The US on Thursday condemned the Nigerian government for suspending Twitter and targeting individuals who use the social media site, including Nigerian broadcasters.
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Social media firms wanting to operate in Nigeria must register a local entity and be licensed, the country’s information minister said on Wednesday.
In recent years, Lagos, Nigeria’s biggest city, has become Africa’s most attractive tech hub for investors. But that could be imperilled by the government’s decision to suspend Twitter’s operations in the country.
Nigerian telecommunications firms blocked access to Twitter following a regulatory directive aimed at suspending the US social media giant indefinitely.
Twitter will roll out a new subscription product initially in Australia and Canada called Twitter Blue, which will let paying users edit their tweets before posting and change the colour theme of their app.
Facebook is opening up ways for businesses to interact with customers on Instagram and WhatsApp, it said on Wednesday at its virtual developers conference, F8 Refresh.
A recent deluge of downloads of messaging app Signal exposed tensions about its direction and management under its unconventional founder and CEO, Moxie Marlinspike.
WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday.
Instagram is launching the option for users globally to hide like counts on posts and the change will soon roll out on Facebook.
Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok owner ByteDance, told employees he will step down as CEO and be succeeded by human resources chief Liang Rubo, the company disclosed on Thursday.