📡 Is TikTok really powerful?
Pulse #148 — and a few other stories...
Hey Pulse fam 👋 Behrouz here. I’m back again with another Pulse to help you catch up on this week’s news, some new useful apps and tools — and tricks, and some of the features that are coming to your favourite platforms and much more!
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This Week in the News
The iPhone 13 could have satellite connectivity [link]
Clubhouse is adding spatial audio effects to make users feel like they’re really in the room [link]
Twitter starts launching Ticketed Spaces for some iOS users [link]
CryptoPunks blasts past $1 billion in lifetime sales as NFT speculation surges [link]
TikTok bans viral ‘milk crate challenge’ over safety concerns [link]
Apple’s backing down, Netflix’s games are here, and Microsoft Azure’s mess [link]
Microsoft’s Xbox Cloud, better TwitterSpaces, and OnlyFans [link]
😖 a gift for you.
Worth Your Attention
Apple’s Mistake by Ben Thompson on Stratechery.
he talks about Apple’s approach to handle CSAM, and why it’s not the best…
Is TikTok powerful? by Seth Godin on Seth’s Blog.
this is an interesting look at what actually is the “power” TikTok has — or not; definitely worth a read.
If you’re thinking about having your own newsletter, Substack has a bunch of resources here. Third session of Substack Grow, a crash course for Substack writers, was about design, and one of my favourite sessions. Here’s a round up of that I highly recommend 👇
Chart of the Week
Global App Spending Set For Another Record Year
With everything going on with Apple and their antitrust allegations and case, this is really interesting.
read more on Statista.
& more stats
Walmart’s e-commerce business is set to hit $75B in sales this year [link]
Snapchat introduced Trends [link]
Tools & Apps
Hourglass: Dynamic Mac desktop [macOS]
make your desktop a bit less boring
Poet.so: Capture & share tweets as beautiful images
makes you not wanna screenshot tweets.
and for those who ‘pay attention’ to Pulse, here’s something no one else has seen yet… and it’s just the a little part of the beginning… check this out…
Spotted
Instagram keeps working on the “Account Health” section [link]
Instagram is working on Collectable stickers [link]
Instagram is considering renaming the “Rooms” tab to “Calls” [link]
Instagram keeps working on the “Call Friends” section in the Rooms tab by adding a search bar [link]
Instagram continues to work on the Fan Club feature [link]
Here's the approximate earnings screen of the Instagram’s Fan Club feature [link]
Instagram is working on the ability to set a status that will be visible to friends for 24 hours [link]
Facebook continues to work on the Status feature [link]
Twitter continues to work on Recorded Spaces [link]
Twitter is working on vector Tweet Reactions Animations [link]
Twitter is working to allow the Fleets composer to be used to edit images from the gallery [link]
Twitter has also been showing signs of working on Communities lately [link]
Rarible is working on “Pay with Credit Card” NFT checkout flow [link]
🐦 Tweets of the Week
Fun Stuff
and now we’re done for this week
see ya!