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The season finale of Loki aired today and in celebration star Tom Hiddleston took over Tumblr for a “Tomblr” Q&A. The response to Loki on the social media platform has been nothing short of astounding, but Loki has always been a Tumblr fan-favorite. After the first trailer dropped on April 5 searches for “Loki” saw an 1010% increase. Compared to May, within the first two weeks of June “Loki” increased 209% and “Loki Laufeyson” flew up 263%. In the week after the premiere, “Loki” soared up 664%, “Loki Laufeyson” jumped up 1006%, and “Tom Hiddleston” saw a 385% increase. Read on for a few excerpts from the Loki “Tomblr” Q&A, including his pre-Loki playlist and his thoughts on Alligator Loki. You can find all of Tom’s answers to fans’ burning questions here. Q: What kind of music do you believe Loki would listen to? I feel like he would listen to the Arctic Monkeys in public but Lady Gaga in private.  A: “Wow, I guess there’s a tension there between public Loki and private Loki. I see where you’re going with that. I think perhaps both the Arctic Monkeys and Lady Gaga would feature in a kind of Loki playlist. I…

we I knew the DM was on the way to Clubhouse And today, a new feature has arrived that has spurred voice-only apps with text-based chat features. Clubhouse’s new direct messaging system, called the “back channel,” provides users with a frequently requested way to start conversations behind the scenes of social audio apps. Backchannels provide both one-to-one messaging and group chat, typically adding considerable utility to voice-only social networks. Speakers can be pre-organized or live-tuned through messaging while operating the room. You can also accept text-based questions. This is probably more comfortable for some listeners. My hat?TipMy microphone?BlinkingMy message? Directly. After unintentionally leaking features 5 times, my beloved engineering team introduces the new Clubhouse Backchannel 🥰 pic.twitter.com/3bPHeGxQaZ — Clubhouse (@Clubhouse) July 14, 2021 Clubhouse users can currently send links via Backchannel, but not images or videos, but it looks like a new feature coming soon. The messaging system also includes a message request area where strangers communicate with you until you approve it.  » Read More

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Episode 6 is here and, honestly, I'm still a little speechless. Lucky for me, the good folks of Tumblr dot com have pretty much summed up my feelings on ~all that~ in the form of some *chef's kiss* memes. Here are 21 of their very best, funniest finale posts: 🚨 WARNING: This post contains MASSIVE spoilers for the season finale of Loki! If you haven't seen it yet, give it a watch and come on back after!🚨

Twitter recorded a 26% increase in requests from global governments to remove content on the social media platform from verified journalists and news outlets in the second half of 2020 compared to the first half. Global governments made 361 tweet removal requests from verified journalists and/or news outlets compared to just 199 requests last year between July 1 and Dec. 31 of 2020 amid COVID-19, Twitter's latest transparency report released Wednesday shows.Removal requests came mostly from India (128 requests) and Turkey (108), followed by Pakistan (52), Russia (28), Brazil (16), Mexico (9), Thailand (9), Ireland (3), France (2), Colombia (2) and Venezuela (2).TWITTER RESTRICTS ACCOUNT OF EXPERT WHO MOCKED CHINA LEADER In total, five of the 361 tweets were removed in accordance with national laws. Reuters first reported the numbers on Wednesday after Twitter gave the outlet an exclusive look at its latest data.Twitter also received more than 14,600 information requests from governments, including more than 2,000 emergency information requests, targeting more than 51,000 accounts in total. The company saw a 15% increase in information requests during the second half of 2020 and complied with 30% of requests, according to the report. India and the United States were the top…

MTV is bringing back one of its most iconic shows just over 20 years after the seminal series launched on the channel. Cribs first aired on MTV in September 2000, and has run for more than 100 episodes across many formats. The series was a regular crowd pleaser on MTV's main channel for many years, had a reboot and spin-off series' in the 2010s, and then even had a stint as a short-form series on Snapchat and a global format in the UK. The new series will bring Cribs back to MTV on August 11 for a new run of half hour episodes. Cribs was developed by the now-President of Content and Chief Creative Officer of MTV Entertainment Group, Nina L. Diaz, and the new series will see Elena Diaz and Adam Gonzalez executively producing the new series, which Nina Diaz's division will produce. For those who haven't see Cribs, the series takes viewers into the homes of the rich and famous, a bit like going for a house viewing in that neighbor's property you always wanted to poke around in that just went up for sale. While getting a tour of the home, audiences are also treated to a…

ANI | Updated: Jul 15, 2021 01:17 IST Washington , July 15 (ANI): Twitter on Wednesday announced that it will discontinue its Fleets feature, the platform's own version of stories that disappear after 24 hours, on August 3.The announcement means the company will end the feature it rolled out last year to compete with the stories features available in Snapchat and Instagram, The Verge reported."We hoped Fleets would help more people feel comfortable joining the conversation on Twitter," Ilya Brown, Twitter's vice president of product, said in a statement. "But, in the time since we introduced Fleets to everyone, we haven't seen an increase in the number of new people joining the conversation with Fleets like we hoped." Twitter introduced Fleets in November 2020. The feature lets Twitter users post full-screen photos, videos, reactions to tweets or plain text that disappears after 24 hours. Fleets came years after Snapchat and Facebook introduced similar options for their users."Fleets are mostly used by people who are already Tweeting to amplify their own Tweets and talk directly with others," the company said. "We'll explore more ways to address what holds people back from participating on Twitter."The Verge reported that Twitter's decision to discontinue…

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Deleting a Snapchat account is easy enough, but temporarily deactivating one might be a more suitable option. Here's what you need to know. Instead of deleting a Snapchat account completely, users can simply deactivate their account instead. However, there are some points to be aware of here, including how Snapchat’s deactivation (and deletion) process works. Not to mention, how long the user has to reactivate their Snapchat account before it is gone for good. Over the years, Snapchat has remained a hugely popular platform, and this is in spite of the increased competition within the social media space. While the other ‘big socials’ tend to offer different features and serve different purposes, some of those gaps have been closing. The most obvious example of this is Snapchat Stories. A feature that has largely been copied by most of the other social media competitors. Whether it is to try some of those competing features or just to take a break from Snapchat, users can quite easily deactivate their account on a temporary basis. In fact, deactivating an account is not any different to deleting one in the eyes of Snapchat, with the deactivation process the first step toward deleting an account. To…

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