comparison of user features of messaging platforms
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How to Prevent X’s Audio and Video Calls Feature From Revealing Your IP Address
X owner Elon Musk is dreaming of a world where people ditch their cell phones and instead make audio and video calls on the social media platform. Musk’s vision has elicited nearly collective horror from users of his platform—as well as potential risks to their IP addresses. X began rolling out the audio and video…
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How to Send Disappearing Voice Messages in WhatsApp
First, there were phone calls. Then we switched to texting, and stopped talking to each other for a while. Still, there was something missing: Phone calls take too long, while texting isn’t convenient for lengthy thoughts. And thus, the voice message was born—a simple way to share your message off the cuff without having to…
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How to Finally Add Links to Your Instagram Stories Without Having 10,000 Followers
One of the many hierarchies of Instagram has been the link-in-stories feature. You only got access to it if you had more than 10,000 followers, or if you had a verified account, so most users couldn’t add a link directly from their Instagram story. This is also why the link aggregators for Instagram bios got…
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A Year Later, Telegram Finally Launches the Group Video Calls It Promised
The day that Telegram gets into group video calling has finally arrived. In case you forgot, that’s OK. It has been more than a year since the company announced it was working on the feature. But hey, better late than never, right?