. This can help to make your profile stand out in searches and in feeds.
Follow the steps below in order to add an “Open to Work” Frame to your profile:
Head to your profile and tap on: “Show recruiters you’re open to work” under your profile picture.
Fill in your job preferences such as location and job type
You can customize the option’s preferences by tapping on “choose who sees that you’re open” to select if you want to keep this to recruiters, or if you want to add a badge to your profile that everyone can see.
With these new LinkedIn updates, It would be easier for users to react to posts relevant to COVID-19 and also find their dream job faster than before and thank LinkedIn later.
Today Facebook has updated its news feed algorithm to something way better and more reliable for users. The news feed algorithm is going to put more emphasis on original reporting and boost content from news websites that provide information on their journalists, increasing transparency.
Facebook has decided to apply this change mostly because many of its users rely on Facebook as a reliable news source for any filed such as Covid-19 now. Moreover, with many local news outlets being forced to close due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the reliance on Facebook for news, especially local updates, is only going to rise.
From now on, Facebook has promised to show its users more original reporting and stories with transparent authorship.
“When we ask people what kind of news they want to see on Facebook, they continually tell us they want news stories that are credible and informative. Today, we’re updating the way news stories are ranked in News Feed to prioritize original reporting and stories with transparent authorship.”
“We do this by looking at groups of articles on a particular story topic and identifying the ones most often cited as the original source. We’ll start by identifying original reporting in English language news and will do the same for news in other languages in the future.”
Let me make the procedure of this algorithm a little easier for you. There will be variable impacts but take this example form me. Think that several of your friends share reports on the same news topic, and one of them shares the original reportage, Facebook will show you that first.
The second element of the update pays attention to ‘Transparent Authorship.’
Another big change of the algorithm with the new update is Transparent Authorship. According to Facebook itself, they are also starting to demote news content that does not have transparent information about the publisher’s editorial staff.
They will review news articles for bylines or a staff page on the publisher’s website that lists the first and last names of reporters or other editorial staff. They’ve found that publishers who do not include this information often lack credibility to readers and produce content with clickbait or ad farms, all content people tell us they don’t want to see on Facebook.
Overall, we all surely love the idea of the new algorithm change, and I guess that might help Facebook gain the trust and credibility it has lost in the past few days due to controversies.
