Twitter cuts down daily follows from 1,000 to 400

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Twitter hopes to combat spam and bot accounts by limiting the amount of users you can follow in a day. It’s now down from 1,000 to 400. Admittedly for us, that’s still a whole lot of accounts to follow in a 24-hour period. "As a part of our commitment to building a healthy service, we remain focused on stopping spam and abuse on Twitter," a spokesperson for Twitter told Engadget. "We found that having a high daily follow rate contributed to follower churn, and as a result, we are reducing the daily follow rate limit from 1,000 to 400."

Follower churn is described as the process of following and unfollowing accounts. It’s done to get a users’ attention and try to get others to follow back and increase follower count.

Netflix teases April 17th debut of Beyonce’s Coachella documentary

It’s not been explicitly said, but rumour has been going around that Beyonce’s much-hyped Coachella performance will be getting it a documentary movie on Netflix. And a new teaser by the streaming service suggests it’s coming soon—April 17th, to be exact. It’s going to come out just ahead of the 2019 festival’s second weekend. The teaser just has the word Homecoming but it seems like a callback to both the yellow outfits Beyonce and her team wore for her performance as well as the launch of her Homecoming Scholars Swards Program. With the 17th coming up, we’re sure to hear more pretty soon. 

Source: Engadget 

Canadian Reviewer Weekly Roundup – 3/31 – 4/6

Bryan Baeumler launches HeyBryan home services app

Apple hires Tesla’s head of electric powertrains

‘Driveclub’ game franchise to shut down by end of March 2020

Apple Music might get Chromecast support

Microsoft refreshes the Surface Book 2

Facebook considers launching ‘high-quality news tab’

Volkswagen calls its full-size electric SUV concept the ID ROOMZZ, because why not?

Audi teases AI:me self-driving city car concept

Netflix confirms season 2 of ‘The Umbrella Academy’

Twitter tests out labels for conversation threads

Skype now supports group calls of up to 50 people

Netflix announces cast of ‘Cowboy Bebop’ adaptation, John Cho takes lead role

Apple adds another Google AI expert to its team

Amazon Prime Video has 2,500 hours of Jim Henson Co. content

Netflix’s iOS app no longer supports AirPlay, cites ‘technical limitations’

‘Super Meat Boy Forever’ pushes back release date

April was the expected release of Super Meat Boy Forever. But its developer Team Meat has announced a delay to “after but not too far after April 2019.” The developers believed they are close to finishing the game and could possibly meet the deadline if they pushed themselves to the limit. However, they wanted to finish it at a “healthy and sustainable pace,” which is something we can definitely support. This endless runner game is slated to come to mobile as well as consoles, PC, and Linux. It features procedurally generated gameplay that adapts to a player’s skill level.

Source: Polygon