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How Parade Underwear Took Over Instagram
The New York Times
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The tagged photo section on the Instagram page for Parade, an underwear start-up founded in fall 2019, shows a surfeit of images of young women modeling brightly colored briefs and bikinis. Many of them pose in studio apartments, stretch...
Understanding how Facebook disappeared from the internet
Cloudflare
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“Facebook can't be down, can it?”, we thought, for a second. Today at 1651 UTC, we opened an internal incident entitled "Facebook DNS lookup returning SERVFAIL" because we were worried that something was wrong with our DNS resolver 1.1.1...
Clubhouse finally launches android version
Social Media Today
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It's taken some time - and no doubt some scrambling at Clubhouse HQ - but finally, an Android version of the audio social platform is now available, in limited beta for now, with a wider launch coming soon. As explained by Clubhouse: "To...
YouTube launches its TikTok rival, YouTube Shorts, initially in India
TechCrunch
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As TikTok’s fate in the U.S. remains murky, YouTube today announced the launch of a new short-form video experience it’s calling YouTube Shorts. The feature will allow users, initially in India, to upload 15-second or less short-form vid...
Yik Yak makes a comeback, four years after being shuttered
Social Media Today
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I don't really know what to make of this, but if you're interested, for whatever reason, your favorite anonymous social media app YikYak is back in app stores in the US. Why? Who knows, but the new owners of the app say that they believe...