Instagram Drops DM Test After Complaints from the Users

The heart-bursting animation of Instagram has vanished from the screens. No one knows the exact reasons.

Recently, Instagram has back-peddled heart-bursting animations, which is quite amusing. The social media platform has started rolling out these animations, but soon Instagram was forced to bury the idea. Amidst all, it seems the team of Instagram has received the message regarding the heart-bursting animations. In recent times, social media platforms are adding several new features on their platforms almost every day. It can be understood that these social media platforms are rolling out new features to attract more users to extend their services. But, keeping up with such a vast number of features is quite tricky even for professional reasons. Both Facebook and Twitter have added a new feature in recent weeks. However, the rolling out of new features is slow but continuous and coming out almost every week. Still, most of the time, these new features are tremendous and provide enhanced user experience, but sometimes these may confuse and infuriate the users.

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The latest example of such confusing and infuriating rollouts are heart bursting animation introduced by Instagram. After getting a lot of complaints from the users, it seems that the platform has rolled back it. The heart-bursting animations have been removed from the internet after users termed it as annoying. No one can say when the social media platform added the animation, but complaints regarding it were vocal on internet sources for the last two weeks. Similarly, the disappearance of these heart bursting animations is also a mystery. The newly introduced heart bursting animation has been reported gone from Twitter. However, on its official accounts or blogs, Instagram has not mentioned anything regarding the removal of the heart-bursting animation. Now, in the absence of any information regarding the update, many of the people are wondering whether it was only a test. People are especially worried about it is only a test of the upgrade as it was not turned on for all customers. It is most likely that Instagram has heard negative comments from the internet and reverted the updates.

The Heartless Response from the Internet

The removal of updates is the result of the response that flooded Twitter. These updates remained a goldmine for comedy and funny comments. The release of heart-bursting animation remained a mystery for the people and so remained a mystery its removal. Most of the users termed these animations awkward as it can induce platonic relationships while sending these in response. Now, since these heart bursting animations have been removed, some people are feeling not so good. However, most of the people didn’t like the heart-bursting animation update. But, these updates acted as the starter for so many conversations among the people. It seems that Instagram was testing if the animation can impact thousands of users. Amidst all, the new heart bursting animation has now finally disappeared to the people’s surprise. Many of the people were still confused regarding the new updates, and after its removal, different people are giving their reactions in different ways.

Source :- https://haribook.com/blog/instagram-drops-dm-test-after-complaints-from-the-users/

Daisy Martin  is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

Twitter’s New Limiting-replies Feature Will Arrive Soon

Twitter is about to add a new feature to its service, and currently, they are still testing it. The feature will grant the users to choose their ideal audience who can repost or reply to their tweets. The following news has been issued by Twitter itself on 20th May 2020. The company stated that they are officially testing the feature using some of its employees’ Twitter account. In addition to this, they added that soon the feature would be included to all users on Twitter present globally.

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The above feature will ensure and maintain a lot of etiquette on Twitter. As earlier, everyone has the right to reply to anyone’s tweet, which often led to a fight. However, after the following feature, the users now have the right to select the people whose replies they can accept. The feature grants the users to toggle the reply feature from everyone to either the people whom you have tagged or the people whom you have followed.

Twitter also took help from one of the leading news providers, Meet the Press alongside NBC News for testing of their new feature. Through their official Twitter handle, Meet the Press took the interview of NBC News’s Andrea Mitchell. In their tweet, Meet the Press has tagged NBC News alongside Andrew Mitchell and they have toggled the reply feature set to only tagged people. The interview kept going on over replies without any interference.

However, instead of this feature, the users have their own way of throwing their opinion to random people. Similarly, in the post-interview, they used the tweet messages feature to interrupt Meet the Press and Andrew Mitchell. However, both of them seem out to be unphased during the interview sessions.

Following the new interview trend, the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, replied to the post-2019 February interview with Kara Swisher. He mentioned her Twitter account and added Kara to use the “reply to me” if they are ready for another interview. It was a clear intention of Jack to inform Kara along with the rest of its service users the feature is almost ready and soon it will be launched.

The limiting replies feature will definitely be going to stop the irrelevant fights through provocation that spread through unwanted replies. Alongside this, it will surely be going to make Twitter more personal than ever. Besides, Twitter in the past few months is trying really hard to overcome the bad influence and impact of the tweets of several negative figures over Twitter. Now we all need to wait to see what help will the limiting replies do in overcoming it.

