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WhatsApp, Instagram And Facebook Are All Down
If you’re having trouble sending and receiving messages on WhatsApp, you’re not the only one. WhatsApp along with Instagram and Facebook are all not working right now. The Facebook-owned services have...
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Global Report: There Are 1.2 Million Zimbabweans On Social Media
If data from We Are Social and Hootsuite is to be taken at face value, the number of active social media subscribers grew by 20% from 0.88 million users in 2018 to 1.2 million this year. That’s an...
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WhatsApp Adds “Share To Facebook” Option
WhatsApp has added a “Share to Facebook” function that I’m finding a bit baffling (in its current form) if I’m 100% honest with you. The feature allows you to long press on a message and share the...
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Instagram To Become Less Of A Popularity Contest With New Update That Hides...
If you’ve used Instagram and you’re self-conscious then you’ve probably wondered what you can do to increase the number of likes (and followers) you have. This has made the social media network less of...
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Telecel Reviews WhatsApp & Social Media Bundles
In what must be one of the slowest announcement of new bundles, Telecel is still announcing bundle reviews and it seems today the focus is on the new pricing for social media bundles. WhatsApp Bundles...
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WhatsApp & Instagram Adding “from Facebook” To Their Names
We’ve known about Facebook integrating their social media services (Facebook & Instagram) with their messaging service (WhatsApp) for a while now. It seems this integration will not only come in...
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Econet’s Social Media & SMS Bundles Go Up Again: $3 For 75 SMS’
Econet recently raised the prices for its data bundles and as is usually the case SMS bundles and social media bundles also saw price increments. Your weekly SMS will now cost you the following: $3...
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Instagram Dark Mode Now Available For iPhones With The Latest iOS Version
Instagram has finally released their dark mode but right now it’s only available for iPhone users running iOS 13 and upwards. The dark mode isn’t available on Android yet but iOS users already have...
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US Regulators Consider Blocking Facebook From Joining FB, WhatsApp & Instagram
Facebook’s vision culminates with them having one super app to rule them all. That super app would have seamless integration between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp and it will exist as Facebook...
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Zim Social Media Users Fall Under 1M As Cost Of Data & Electricity Woes...
We Are Social’s Digital Report on Zimbabwe is pretty telling of just how impactful the floundering Zim economy on Zimbos usage Even before statistics started coming in from the likes of POTRAZ – data...
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Why are tech giants racing to clone TikTok in their apps?
What can I say about TikTok that hasn’t been said already? Well, for starters it is the app I’m yet to install and play around with because I’m afraid of yet another social media addiction – Instagram...
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How close is Facebook to integrating WhatsApp and Instagram in a cross-chat...
Last year, Chief Executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wanted to put all their social media holdings under one umbrella. Instagram and WhatsApp have, for the most part, been their own...
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Instagram is rolling out a fundraising feature
Instagram announced that they will rolling out a way for users on the platform to fundraise. This could be for a personal cause, for someone they may know going through a difficult time, a small...
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Facebook’s integration of Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger takes a step further
We’ve written about Facebook Portal before. Essentially this is Facebook’s grand plan to make sure that their social media platforms (Instagram and Facebook) and their messaging application are...
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Instagram isn’t being subtle about wanting us to watch Reels
Since TikTok has been in all sorts of trouble, Instagram has really been pushing Reels. Instagram isn’t alone in this, YouTube has also tried its hand at the short video format popularised by TikTok....
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Instagram’s 10th anniversary has come with new features
Instagram is celebrating its 10th birthday. It seems like the app has been around forever. Or it might just be that the decade (on my part) has seemed to have flown by or melded together. Anyway, to...
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Facebook may be forced to sell off WhatsApp and Instagram
The regulatory crusade against big tech in the United States has hit a new high. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday filed a lawsuit that could force Facebook to sell off assets such as...
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English football to boycott Facebook, Twitter & Instagram over racial abuse
English football authorities have announced a social media boycott to put pressure on those companies to take a stand against racial abuse on their respective platforms. The withdrawal is of all...
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The Messi effect: PSG social media gets millions of new followers
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, Lionel Messi has parted ways with Barcelona and has found himself in Paris playing for PSG (Paris Saint Germain). Now we can wax lyrical about how Barcelona...
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OnlyFans, in a massive u-turn, will now prohibit some adult content
While Netflix was one of the major beneficiaries of the ongoing global pandemic, it was not the only one. OnlyFans, a platform that allows creators to charge and get paid for exclusive content, saw an...
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OnlyFans does a somersault says it will no longer ban sexually explicit content
About five days ago, OnlyFans the revolutionary creator site revealed something shocking – they would be banning sexually explicit content from their platform. This was due to intense pressure from...
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Leaked documents show how Facebook doesn’t care about its users
Before I begin I must confess that these days I am finding it harder and harder to like Facebook. Every time when I am about to forgive them for something untoward we learn of another thing then...
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Facebook halts the development of Instagram for kids in the wake of damaging...
Facebook has been battling a series of damaging revelations made by the Wall Street Journal and picked up on by other major publications around the world for the past few weeks. Most of these...
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Facebook releases research on Instagram’s effect on teen mental health
After facing backlash from a Wall Street Journal report that exposed the effect of Instagram’s effect on the mental health of teens, Facebook has released two slide decks from its internal research on...
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Facebook, Instagram back up, WhatsApp still unstable
The three Facebook owned platforms were down for about six hours on Monday the 4th of October. The team working on a fix managed to mostly patch it up just before midnight. In our testing Facebook...
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What was really going on with the WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram outage?
When it rains, it pours. Facebook is still in the midst of dealing with a PR nightmare caused by a whistleblower. Now, mere days later, the big three platforms all suffer an outage. Facebook, WhatsApp...
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Facebook is changing its name as Zuckerberg builds his “metaverse”
Facebook is, according to a report by The Verge, going to be changing its name and the rebranding exercise could happen as early as next week at the company’s Connect Conference scheduled for the 28th...
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Meta launches tool to help African SMEs grow their businesses on WhatsApp,...
Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has announced the launch of Facebook Business Coach, an innovative and easily-accessible way for owners of small-and-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in South Africa,...
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Instagram has notes now. Feeling the pressure from BeReal
If you ask those familiar with social media platforms they will tell you that Instagram is a platform to flex on how well you are doing socially. Only the best photos and videos with luxurious...
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Instagram and Messenger’s new parental controls allow parents to see how...
We have talked about this a lot. The smartphone presents a very useful tool for the child still in school but at the same time a potent time-wasting tool. You know that kids need smartphones and you...
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