X, the company owned by Elon Musk and which was previously known as Twitter has come up with a new feature for its paid users. This feature lets the users to hide the list of posts that they have liked. This major development follows same updates on the on the rival social networks i.e., Threads and Bluesky, where the users were given the option to view their own liked posts.

For the paid users of X, now there is a new setting available right under the profile customization that lets the users to hide the Likes tab on their profile page. This means that whenever someone visits your profile, they will not be able to see the list of the posts that they have liked. In addition, this feature will conceal the liked posts of the user from X’s application programming interfaces, which are the tools that let other application to interact with X’s platform. Till now all the likes on X were accessible which means that anyone could see a specific user’s profile and see what the posts have been liked by the user. With the new feature, Elon Musk has given extra advantage to the paid subscribers, letting them to like the posts without worrying about others seeing their preferences.

In contrast, users on Threads can view their favorite posts through the “Your Likes” tab in the Settings, and these posts are kept private. Liked posts are already set to private by default on Bluesky’s own website and app. However, the Bluesky platform offers flexibility, as apps utilizing the Bluesky API can decide whether to display a likes tab on a user’s profile if they would like to make this information visible to the public.

In conclusion, paid users of Elon Musk’s social media platform X now have the option to hide the posts they have liked on their profiles. This feature gives users more control over their favorite content and privacy settings and is in line with recent updates on competing platforms.

Effect House which is the AR development platform of TikTok has now officially come out of beta testing phase. This platform lets its users to create stunning AR effects for TikTok videos. now you can easily get Effect House 3.0 and become part of official Effect House of TikTok community on Discord. This community is the place to stay updated on the latest happenings, office hours, challenges and connect with many other effect creators.

Effect House is in the arena for one year and during this time period, creators have made more than 21 billion videos using its effects. The videos with these effects have attracted more than 8.6 trillion videos all over the world. Effect House community on Discord has reached more than 400,000 members. In last year, TikTok has come up with more than 20 updates to Effect House. These updates include many AI powered tools e.g. Asset Studio and Art Maker. These tools let the creators generate the assets for their effects using artificial intelligence. It has also got new features like User Media Texture, which allows you to use the images from your camera roll in your effects and Material Editor, which makes it simple and easy to add visually appealing textures as well as materials to improve your effects’ look.

The official launch of Effect House from TikTok coincides with recent introduction of Effect Creator Rewards fund. This fund will reward the creators for different effects that they create by using Effect House. This fund is of $6 million and it pays the creators based on how the users will engage with their effects. Here is how it works, if your effects get used in 500,000 unique videos in the time frame of 90 days of being published, you will earn $700 USD. If there are additional 100,000 video published in same 90 days’ time period, you will collect extra $140. With the official launch of Effect House, TikTok is changing the game and competing more closely with its compatriots like Meta and Snapchat.

YouTube Music has been recently updated and its “Now Playing” screen has got a fresh new look. One of the most notable changes is the new comments section. This allows the people read as well as write the comments from the app. The update has got the buttons that are very simple and easy to use. It also includes bigger pictures of album art cover as well as many more.

For those who are living under the rock and don’t know What YouTube Music is, it is a famous music streaming platform that lets its users to listen to a wide variety of music on YouTube. It is equipped with a wide collection of music tracks from different genres and artists, making is simple and easy for music junkies to discover new tunes and enjoy their favorite songs. The newly updated designs are for both Android and iPhone. YouTube Music has added new button for comments and the users can see what the ither people have said about official music video on YouTube. People can also write their own thoughts about the music which makes the app more interactive as well as social. The comments button can be seen under the album cover picture. When you will press it, a panel will pop up with the comments. Right next to the comments, there are some buttons for like or dislike the video, share it, save it, download it and listen to radio based on the song.

These buttons are hidden and they only show up when you tapped on the album cover. Moving the buttons under the song title makes them simple and easy to find. One of the minor changes is that the button to switch between the song and video is now white instead of similar color as the background. The redesign of YouTube Music comes after they launched ‘Samples’ which is a new feature that shows short videos similar to TikTok. Samples includes short videos of official music videos and the live performances from the collection of YouTube.