Source :- https://haribook.com/blog/twitters-new-limiting-replies-feature-will-arrive-soon/

Daisy Martin  is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

Twitter to Fix its Retweet Issues

Twitter is changing the retweet displays, a move that has been for over the past few years. This could improve how people interact on the platform.

Twitter is modifying the ways of displaying retweets along with comments. The changes going to be introduced by Twitter will address the long-anticipated issue. Twitter is the most popular platform for people to interact with celebrities and public figures directly. However, there are also some other social media platforms such as Instagram or TikTok, which people use to get in touch with their favorite celebrities. These platforms can be used to follow celebrities, but it isn’t easy to interact directly with stars. But, the uniqueness of Twitter is not without oddities, thus making it quite unintuitive. It is difficult to reply and engage with the conversation as each conversation is its tweet.

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Fortunately, Twitter has paid to the issue and is taking steps to fix it, which is a big deal. According to a post on the official account of Twitter, the users of iOS can enjoy the feed of retweets along with comments. In simple terms, now onwards, you will be able to see and engage with the comments retweeted by the people. The users need to click on the button of the retweet appearing under the tweet to get access. The latest modification will remain enabled only for the users of iOS devices. However, the social media giant has announced it will soon roll out the plans for Android users. Also, the new updates will soon be rolled out for the browser versions.

Improving Retweets is going to be a big deal

Before the latest update of Twitter, the button of retweet count was almost useless for several years. Most of the people were not knowing whether the option was selectable or not. After clicking on the choice, a screen would appear displaying the name of every user who retweeted the specific tweet. There was an option to follow the tweets after clicking on the particular count button. Now, the newly introduced update will allow the users to see the comments along with the retweets. It is going to be an excellent experience for a large number of Twitter users. Moreover, the recent update has changed the way of interaction and engagement for better user experience. Now, onwards Twitter is going to become much more interactive and engaging for the users.

However, some users have still not got the update, and so they need to copy the URL of the original tweet and then paste it into the search bar of Twitter. It will help them to get a comprehensive list of comments retweeted by the users. However, it sounds cumbersome to some extent, and it is difficult as the people will need to go out of their way to go for an online solution. It is not surprising that such massively popular social media platforms often become the victim of their massive success. In such circumstances, these platforms leave the unsolved problems, which continue for years only because they do not affect their popularity and user bases. However, Twitter deserves appreciation for taking steps to sort out the issue and making its platform much more interactive.

Source :- https://haribook.com/blog/twitter-to-fix-its-retweet-issues/

Daisy Martin  is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

Twitter Removes Tweets of Venezuela and Brazil Presidents for Spreading Misinformation

Twitter has recently deleted the two tweets by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for spreading misinformation regarding the ongoing health emergency all across the world. Apart from eliminating the tweets of the Brazilian president, the social media giant has also removed the contents of the president of Venezuela and former mayor of New York City for violating the ban put by Twitter on the ongoing health emergency content. While removing the materials of the presidents of Brazil and Venezuela, it was said that the tweets of both are against the guidance provided by the authoritative sources of local and global public health information.

Meanwhile, a spokesperson of Twitter said in an email that the social media giant will continuously keep on reviewing the contents regarding emergency health outbreaks and will not hesitate to remove the tweets violating the rules of Twitter and spreading misinformation about emergency health outbreak. Further, the spokesperson said that the conversation of the current health emergency is going on all across the globe, and any misinformation will not only create panic among the people but also worsen the current situation. He further added that everywhere the government is promoting social distancing as it is the only solution to fight against the current health emergency. So, any content or tweet which has been posted on Twitter violating the measures of social distancing will be removed. The spokesperson of Twitter said that the social media giant is committed to remaining vigilant in such an emergency and focusing on protecting the conversation about public health. Twitter, by taking such steps, is helping the people to get the right information from only authoritative sources regarding the ongoing health emergency.

Amidst all, it has been revealed that the two Tweets of President Bolsonaro removed by Twitter included the videos in which he has endorsed the use of hydroxychloroquine as the potential treatment option for curing the ongoing health outbreak. Apart from that, president Bolsonaro was also seen as willing to end the current social distancing among the people. The Brazilian president said that he has come to know that the people of Brazil are eager to return to their work. Meanwhile, it is worthwhile to note that hydroxychloroquine still has not been proven as the potential treatment for curing the current health issue all across the globe. It is not the first time that the social media giants have removed such content spreading misinformation and violating the rules. Earlier, According to BBC News Brazil, Facebook has also removed the video of President Bolsonaro, which was posted on Instagram and the leading social network of Facebook. While eliminating the videos of the Brazilian president, Facebook said that both Instagram and Facebook couldn’t allow anyone to violate the community rules of social networking sites. The social media giants said that such contents would not only spread misinformation among the people but also lead to harm to the people physically.

