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TikTok social media platform value now 11 percent higher than Facebook

05/12/202305/11/2023 Stephanie Beck

Social Media Platform - TikTok Value Increase

The short video app is also valued at 65 percent higher than Instagram according to a new report. TikTok has now overtaken Facebook as a considerably more valuable social media platform, as a new report from Business2community.com has indicated that the former now has a value 11 percent greater than the latter. This makes TikTok the most valuable brand in its category, based on the statistics in the new report. The analysis was based on data from Q1 this year, naming TikTok the most valuable social media platform in the…

All Discord usernames will soon need to be changed

05/09/202305/08/2023 Sam Lambert

The popular online chat service has announced that it will be asking everyone to make the changes. “Over the coming weeks,” all Discord usernames will need to be changed, according to an official announcement from the company behind the popular online chat service. The platform allows people to form and join groups based on various different kinds of interest. There are currently an estimated 150 million active users on the platform worldwide. They will all need to change their Discord usernames in the coming weeks. This will allow the platform…

All social media apps have risks similar to TikTok

03/22/202303/21/2023 John Montgallo

A transparency group is cautioning that the Chinese platform isn’t the only one posing risks. A nonprofit advocacy group called the Tech Oversight Project is urging Congress to hold US social medias accountable ahead of hearing testimony from TikTok’s CEO. The group says the US platforms pose similar national security and mental health risks to TikTok. The nonprofit has stated that Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Meta Platforms Inc.’s social media apps such as Facebook and Instagram, Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc’s products all employ comparable harmful business practices to TikTok. Moreover,…

QR code scans make Instagram post sharing easy

10/27/202210/27/2022 Jennifer Goula

Users can now use quick response barcodes to share their reels, tags, locations and other information. Instagram has announced that it is assigning a unique QR code to every new post made on its app, with the goal of making it easier to be able to share images, reels, tags, and locations on its searchable map. The photo sharing app us using the well recognized and popular barcodes to enhance real world sharing. As a result of the pandemic, QR code barcodes have made their way onto pretty much everything…

Instagram slapped with $400 million fine for weak kids’ data privacy

09/08/202209/07/2022 L. Green

The Meta-owned social media platform was hit with a record fine from Ireland’s regulator. Regulators in Ireland have agreed to hit Instagram with a record fine of $402 million (€405 million) following an investigation into the way the social media platform handled children’s data privacy. A spokesperson for the watchdog group said that the investigation started back in 2020. According to recent reports, Instagram has every intention of appealing against the data privacy fine, citing a Meta spokesperson in a statement issued by email. The watchdog launched the investigation into…