Over 1.3 billion people use Facebook Messenger every month to stay in touch with their family and friends. Facebook’s messaging app set out to compete with each and every instant message app around, and even with texting. While Facebook Messenger is packed with functionality, some of its best features aren’t readily apparent. New functions are…

Instagram is removing the IGTV button from the main screen of its app because “very few” people tap on it. The decision was confirmed to TechCrunch by a spokesperson for the Facebook-owned company, who claimed that members of the Instagram community are instead “finding IGTV content through previews in Feed, the IGTV channel in Explore,…

Music video app TikTok soared to new heights in 2019 with more than 700 million downloads, beating Facebook and Messenger, and behind only WhatsApp’s more than 850 million downloads. According to the latest edition of Sensor Tower’s Store Intelligence Data Digest, TikTok has steadily climbed the annual Top Apps chart. The music app was fourth…

Joe Biden has been a consistent front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, and with the primaries just on the horizon, he stands a very good chance of seizing the nomination and maybe even the presidency. Social media companies might be sweating at the prospect: In a New York Times interview published Friday,…

The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Facebook has shelved its plan to bring ads to WhatsApp Status — a monetization move that had seemingly been under development for about two years and was also reportedly responsible for the departure of both of the instant messaging app’s original founders. The team tasked to figure…