Furthermore, Twitter has removed the videos of the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who was seen endorsing a brew which could eliminate the infectious genes of the ongoing health issue and save the people from the disease. Apart from these, Twitter has also removed the tweets of actress Alyssa Milano and John McAfee, who is a businessman and found spreading misinformation on the emergency health outbreak from their Twitter handle. The Twitter handle of the Federalist has been locked by the social media giant when it came to know that the federalist is endorsing to join a health outbreak party, which could expose a large number of people to such infection.

Source :- https://m-mcafee.uk.com/twitter-removes-tweets-of-venezuela-and-brazil-presidents-for-spreading-misinformation/

Kellie Minton is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

Twitter Testing New Instagram Stories Like Feature “Fleets”

“Twitter’s New Instagram Stories Like Feature Now Under Testing”

Twitter recently announced its new feature “Fleets” that will allow the user to upload pictures, videos, texts for one day. It’s like the story feature of Instagram that allows the same 24hrs visibility for the post. Twitter is one of the best sources to know about the latest incidents and what’s trending around the world. They are modifying the app to stay updated with the latest features.

Social media platforms like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat all have the stories feature, and now Twitter is looking for the same feature with a different name and some different features. Twitter is a big social media platform, and if they are releasing the Fleet feature, then it must be something more significant.

Currently, the Fleet feature is in testing, and a couple of users in Brazil are checking it. It is not released everywhere, but if it works well, Twitter will not spend more time to release it. Limited people are accessing Fleet feature; however, hopefully, soon it will be available for every Twitter user.

Unlike Snapchat, Instagram, Or Facebook, Twitter’s Fleet feature is quite different because, in Fleet, you have to slide upward to see more posts of the same user instead of tapping on the screen. After you make your Twitter account and follow some people who are active on Twitter, you can watch their stories from the top of the screen. If there are some Fleet posts, it will be indicated in the blue circle. After watch Fleet, it will turn grey, which means there are no more posts are available, and you have seen all posts of the particular person.

It’s a full-screen feature that accesses by just tapping on it. What makes it different from Instagram stories is that Fleet presented in vertical sliding and Instagram stories work in a horizontal way. In Twitter Fleet, you have to scroll for more posts, and Instagram Stories works by tapping on the screen for further posts. The process of adding images, texts, and videos are quite simple.

In order to make Fleet, you have to tap on your own profile picture where the primary option is making a text post. If you prefer to write text, then just remember, you cannot write more than 280 words in your Fleet. There will be no modification in the fonts, so your every text post on Fleet will be the same style of fonts. For quick writing and immediate posting, it’s a great feature because there are not many changes available if you are writing a post.

To make Fleet feature simple and easy, there are no stickers, sketches, or writing fonts available; however, you can post GIFs, videos, and photos. You can write on the image and then post it if you are expressing something to your viewers. The clarity of posts in Fleet is much better than Instagram stories, which is a good thing. You can check how many people have seen your Fleet after you post and can get the details watching the timing of every user. Just like Instagram stories, viewers can send some emoji reactions that will be received in your DM.

Because it’s a new feature, there is a lack of some more features that users will require. Currently, it’s on testing and looking for bugs if there is any. Every stuff that you will post on Fleet will be visible for 24hrs, but it will be possible if the company releases it worldwide.

Source :- https://securenorton.com/twitter-testing-new-instagram-stories-like-feature-fleets/

Kellie Minton  arrived on the cyber security scene in the early 2000s when virus and malware were still new and slowly evolving. Her longtime affair with writing with an interest in the cybersecurity industry, combined with her IT degree, has contributed to experience several aspects of security suite industry such as blogging at norton.com/setup  .

How to See Your Deleted Tweets on Twitter

If you have been using Twitter for a long time, then you must know how frustrating deleting a tweet accidentally could be. Some missteps and you have deleted your tweet forever, or have you? Some services allow you to recover your deleted tweets. They cannot be restored to your Twitter account but can be restored nonetheless.

