Facebook Inc Has Finally Decided To Upgrade The Security of Instagram

Instagram is a Facebook's photo and video sharing app which has now become more secure

In today’s world it’s not hard to take out any person’s personal information – as all the information is usually available on the all the social media networks. These social media applications have become more vulnerable with time; making it easier for hackers to invade user’s privacy. The largest social media network Facebook Inc. has taken a stand and bold move against this problem and is aiming at making its platform more secure for its customers where they can easily and without any stress socialize and connect with their friends.

In order to combat major hackers on the internet, the photo sharing platform Instagram now has included two factor authentications to its video sharing platform, as reported by TechCrunch. Instagram was acquired by the social media website back in 2012 – ever since the acquisition was made by Facebook, the photo sharing application has only grown and prospered. According to a report by the website, the video sharing platform has cross the mark of 400 million users officially.

Furthermore, a number of people are attracted towards the platform now including high profile celebrities, artists and brand – because of this reason even the hackers are encouraged to hack in to their profiles. An advanced level of security was one of the major requirements of the photo sharing app since a while now; however it has finally decided to provide that level of security to its users.

According to the latest advancement made by the social media company, from now on the customers will be asked to verify their profiles through their phone numbers; they will be required to type in their cellphone number, on which they will receive an authentication code. Once the user types their username and password, they will be required to mention the verification code as well hence making it difficult for the hackers to login into user’s accounts. From now onwards, hacking user’s accounts would not be as easy as it used to be which they used to do by either guessing or phishing a customer’s account.

The tool of two factor authentications is now being used by a number of applications especially the parent company of Instagram; it has been using this security advancement since 2011. Additionally, Facebook and Instagram are not the only applications and websites that use the security tool; Gmail also offers the same service. The social media network has been highly criticized because of the low level security provided by Instagram as it was exposed to hackers.

According to a spokesperson of the social media site, this service will be made available to all the customers soon enough – at this point in time, it is not widely available to all the users of the photo sharing application. Some of the high profile celebrities have been a victim of such cases, including Kris Jenner as well as Taylor Swift. Furthermore, there is another offer that is being provided by the video sharing app, according to which a user can be easily able to switch between to accounts instead of logging in and out to switch between accounts.

Twitter Inc Loses Four Top Executives

Twitter stock has been called 'Junk' after the departure of four top executives; analysts believe the management won't bring better days for the company.

On Sunday, the chief executive officer of Twitter Inc. confirmed the news of four top executives leaving the company that included Katie Stanton, Kevin Weil, Skip Schipper and Alex Roetter. The major problem of the organization solely lies in its inability to attract users. After the news of the four executives leaving surfaced, the stock of the company plunged 4% during the trading session on Monday.

An analyst at Global Equities, Trip Chowdhry called Twitter stock – junk. The stock expert believes that the micro-blogging company’s stock is likely to fall to $5 per share. He strongly believes that bringing in a new team of executives will not bring a change and the stock will still be categorized with GoPro, Box and Fitbit; it will never reach to Facebook Inc.’s level.

As Kevin Weil, the core product head leaves the company, Adam Messinger will be taking his place who was initially the technology chief. He has been working for the company for over five years so the employees are quite familiar with him; currently Twitter is not looking to hire a new product head, according to the social media network’s spokesman.

Time after time, the social media website has stated that the worst days are over when only it is always just a beginning of such days. Initially when the board re-appointed Jack Dorsey and chief financial officer Anthony Noto was hired, the same statement was made, according to which the company was to see better days. Unfortunately, better days have not yet arrived for the micro-blogging website.

Mr. Chowdhry, after being so cynical, still believe that there is hope for the company as it can expand and promote itself in Asian countries including the second largest country in terms of population, India. He stated that it could become a tool for the government to keep a check on the citizens and could make investigations easy as well.

He also suggested that in case the website shows signs of gaining more users, it would be the perfect time for the investors to sell the stock. He added that the novelty aspect of the stock is going away so the investors should seize the opportunity since it will be quite difficult for the stock to regain its novelty.

