Tag Archives: Android

The Twitter apps have started doing something new, something annoying. Any time there is a substantial number of new tweets, your feed refreshes automatically, and scrolls all the way up. It doesn’t care if you’re reading anything. It just scrolls up and you lose your place in your feed. The …

Censorship isn’t limited to just the news that you see, or don’t see. It also limits how average people communicate and governments will clamp down mass communication channels when it needs to deal with dissent. Messaging apps are one of the first casualties of these clamp downs but given the …

Google has been trying to build a great messaging app for quite a few years now. It actually had a great chat app a long time ago; it was called Gtalk. Gtalk was great because it was light and suited the average internet speed most people had back in the …

Instagram has interactive stickers that you can add to stories. The stickers allow you to add polls, ask questions, and as of recently, invite users to a chat group. The Instagram Chat sticker lets anyone viewing your story request to join a conversation. Since the story will be viewed by …

Snapchat is an app built on the whole concept of missing out if you don’t engage it immediately. If you don’t see a message within a limited time frame, it’s gone. All your friends will be talking about it and you’ll be out of the loop. It’s either a limited …

Instagram lets you DM people i.e. direct message people. You can easily exchange private messages with users who follow you. You can even send message requests to users who don’t follow you. Additionally, you can use this same feature to send self-destructing photos on Instagram. The app basically has a …

Whataspp asks to access your phone’s contacts. If you allow the app access to this information, it becomes much easier for you to send messages to any one of your contacts however, you can still use Whatsapp without giving it access to your contacts. You can add a contact on …

A good Snap or Snap story takes time, effort, and the right stickers to make. Snapchat has loads of stickers, both static and animated. They feature emoji, Bitmoji, and your location. The location tagging stickers are new and basically allow you to tag a nearby location in your Snap. Here’s …

Twitter was once a social media platform based solely on short messages that were only 140 characters long. At the time, it wasn’t a drag on your data plan to use Twitter on the go but the social media platform has changed over the years. Now, your tweet can be …

Whatsapp has a new feature; group calls. It works with both video and voice calls. You can call up to four people in one group call. The group call feature isn’t the most obvious so you might still be wondering if it’s rolled out to everyone yet or not. It …