1. The Standard Way

Even if it sounds creepy, Twitter keeps a record of all its users. The archive is not too hard to access. All you have to do is:

• Open Twitter and Log In.
• Tap on your Profile option on the top-right corner.
• Choose Settings and Privacy there.
• Locate Content settings.
• Click on Request your archive.
• There will be a pop-up notification telling you that Twitter has started preparing your archive.
• You will get an email from Twitter informing that the archive process is done. Wait till then.
• Press the Download Now button.
• The tweets will be in zip format.
• Extract them using third-party software.
• Choose a location for the tweets.
• Press Extract, and you will get your tweets back.
• Snap Bird

Twitter’s native method is undoubtedly the safest way to recover your tweets; it certainly is not the quickest. Snap Bird is one of those websites that let you find out a specific tweet. It also includes other person’s tweets or your texts.

The website has its several plus points, with the only negative aspect being the security. The app asks for permission to your Twitter profile. This includes your tweets and texts. You have to log in to your Twitter account through the app to provide the access. If you do not have any problems with this, then this is a superior option for you to get your tweets back quickly.

• Wayback Machine

This works not only for Twitter but for other sites as well. The Wayback Machine saves several states of websites for a period of years. There are over 370 billion pages saved there, and yes, Twitter is there too.

You can use the Wayback Machine:

• Provide the link and click Enter.
• The results will be in the form of a calendar. Click on the date you wish to choose from.
• The website will take you to your desired site while also letting you change any date or website through its menu on the top.

These are one of the most reliable options for you to recover your tweets. The native method still is and most likely will be the safest method to retrieve the tweets. If you know how long before you posted the tweet then Wayback Machine might be an option for you since it has screenshots from the specific dates available.

Source :- http://ennorton.uk/how-to-see-your-deleted-tweets-on-twitter/

Kellie Minton  is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

How to View All the Quotes for a Tweet

Twitter allows you to retweet the tweets of other people. You can customize the Quotes as per your wish and start adding it to the debate. In this article, you will get to know how to view all the Quotes for a Tweet.

Steps to Find All User Quoted Tweets

•    Go to the internet browser.

•    Click on the Twitter application.

•    Search for the user whose quoted tweets you wish to view.

•    Start copying the Twitter account URL.

•    In case you already know the users URL, then leave this step.

•    Start pasting the URL in the Twitter text box.

•    Now, you will get all the tweets.

Steps to Find a Single Tweet Quotes

•    Go to the Twitter application.

•    Search for the tweet.

•    Search for the downward arrow in the tweet.

•    It is given in the upper right-hand side of the screen.

•    Press on the tweet quotes.

•    Choose the Share Tweet through option.

•    Go to the Copy Link to Tweet option.

•    Click on the Search option.

•    Start pasting the tweet URL.

•    After that, click on the Search option.

You can also find a single tweet quotes  through TweetDeck

•    Go to the TweetDeck.

•    Sign in with the username and password registered with the Twitter account.

•    Find the tweet.

•    On the other side of the heart symbol, you will get a symbol with the three dots.

•    Press on the three dot symbol.

•    Choose the “See who quoted this Tweet ” option.

•    TweetDeck will create a section now.

Quote a Tweet

•    Click on the Twitter application.

•    Search for the tweet which you wish to quote.

•    Go through it so that you will get the Retweet symbol.

•    Press on the Retweet symbol.

•    Now, you will get a new window with the tweet.

•    Click on the “Add a comment”  message.

•    On that window, you create a new comment.

•    Press on the Tweet option for sharing the tweet.

You need to follow  the same procedure on your smartphone application:

•    Go to the Twitter application.

•    Search for the tweet which you wish to quote.

•    Press on the Retweet option.

•    Choose the Quote Tweet option.

•    Create a new comment.

•    Press on the Tweet option when you want to share the quote tweet.

Tweet Sorting

•    Find the Profile symbol.

•    Choose “Settings & Privacy” option.

•    Go to the “Account” option.

•    Search for the Content option.

•    Now you will get the box which indicated the “Show the best Tweets first.”

•    Unselect the Show the best Tweets first option.

Source :- https://mcafee-activate-en.com/how-to-view-all-the-quotes-for-a-tweet/

Kellie minton is an avid technical blogger, a magazine contributor, a publisher of guides at mcafee.com/activate, and a professional cyber security analyst. Through her writing, she aims to educate people about the dangers and threats lurking in the digital world.

