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Instagram spruced up its DM features on Monday. You can now share your live location with friends, handy for meetups at concerts or other crowded places. The social platform also now lets you add nicknames in one-on-one or group chats, and there are over 300 new stickers to share in DMs. You can turn on the new location-sharing feature for up to one hour. It only displays to people in your private DMs (one-on-one or group), and locations cant be forwarded to anyone outside the designated chat. The feature is off by default, and youll see a You are sharing your location indicator at the top of every message thread where you enable it. You can also stop sharing it manually anytime. Instagram Nicknames let you add aliases for yourself or friends inside DMs. Share an inside joke with a nickname, or simplify lengthy usernames so your friends are easier to recognize, Instagrams announcement blog post suggests. The nicknames only appear in your DMs, not anywhere else on the platform. You can pick or swap out your nickname anytime and choose which friends in a chat have permission to change yours. To create a moniker, tap on the chat name at the top of your conversation, select Nicknames and choose the username you want to change. Finally, Instagram added 17 new sticker packs for DMs, making over 300 new ones available. You can favorite the stickers you like, including those your friends share.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/instagram-dms-have-a-new-location-sharing-feature-185959274.html?src=rss
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Spotify just announced that its begun rolling out a new Recents page that keeps tabs on everything youve been listening to. This section of the app will hold onto content for up to 90 days and integrates with music, podcasts and even audiobooks. The page also keeps an eye on saved content. The platform says this should be useful for picking up a paused podcast, finding last weeks earworm or finally playing that saved album or audiobook. This page replaces the Listening History tab and will work for both free and Premium subscribers. All you have to do is tap on your profile picture, open the sidebar and click on Recents. Everything will be listed in chronological order, but there are some available filters to help winnow down the search. Spotify also says users will be able to find this page by scrolling through the home feed. The tool releases today for iOS and Android, but could take a while before it reaches every user throughout the globe. Spotify $SPOT delivery a strong Q3 and really turned on the cash printer lately. Here's everything you need to know pic.twitter.com/RPVPDm7ee3 Investing visuals (@ZeevyInvesting) November 13, 2024 The music and Joe Rogan streaming app has been busy lately. It beefed up its audiobook tools, which is nice, and added an in-app cover art maker for playlists. CEO Daniel Ek recently crowed that 2024 will likely be the platforms first full year of profitability. The companys most-recent quarterly financial results show an increase in year-to-year revenue of 19 percent and a free cash flow growth increase of 238 percent, totalling over $4 billion. It also now has 602 million monthly active users and the stock currently hovers at around $470 per share. Musicians, however, still get $0.003 to $0.005 per stream. What the heck, Ek.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/music/spotify-will-now-save-your-listening-history-for-up-to-90-days-183119640.html?src=rss
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Metas Threads is pushing out another test that could address a major long-running complaint about the service. The company is experimenting with allowing users to set the non-algorithmic following feed as the default, Mark Zuckerberg shared in a post. The change, according to Zuckerberg, will allow users to select any feed as their default, including the newly announced custom feeds. But longtime Threads users will likely be relieved to finally have the ability to make following their default view. Up until now, Meta has pushed users to its for you algorithmic feed, which has long been criticized for its problems with engagement bait and its uncanny ability to push a mix of bizarre posts from total strangers to the top of users feeds As part of the test, Meta will also make the ability to change your feed more visible in the app. Zuckerberg didnt share how many users would be part of the test or how long it might take for the feature to become official. Interested to see how and if people use this, he wrote. The update is the latest in a series of changes Meta has pushed over the last couple of weeks as it has faced surging growth from rival Bluesky. Bluesky, which has seen an influx of new users since the election, defaults to a feed of content from accounts you follow and doesnt have a centralized algorithmic feed, though its had custom feeds for more than a year.This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/social-media/threads-latest-test-will-finally-let-you-make-the-following-feed-the-default-180857332.html?src=rss
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