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Social media stocks got a big boost last year as people sheltered in place amid the global pandemic. But with life slowly returning to normal, the group is facing its moment of truth.   At the peak of the pandemic in the U.S., social media app downloads spiked between the months of March and May across most of the major players, including TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter.    As a result, the stocks of those companies also shined. Snap and Twitter were the strongest performers, rising a respective 207% and 69% in 2020. Facebook was up 33%, while the S&P 500 gained 16%.   However, after staying resilient through March of this year, social media app downloads have slowed significantly over the past two months. Since having more than 10 million app downloads in the U.S. in May of 2020, the TikTok app saw just 4.4 million downloads in May of 2021.    Facebook went from 5.4 million U.S. app downloads last March to 3.1 million, Snapchat from 3.2 million to 1.7 million and Twitter from 2.2 million to 1.4 million app downloads one year later.     » Read More

A new collective is trying to solve the live audio monetization problem. A group of primarily tech-focused hosts are launching a shared podcast feed that’ll round up the many social audio chats they’ve started, with plans to run ads across the collected feed. The group, which is being spearheaded by Techmeme Ride Home host Brian McCullough, will initially involve nine total contributors, including Alex Kantrowitz of the Big Technology newsletter and product designer Chris Messina. They’ll share a podcast feed where they can publish audio they’ve recorded live across various social audio platforms, like Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces, and that feed, which is already live but hasn’t been publicly announced, is called SpaceCasts. Anyone who participates can publish their live audio on the feed and profit from whatever ad sales are made. (The team says anyone can apply to participate and says people can get in touch through their website. They also say they’ll ask all live room participants to say they’re okay with being recorded.) The big idea is that this solves two problems: one is that dedicating resources to putting together social audio rooms is hard to justify when there’s no major,  » Read More

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by: Dylan Abad Posted: Jun 1, 2021 / 06:18 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 1, 2021 / 06:18 AM EDT Twitter’s latest move in the search for truth. The site is planning to use misinformation warning labels. The categories are ‘get the latest’, ‘stay informed’, and ‘misleading.’ Each links users to more information on what’s in a tweet. One of the world’s leading laptop makers is weighing in on the global computer chip shortage. A top official at Acer says it will affect production well into next year. The official says the company can only fill about half of the demand for its products on any given day, due to the shortage. A Chinese tech company is claiming a new world record when it comes to charging your smartphone. It says it can fully charge a phone in just eight minutes through a wired charging system. The technology is “experimental,” for now.

Paresh B. Lal is the officer, based in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad. WhatsApp, which has been engaged in a court battle with the Indian government over the new social media rules, has finally appointed a grievance officer. “You can contact the Grievance Officer based in India with your complaints or concerns,” the WhatsApp web page informed its members. Paresh B. Lal is the officer, based in Banjara Hills in Hyderabad. “Please do not use the Grievance Officer channel for any law enforcement requests, or to serve any legal process,” it said further. “If you are a law enforcement official, please read our information for law enforcement authorities on how you can contact us.” Other social media and digital companies have also started updating their sites confirming the appointment of grievance officers as per the new social media rules that have taken effect in India. Announced in February, the new rules require “significant social media intermediaries” – or those with over five million users – to grievance, nodal and chief compliance offers. These officials are to be resident in India. The new rules have now come into effect. The grievance officer has to acknowledge the complaint within 24 hours and dispose…

Keywords - Pokimane, Pokimane Dating life, Pokimane news Pokimane, “I don’t think I could date someone where streaming is their life”. The most popular female streamer on Twitch, Imane ‘Pokimane’ Anys told Mizkif that it is difficult for her to date a Twitch streamer who constantly working on the platform. Pokimane is the most popular female creator on Twitch with over 7.8 million followers. Pokimane is constantly delivering a range of content to over 7.8 million fans. Pokimane did streams while playing games as well as Hot-tub stream as part of the meta. Pokimane is also one of the board members of OfflineTV. She is very active in the public eye of the streaming community and her fans wanted to know about the creator’s dating life. Recently Pokimane talked about her dating preferences with Mizkif, another Twitch streamer. This conversation took place while both were streaming. During the stream, Mizkif asked Pokimane, “Do you think you could ever date a streamer? If that is a big streamer ?” Pokimane responded maturely, “It Depends. That streamer whom I could date, they would have to have a lot of emotional intelligence with a lot of social experience. For now, I don’t think…

