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Zuckerberg Announces 32-Person Video Calling Feature for Whatsapp

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On Thursday, Founder of Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed ‘Communities on WhatsApp,’ as well as several new features such as 32-person video calling, in-chat polls, and groups with up to 1,024 users, which will be useful for groups in addition to Communities.

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Mark Zuckerberg officially confirmed that ‘Communities on WhatsApp’ will begin rolling out to users globally over the next few months and will be available to everyone.

“Today we’re launching Communities on WhatsApp. It makes groups better by enabling sub-groups, multiple threads, announcement channels, and more. We’re also rolling out polls and 32-person video calling. All secured by end to end encryption so your messages stay private,” said the Meta CEO.

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WhatsApp has been working on Communities, a significant update to how users will be able to interact on WhatsApp in groups that are important to them.

Communities such as neighbourhoods, school parents, and workplaces can now connect multiple groups under one umbrella to arrange group chats on WhatsApp.

To get started, Android phone users can click on the latest communities tab located at the top of their chats and iOS users can click on the bottom.

They will now be able to create new Communities from scratch or join existing ones.

Users can effortlessly switch among available groups once in a community to get the information they need, when they need it, and administrators can send important updates to all the members of the Community.

WhatsApp Communities aims to raise the bar for how organisations communicate by providing a level of security and privacy which is not found anywhere else.

Other features such as in-chat polls, 32-person video calling, and groups with up to 1,024 participants can be used in any group but will be especially useful in Communities.

The company has been collaborating with about 50 organizations in 15 countries to develop Communities to cater to their needs, and the feedback so far indicates that these software inventions are assisting groups like these in better organising and achieving their goals.

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Youtube to introduce new feature to zoom in and out while watching videos

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Youtube has revealed a number of visual adjustments and user interface (UI) modifications to make the application feel “cleaner, more lively,” and simpler to use for multiple purposes. The most significant update is the pinch-to-zoom feature, which lets users enlarge the playing screen to focus on particular details or components.

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Google is updating the YouTube app with a fresh appearance and a number of new features that will make watching videos more engaging and modern. Youtube announced in a recent blog post that, in light of YouTube’s recent 17th birthday, it was thinking about giving it a little makeover While YouTube has made a lot of improvements and changes, the “pinch to zoom” feature and “video navigation” are the most significant ones.

The pinch-to-zoom feature will let viewers zoom in and out of Youtube videos on both mobile and desktop devices. Earlier YouTube users had to keep their fingertips on the screen for the video to remain zoomed in. Users may now watch the rest of the Youtube video in greater detail since the video will remain zoomed in unless prompted.

Youtube noted in a blog post, “You may now simply zoom in and out of a movie on your iOS or Android phone using pinch to zoom. When you let go, the video remains zoomed in so you may see the rest of it in more detail. Allow your fingers to rest!”

The platform also made modifications to the way videos are navigated. The “precise seeking” function displays a row of thumbnails anytime you move to a specific point in the video. If you’re viewing a tutorial or a lecture and want to jump to a specific section of the video, this is quite helpful.

Youtube mentioned in the blog post, “Precise seeking builds on our recent improvements to video navigation that help you quickly find the parts you’re most interested in. We launched the ability to long press anywhere on the player to seek and double tap with two fingers to skip chapters. We also added a graph that shows frequently replayed moments in a video.”

Links to YouTube in video descriptions will now become buttons. In order to reduce distractions, actions like “like,” “share,” and “download” have also been moved to the lower side. The corporation has given the subscription button more weight by highlighting it more, which is good news for creators.

The subscription button is now visible to users in a white oval box right next to the creator’s name. The update also includes an ambient mode, which adds a soft effect just beneath a video. This feature will be available on both mobile and desktops in the dark theme.

To make the colors on the screen stand out more, Youtube has also updated and slightly darkened the dark theme. The color of hashtags on YouTube has also changed from blue to white, but their functionality and placement have not altered.

Although Pinch-to-Zoom in particular is a useful and major upgrade to the platform’s overall UI, all the other changes are relatively minor. It will be fascinating to observe how the other updates affect in-app engagement and clip finding actions even though they are expected to have less effect on the apps functionality.

Recently, YouTube debuted its brand-new “Unique Handles” feature, which gives users and creators a distinct handle ID that can be utilized to identify them.

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Twitter new feature allows users to combine GIFs, Photos, Videos & Memes in Single Tweet

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Twitter is unveiling a brand-new feature that will enable users to tweet memes, gifs, and images all at once. The new feature will be released on both iOS and Android. 

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According to the company, everyone would be able to share different sorts of media via a single tweet. Late on Wednesday, Twitter stated in a blog post, “This feature will roll out globally to iOS and Android, with a chance to see mixed media Tweets on the web.”

Earlier anyone who wished to share several media types had to do it through different Tweets. Now, when users post their Tweet, they may choose and post a mix of up to four different forms of media, including images, memes, GIFs, and videos. They can do so by clicking the photo icon in the Tweet composer on the Twitter application.

Through this new feature, users can also change the layout of their media while creating a Tweet. Alessandro Paluzzi, a reverse engineer, discovered the feature for the first time in April. 

In addition to the option to post multiple media in a single tweet. Twitter also launched a vertical video experience similar to Instagram Reels in some countries. Twitter revealed that it would be releasing two improvements that would enhance the viewing experience for full-screen videos and combine video discovering with a new video carousel. Twitter made this announcement in a Tweet:

“Now on iOS, videos on your timeline will open in our full-screen immersive video player, where you can swipe up to keep discovering more content. Some of you on iOS and Android will also see recommended content in a new video carousel on the Explore “For You” page”.

Currently, the Explore tab video carousel assists users in discovering more videos as well as potentially interesting Tweets and Trends. This feature is currently accessible to users of Twitter on Android and iOS in a few selected nations. The improved immersive media viewer, according to the company, opens videos to a full-screen mode with a single click, enabling users to quickly get the complete, immersive viewing experience.

The company stated that the users of the Twitter app for iOS only needed to click or tap on a video to turn on this new feature. Twitter users noticed right away that this feature resembled the way they discovered and viewed videos on TikTok.

Recently, Twitter also introduced the new “Edit Button” feature for Twitter Blue users. in selected locations. Since Twitter Blue membership is not available in India, Indian Twitter users would have to wait a bit longer to enjoy the service. On October 3, Twitter sent a tweet post telling users that the Edit Button was now being made available to Twitter Blue subscribers in New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.

Through this new feature selected users can now edit their tweets on Twitter, which was previously not available. The tweet will, however, include the time of the most recent edit at the bottom. Users can also view the complete history of the editing to see what has already been written in the tweet.

Twitter is continuously test out new features and gaining knowledge from users’ interactions with the service. With over 23.6 million active Twitter users as of January 2022, India makes up the third-largest global audience on Twitter.