Additionally, the CEO stated that after Mr. Messinger is appointed as the product head, he will be working closely with him – day and night to work on building a better experience for the users. The stock, on Monday fell by 4.6% and is currently being traded at a share price of $17.02, which is close to year another all-time low.

Twitter, Inc. Hit A New All-Time Low Share Price On Friday

The social media website has hit a new all time low yet again after its initial all time low share price back in August 2015.

On January 8, 2016, Twitter Inc.’s stock dropped by as much as 2% hitting its new all-time low at $19.76. In the past five trading days, the stock has managed to drop by 15% due to poor user growth. Investors have been quite unhappy because of the sluggish user growth of the social media network. Ever since ex-CEO and co-founder of Twitter, Dick Costolo stepped down from his position in June; the company has been constantly going through a rough patch.

The investors at Wall Street have continuously questioned the strategic direction of the micro-blogging company while others have pointed their fingers at the slow user growth for the decline in the stock. Ever since its one year high of $53.49 back on April 7, 2015 Twitter stock has fallen by as much as 60%. In October, the social media website reported better than expected earnings for the third quarter for fiscal year 2015. For upcoming further quarter, investors and analysts are predicting revenue to be somewhere between the range of $695 to $700 million.

For the latest quarter, 320 million active users were reported by the organization which shows that the monthly active users have just increase by 4 million since its last report. The fourth quarter earnings for the current fiscal year are expected to come out on February 10, 2016. The stock, at this point in time, is in a crisis situation.

In other news, Jack Dorsey stated that he has been looking for different ways in which Twitter users can post tweets specifically something that lets the users make longer tweets. He added that the customers of the social networking website are already doing that by posting the screenshots of the text but he said he would like the tweets to be short, sweet and conventional. According to the announcement, the tweets will now be of 10,000 characters per person from an initial 140-character limit.

It could mark as the end of Twitter when other smaller rivals such as Snapchat and Vine are giving its users more attractive features and options through which they are able to attract a good audience. Back in November 2013, when the company went public it was trading at a share price of $26 per share on the NYSE. The first fall that it witnessed was back in August when it dropped below its initial public offering price and this was the second hit.

Stock of the micro-blogging website is down 22% since it went public but it is not the lowest performing stock; in comparison Square stock is as low as twitter’s as well. It has fallen about 13.8% this week.

Facebook Releases tvOS kit For Apple Support

The social media giant has released a new software developing kit for tvOS users

According to recent Facebook news as presented by 9to5Mac, it was seen that the social media giant released its first development kit which is to be compatible with Apple's tvOS. As the management of the company, it was reported that this software development kit has been offered to the software developers by the media giant to provide them with a wider platform to experiment with their developing skills in a much improved manner and that with the new SDK, this will be made easier for them. The new kit reportedly works in interesting ways to promote the usage of the social media network for the Apple TV users.

The SDK kit has been deemed as an important addition to the hardware being made by the Facebook software business and that it is believed to be established for the sole reason of a better than before social media experience for the users along with options to share posts on their profiles as well as other options like Facebook Analytics. Moreover, the SDK coming in from Mark Zuckerberg's company is being considered as an effort made especially by the giant to put in their input in the development of software for tvOS. 

According to reports, the SDK has a couple of interesting features which might bring a lot of developers to buy the kit in order to test their developing skills on the gadget. The users will be able to log in to all the different profiles and accounts being used on the SDK through a single account only. The social media company clearly believes that the users might find it an unwanted task to use a remote control to get their tasks done on the kit, which is why a new option has been given to them on the new kit which will give them a chance to log in on the gadget by using a confirmation code. 

As per statements by the Facebook management, it has been made official that the giant is also working on an app using which the users will be getting to experience the TV experience in a much more advanced manner.The users on the tvOS will also be shown similar content on their searches based on the social media experience that they might have had on the platform. This will determine a better approach to searching as well, according to analysts' belief. The developers who make more apps on the kit will also be able to share their production with others on the network.