Instagram is now getting more and more complicated, specifically with its bugs. Instagram down is now of the daily trends of social networks like twitter, or down detector websites. Not only Instagram down is one of the most significant bugs of this social media, getting notifications without any sign of message, or any other actions are other Instagram bugs.
Many Instagram users’ daily search on how to fix the fake notification won’t go away from the Instagram app. This could be a kind of headache for a person who is reaching their Instagram account every hour. Instagram now is widely used by any age group to do different things, even making money, or create stunning videos, or at the simplest way to communicate with friends.
Getting such notifications without any actions can be troublesome, and you would like to fix it as soon as possible. Here in this blog, I would mention the possible reasons why you are getting such notification, then some of the ways that you might fix the issue.
Fix Instagram notifications won’t go away
First, I would mention some of the reasons you see notifications that won’t go away, and you don’t see any message or action for that notification.
Notification that won’t go from a direct message
You get push notifications without anything on the app
Notifications on the Activity
There are some general ways to get rid of notifications that won’t go away. To fix the issue:
You should scroll down to check all the direct message till the last one
Check requests in direct messages (hidden messages)
Check general messages section
You can try these ways too:
Update your Instagram app from store
Uninstall and reinstall the app
Check your internet connectivity (switch it off and on)
Reset your network setting from the setting
Instagram says I have a message but I don’t
If you see the red number notification beside the direct message most probably there is an unread message there. When you open the direct message, you only see some of them. So, you should scroll down too check all till the last one.
This is because some messages on Instagram turns unread. For example, if someone sent you a message and deactivate their Instagram account, the message will be hidden. When they go back to Instagram, the message appears (but is in very bottom of direct message section).
You should also check the requests and general sections!
Why you get a fake notification on the Instagram direct message:
As you might have seen, Instagram direct has a different part, like the original and general message, as well as requested messages. If you got any red number beside your direct message icon, it means you have an unread message in these places. Primary, general requests.
The second reason is that someone may be sent you a message, but they had immediately deactivated their accounts. The notification will disappear, and as soon as they activate the account, you can see the notifications. So, you should find the unread message.
How to fix Instagram direct message notifications won’t go away?
All you need is to check all three parts carefully.
Open the general message to see if you have any unread messages
Open the requests (if your account is private) to see if there is any message there
Scroll down on the Primary messages to see if you have any unread messages.
All in all
Instagram has many bugs, which are a headache to fix, but if you get any fake notifications, first try to update the app and check the internet connection. It doesn’t work, search in the app if you have any, messages left to read, or anyone has unsent a message.
Another social media found snooping on user’s data thanks to ios14 latest update. The cool new version of iOS 14 sends an alert when an app tries to copy clipboard information, and its users have reported receiving the alerts with each keystroke in Reddit’s iOS app, and Reddit says it’s releasing a fix for a piece of code that copied contents from users’ clipboards.
The issue was first observed by Twitter user Donald Morton which posted a good video of how Reddit is capturing the clipboard on each keystroke.
“We tracked this down to a codepath in the post composer that checks for URLs in the pasteboard and then suggests a post title based on the text contents of the URL,” a Reddit spokesperson wrote in an email to The Verge. “We do not store or send the pasteboard contents. We removed this code and are releasing the fix on July 14th.”
Before this, other platforms such as LinkedIn and TikTok were caught reading users’ clipboard information and formed a kind of unreliability and trust issues among users. And now Reddit is the next platform which is found to be doing the same.
Until now, the social media platforms and startup apps listed below are the ones which are found to be reading clipboards:
Tik Tok
LinkedIn
Reddit
Google News
Patreon
Call of Duty
Fruit Ninja
Philips Sonicare App
All we have to do is to wait until the full release of iOS14. A public beta of iOS 14 is expected in the next few weeks, and it’s likely that the clipboard privacy feature may reveal more apps engaged in this questionable behavior. After that, users can find out exactly which apps are tracking their clipboards.
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.
If you are using any form of social media, you might wonder how you can get some more information about your accounts. The best point of accessing to the analytics of any social media accounts like Facebook Instagram Twitter or YouTube is that you will know how you should direct that account.
If you are using any form of social media, you might wonder how you can get some more information about your accounts. The best point of accessing to the analytics of any social media accounts like Facebook Instagram Twitter or YouTube is that you will know how you should direct that account.
Indeed it will give you a better inside of what you have done on it, or what you should do in the future. For example, you are running a business account, and you need to get more women because you are selling women stuff. An insight would show you how your accounts are growing.
Looking for the best time to post on social media? What are the men and women portions of your account? Or to know what time of the day would be the best to post? Or an insight into the best and engaging posts? All answers are inside the analytics tools of social media.
What is social media analytics?
Social media analytics tools are the software or apps providing the statistics of social networks. They will provide the posts and user engagement, user behaviors, the best time to post, and all other information one needs to grow their account. For example, age, gender, living places of users, or country.
If you are running multiple accounts on different social networks, it’s better you use third-party apps to get more metrics (all in one social media analytics tools). I would introduce here to manage all accounts in one place.
Free social media analytics tools
Let us divide analytics tools based on the platforms:
YouTube analytics tools
Twitter analytics tools
Facebook & Instagram analytics tools
However, many third-party apps may have the all in one place such as Hootsuite. It means at a time; you can manage and get the analytics of all your social accounts.
