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After years of being slow to make significant product changes, Twitter is proving that it can move faster. The social network announced on Tuesday the rollout of two major new features: group direct messages and native video sharing and editing. The option to privately message a group of users has been an obvious and frustrating omission from Twitter for years.

Facebook appears to be testing a chat sidebar designed for users with smaller screens. Reader Matteo Gamba of TransferWise shared the screenshot below with SocialTimes. Readers: Have you seen anything similar?

It's fun to share secret photos with friends. It's funner to do it in plain sight. Super-secret messaging service Wickr just launched a new way to share secure photos within its app and with friends via Facebook right in your timeline.

YouTube today announced it has finally stopped using Adobe Flash by default. The site now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11, Apple's Safari 8, and in beta versions of Mozilla's Firefox browser. At the same time, YouTube is now also defaulting to its HTML5 player on the web.

It's not just you: Snapchat's best friends feature is no more, at least for now. The latest Snapchat update, which added a new Discover feature and rearranged the app's settings and contacts menus, also removed the app's ability to see the "best friends" of people in your friends list.

Snapchat received a massive update just 2 days ago - including a new tool for content discovery, but no one told us about a fun, new feature that makes adding friends a lot more easy. Also Read: Snapchat Reveals Community Geofilters Apparently, the team at the self-destructing messenger forgot to mention that you can now invite friends, followers,...

From friends' recommendations to information about the places and things that interest you, Facebook helps you connect with the world around you. To better show you this content at just the right place and time, today we're launching a new feature called place tips.

If you visit YouTube during the Super Bowl, you likely won't miss Anheuser-Busch, which bought the masthead of Google's video site. But the brewer's also going big on Facebook, where it's paying for promotions and hosting autoplay videos.

One of the fruits of Facebook's recent hackathon in Seattle's Space Needle was introduced Wednesday by software engineer Bob Baldwin, who announced in a Facebook post that thread titles in the social network's Messenger application can now include emoji. Baldwin wrote: You can now put emoji in Facebook Messenger thread titles!

The GIF is one of the internet's native art forms and few websites have as big a repertory of the medium as Imgur. Still, finding the right GIF can be hard, and making your own is even harder, so the website is now introducing its own GIF creator.

Tumblr began rolling out a major update on Wednesday that makes it more appealing to serious writers. While the blogging service remains hugely popular, with 420 million active users and 220 million blogs, many of its posts are only bits of text and media - abbreviated flotsam and jetsam - including celebrity quotes, animated GIFs, dog photos and so on.

You know how convenient that speed scroller is in your mobile Carousel app? Well, now it's arrived on the desktop version of Dropbox's photo app. No longer do you have to plow through all your photos to find the right ones to share or to use for a new album.

Pinterest is the number 1 platform for traffic referral. And a lot of this comes the easiness with which users can "pin" content to their own boards, directly from the websites they visit. Well Pinterest is making this even better. Also Read: Pinterest Introduces New Way To Edit Pins Pinning from a website is as simple...

Are you a Twitter newbie looking for some expert Twitter tips that will have you Tweeting like a pro in no time? Here's our 10 Twitter tips for newbies that will make sure you start off on the right foot and build good habits to help gain followers, network with your peers, and command Twitter authority like a seasoned Tweeter.

Whether you're at work, stuck on the road or on a chairlift heading up a mountain, your phone can bring you the information you need, as long as you know how to find it.