How to Follow Your Facebook Friends on Twitter

You can find your Facebook friends on Twitter by entering their names. In case you have many friends on Facebook and wish to locate all of them on Twitter, then you have to find them separately. If you want to follow your Facebook friends on your Twitter account, then go through the instructions given on this article.

Steps to Follow Your Facebook Friends on Twitter

•    The first step you have to follow is to create a Yahoo account.

•    If you already have an account on Yahoo, then simply sign in to the Yahoo account.

•    Enter the email address and password for this procedure.

•    The log in process will take a few minutes to complete.

•    Once you have signed in to the Yahoo account, press on the Contacts button.

•    It is provided in the upper left-hand side of the screen.

•    Choose the Import Contact option.

•    This option is located on the menu list.

•    It will launch a new window that includes the menu list of different social media sites.

•    You need to choose Facebook from the menu list.

•    You will get the context menu on the screen.

•    There you have to sign in to the Facebook account.

•    Once you have signed in, you need to verify it.

•    After that,  click on the OK button.

•    Let Facebook import all your contacts to the Yahoo account.

•    Now, you have imported all the Facebook contacts successfully on the Yahoo account.

•    Press on the Done option.

•    After that, sign in to the account registered with Twitter.

•    Go down and press on the Search Contacts option.

•    It is given near the Yahoo symbol.

•    Now, the Yahoo will start loading on your device.

•    After completing the loading process, press on the Agree option.

•    It will successfully import all the contacts in your Yahoo to the Twitter account.

Key Points

•    You can search for the friends who are the registered users of Twitter.

•    If your friend has added privacy on their Twitter account, then you will be unable to find them.

•    This procedure permits you to search for only personal Facebook friends.

•    In case your contact in Facebook is registered with some other email ID, then you will be unable to find them on your Twitter account.

Source :- http://1norton.uk/how-to-follow-your-facebook-friends-on-twitter/

Kellie Minton  is a self-professed security expert; he has been making the people aware of the security threats. His passion is to write about Cyber security, cryptography, malware, social engineering, internet and new media. He writes for Norton security products at norton.com/setup.

How to Disable Image Preview in Twitter

If you wish to disable image preview on Twitter, then you can do this procedure in both the Android and iPhone. You cannot remove media previews by going to the official site of Twitter. Here’s how to disable image preview on Twitter.

Steps to Disable Image Preview on Mobile

•    Go to the Twitter application. By clicking on the application, it will open the Twitter feed webpage in case you are signed in already on its official website.

• In case you are not signed in already in the account associated with Twitter, then the first thing you have to do is to type the email ID and protected the password.

•    Press on the profile symbol. You will get this in the upper left-hand side of the display. It will start showing the pull-down list on display.

•    Press on the Settings and privacy option. You will get this option in the pull-down list. Now, you will get the settings webpage on display.

•    Click on the Display and sound button. It is located in the center of the webpage.

• You have to go down to the “General” column to get the Display and sound button.

•    Enable the “Media previews” option, and after enabling this option, it will turn into green color. You will get this option on the right-hand column of the webpage. You can also disable the “Media previews” option, and once you enabled that option, it will turn into white color.

• In case you are the Android user, then press on an azure color menu bar located to the right-hand side of the “Media previews” title for removing the tick mark from that option.

Steps to Disable Image Preview on Desktop

•    Understanding which image preview you wish to block. The Twitter official site will not permit you to stop the image previews, the only thing you can stop on your twitter account annoying content so that this will not appear in the Twitter feed.

•    Go to Twitter. Go to www.twitter.com. You will get the Twitter feed webpage on display in case you are not already signed in.

• In case you are already signed in, then type the email ID and protected password before moving to the next step.

•    Press on the profile symbol. It resembles a round picture located at the upper side of the webpage. By pressing on it, the pull-down menu starts showing on display.

•    Tap on the Settings and privacy option.

•    Press on the Privacy and safety button.

•    Go down to the “Safety” column.

•    Unselect the “Display media that may contain sensitive content” checkbox.

•    Press on the Save changes option.

•    Verify the changes you had made.

Source :- https://www-mcafee-activate.com/how-to-disable-image-preview-in-twitter/

Karen Minton is a creative person who has been writing blogs and articles about cybersecurity. She writes about the latest updates regarding mcafee.com/activate and how it can improve the work experience of users. Her articles have been published in many popular e-magazines, blogs, and websites.