YouTube analytics tools for others’ channels
Social Blade
If you want to know the estimated earning of someone else channel, you can get it through Social Blade or TubeBody Chrome extension. As you see in the picture, the number of subscribers, estimated earning per videos, and their rank is shown in the analytics section.
There is some fantastic section on the website that shows if channel trending is rising. And, the option to see similar accounts. If you are looking forward to gathering some videos from YouTube with the same topic, it can be a good idea.
Tube body
It is true that if you find the channel with the highest rate of earning, but you can come up with your ideas. Some topics are competitive, and thousands of channels are competing on a specific topic. It is good to get some ideas that which channels are proper (and well worth spending time creating videos, making content), but always think for uniqueness and quality.
Free Instagram & Facebook analytics tools
Creator studio
I highly recommend the creator studio, and the Instagram insight (available for creator and business accounts) available on the Instagram app.
The tool would indeed give you the basic statistics about your account, but in some cases, it might be enough. The Instagram insight is divided into three main sections of content, activity, and audience.
In the content section, everything about your posts, including the engagement rate. Activity will show you the best time (hour or day) to post, and the audience section will show the portion of both genders, their age, and country (and city).
It depends on your business or Instagram activity. Instagram creator studio is also giving the same information. Connecting Instagram account to the creator studio is easy, and you can log in to the creator studio with your Instagram account. Then, tools are in front of you.
If that is not enough for you, you can go for free Trial of other social media analytics services like Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social, etc.
Creator Studio to see Facebook and Instagram analytics for free
If you are running a page on Facebook, you might have seen the insight menu on your Facebook page. Facebook has provided complete analytics about the growth of the page. You can get Facebook analytics on Creator Studio. Facebook insight gives you posts performance data, audience statistics, data of stories, and other necessary information you need to know about your page.
Creator studio for Facebook free analytics
You can use the insight for free, and of course, do not forget to check all options on the Facebook page set. You can set the audience and place of visitors. So, the page would be open for those you want to be there. This customizes the audience and determines the direction that a page is growing at.
Free Twitter analytics tools
Like other services above, Twitter also has its analytics services that you can use for free. It will give you a better insight on which direction your account is going.
Best third party social media analytics tools
As I have seen, what makes this software and apps different from what the social network provides is the report you can make within the app. However, making a report is not free, and they charge you (sometimes separately from the other services).
Social media analytics services like Hootsuite, Buffer is the one you can make the social report. These services are excellent if you are a social media manager, and you need it for your job/resume. Otherwise, if you are running your accounts, you no need the report, in my mind.
When And Where You Can Find Social Analytics Tools
Equally important is the question of where to look for appropriate social media analytics tools. In general, there are several options where you can get such a tool, so let’s take a closer look at each of them.
The reality is, social analytics tools can be found everywhere, for example on the best web developer freelance platforms. Usually, there can be some experts that can provide you with the perfect tools to analyze your account data. As a result, you get a qualified tool that is created only for you with all your requirements and wishes in mind. It will provide you with analytics data and other useful information about your account. As a result, you get a good product for an affordable price. The tools created by developers are completely personalized and provided with modern technologies, for example, AI development or other technical decisions to obtain reliable and accurate statistics.
But of course, there can be totally other situations. For example, your project has no extra funds for such an application or tool. In that case, you need to find a way to do it cheaper or even for free. In fact, it is not a problem, as you still can try some free tools that can be found on the Internet. They are no worse than paid tools, and their only disadvantage is that they will not be personalized specifically for you. However, they often have several options that you can use to get some type of information about your activity and visits to your account. Sometimes you do not even need to download them as some sites already have useful instruments for gathering statistics. Usually, these are internal tools of sites that are available to all users and which give accurate information about your target audience.
Conclusion
If you have few accounts to run of less than 100K followers on each, use free tools. I highly recommend you use the social networks to get the insight. If you are a social media manager or running multiple accounts, you can use social media management tools.
Twitch, the very popular streaming, has temporarily banned President Trump’s account for “hateful conduct.” a Twitch representative said that the account had been suspended for violating the company’s policy on hateful conduct.
“Hateful conduct is not allowed on Twitch. In line with our policies, President Trump’s channel has been issued a temporary suspension from Twitch for comments made on stream, and the offending content has been removed.”
Regarding what Forbes has clarified, The company pointed to two examples of offending statements from recent and older rallies:
2016 campaign rally, recently rebroadcast on Twitch: “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. But I speak to border guards, and they tell us what we’re getting. And it only makes common sense. It only makes common sense. They’re sending us not the right people.”
Tulsa Rally: “Hey, it’s 1:00 o’clock in the morning and a very tough, I’ve used the word on occasion, hombre, a very tough hombre is breaking into the window of a young woman whose husband is away as a traveling salesman or whatever he may do. And you call 911, and they say, “I’m sorry, this number’s no longer working.” By the way, you have many cases like that, many, many, many. Whether it’s a young woman, an old woman, a young man, or an old man, and you’re sleeping.”
Reddit also banned a subreddit dedicated to Trump
Another social media platform that dared to stand against Trump’s hateful content and term’s violation is Reddit. But the difference is that the subreddit community wasn’t set up by or formally involved with the Trump campaign.
Trump’s Twitch channel was banned on the very same day Reddit announced a slew of new policies that also saw the popular r/the_Donald subreddit permanently banned from its platform.
Overall, Trump has been causing issues and controversies lately on almost all social media platforms. The president has also recently seen action taken against his Facebook and Twitter accounts, too, for hateful content.
