5 ways Twitter Canada celebrates Black History Month 2022

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Countries like Canada celebrate Black History Month each February to highlight the achievements of Black communities around the world. In honour of this annual event, Lade Ogunsanya, Twitt'ers global co-chair of @Blackbirds, has written a post on Twitter Canada's blog highlighting how the social media company is celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth. If you're unfamiliar with @BlackBirds, it's Twitter's business resource group for Twitter's Black employees and allies.

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Twitter expands downvote replies experiment worldwide

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Twitter wants more users to try out its new downvote replies feature by rolling it out globally. The company is testing it out with more users on the web, with plans to bring it to mobile soon. Unlike downvoting on sites like Reddit, the tallies aren't made public. Instead, Twitter uses it to tweak what replies to show users.

According to the company, the experiment so far resulted in users downvoting replies that they found offensive or irrelevant. "This experiment also revealed that downvoting is the most frequently used way for people to flag content they don't want to see," said Twitter. It could be seen as a replacement for muting or flagging a conversation as spam or irrelevant, which you have to dig through dropdown menus to access.

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You can watch this Jennifer Lopez Snapchat digital concert as your Bitmoji

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Snapchat's parent company Snap is diving into the virtual concert space with Jennifer Lopez and Colombian pop singer Maluma. The concert won't take place within the Snapchat app. Instead, you'll sign into a dedicated website to watch using your Snapchat login and then have your Bitmoji avatar appear as a spectator in the crowd. It actually got pushed back to today at 5 PM PT due to "overwhelming demand," so you can set an alarm for it.

A handful of interactive effects will be available during the show, including the ability to start "the wave" and trigger a virtual laser effect. Lopez and Maluma will appear as 3D avatars, too. The 10-minute concert promotes the upcoming romantic comedy Marry Me starring Lopex and Maluma. It isn't clear if this will be a regular event for Snap, but we won't be surprised if they do more if this becomes successful.

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The Benefits of Mobile Gaming

There are constant advancements that are always being made within the realm of technology, and a large majority of these can be found in that of mobile gaming. This is steadily becoming a more and more popular means for gamers everywhere as the quality of games increases, and as such, people all over the world are putting down their consoles and picking up their phones. So, what are the actual benefits that come with mobile gaming? This article will discuss some of them in more detail.  

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