Latest Entertainment News Pakistan, TV Drama Reviews, Films, Sports & Fashion | OyeYeah WhatsApp, the world’s most popular application, has introduced a new feature for users. WhatsApp keeps making new changes in its app keeping in mind the convenience of the user, however, the recently introduced feature will come in handy in less time.Many people use voice notes to send messages, sometimes it takes so long that the voice note sent is converted into minutes instead of seconds, but now you will be able to hear this long voice note quickly.The speed of voice notes has been changed by WhatsApp. 1x, 1.5x, and 2x will now be mentioned in front of the user’s voice note, you can hear the other’s voice at any speed you want.

- Advertisement - - Advertisement - During an appearance on Ludwing’s show, xQc named Pokimane to be the Twitch streamer he finds attractive. xQc appeared on Ludwig’s show as a couple with girlfriend and Adept, but that did not stop him from speaking his heart out. To his credit, Lengyel was always known to create drama from his eccentric comments but one can’t blame him for sharing his true feelings. To no one’s surprise the clip went viral on all over internet before it finally reached Pokimane. In the clip, xQc can been seen taking his time to answer, when asked about who he finds the most attractive on the Amazon’s streaming platform. With all eyes on him, including his partner Adept, xQc did not shy away from taking Pokimane’s name. When it eventually reached Pokimane, it did not take long for him to come up with a witty response. Imane appreciated xQc for the praise before she named his partner Adept to be her crush. In no time, Pokimane brushed it off as a joke and would like to keep it that way to prevent any rumors or unnecessary escalation of comments that were made only as a pun.…

There's a disturbing trend of drug dealers turning to social media to find new clients, especially young ones, that they can hook at an early age.Child safety advocates tell ABC15 these criminals are using apps like Snapchat, TikTok, Kik, and Instagram to build bonds with teenagers."It's, unfortunately, all way too easy," said Detective Scott Pietrzak who is part of the Mesa Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, and owner of Online Safety Specialists, a business he founded to educate parents about dangerous predators targeting children online.With a few taps on their smartphones, Pietrzak said these drug deals could be taking place right under your roof, and right under your nose."What these guys are doing is basically becoming friends with all these kids out there," said Pietrzak."Once they become friends with them, it's easy for them to advertise what they're selling. Whether it be, you know, marijuana or fentanyl, cocaine, LSD, heroin," added Pietrzak.The drugs could be delivered to your front door, or hand-delivered to teens at local parks. What has child safety advocates so concerned about these shady deals are how dangerous these street drugs could be."These kiddos are not even realizing what they're taking is Fentanyl," said…

Patrick Starrr is the latest content creator to join Jellysmack’s Creator Program.The makeup mega-influencer — who has amassed a following of more than 11 million across his highest performing platforms: YouTube, Instagram and TikTok — joins additional influential creators in the program, including fellow beauty gurus Brad Mondo, Jackie Aina, and James and Robert Welsh. Jellysmack, founded in 2016, originally started as a social media video company that leveraged technology and data to build and scale its own popular social channels into large social communities around the world. For instance,  it’s ranked No. 1 in beauty, soccer and basketball, and No. 2 in gaming and movies across social channels, according to social video analytics company Tubular Labs. As the company developed proprietary tools to detect trending content and then optimize and distribute that content across various social platforms, it discovered it could replicate the model to help individual creators do the same. Starrr’s content on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, for example, will be distributed and tailored to Snapchat and Facebook, his less-engaged social platforms. “Jellysmack has a great reputation with creators and has done some amazing work in the beauty space,” Starrr said. “I haven’t been able to devote as…