One of South Africa’s highest-profile politicians is quitting Twitter, describing the social media site as an “evil platform” that has “degenerated into a platform for irrationality and mob-lynching”.
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Messaging platform WhatsApp has surpassed two billion active users. The encrypted messaging service, founded in 2009, was bought by Facebook for $19-billion in 2014.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the social network is “learning faster” and “prioritising better” as it achieved US$1-billion in quarterly revenue for the first time.
Instagram, the photo-sharing app Facebook acquired for $715-million in 2012, generated more than a quarter of the social media company’s revenue last year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mark Zuckerberg used to want everyone to like Facebook Inc. Now, he doesn’t care anymore.
Facebook’s growth is slowing, adding pressure to a company facing more restrictive privacy regulations and continued scrutiny from global lawmakers and antitrust officials.
Facebook is allowing users to clear data which has been linked to their account based on their activity on other websites and apps.
MTN South Africa has launched data bundles aimed specifically at users of the fast-growing social media platform TikTok, which is developed by the Chinese company ByteDance.
Naspers affiliate Tencent is planning a major update to its ubiquitous WeChat messaging app to stave off up-and-comer ByteDance and counter the start-up’s growing dominance of short-form video.
ByteDance is preparing a major push into the mobile arena’s most lucrative market, a realm Tencent Holdings has dominated for over a decade: games.