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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023

🌟 New

We’re running a new experiment that changes the header on posts to reduce the redundancy of avatars in reblogs, save some vertical space by moving recommendation labels around, afford more room for badges, and more! On desktop web, it also removes the floating avatars and makes posts full width with the sidebars. If you have feedback about this change, please send it in to Support using the “Feedback” category.

We’ve removed the blog carousel at the top of the Blog Subs dashboard tab (for those who have it enabled), as it was causing the load time to worsen dramatically. (You can enable this tab in your Tumblr Labs settings, or via the new experimental dashboard tab configuration button if you have it.)

🛠 Fixed

Fixed an issue in recommended and related tag card carousels that would show a “Follow” button when you’re already following that tag.

We were having some issues with SoundCloud embeds not working in posts, but it’s cleared up now.

In mobile phone browsers, the “Source” and “Submitted by” text at the bottom of posts is now correctly aligned on the left (it was a few pixels off).

Also in mobile phone browsers, we’ve cleaned up a visual glitch on trending tag pages that was causing the “Trending now” label to be on the same line as the tag itself.

🚧 Ongoing

Nothing to report here today.

🌱 Upcoming

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[alliddewrites]

Schlatt x ContentCreator!Reader

Content disclaimer:

Fluff,

SDMP,

Gender neutral reader

The power of the schlanket compelled me to finish this.

Masterlist

“Chat… This is taking so long…” you sigh, pausing in your building to look at chat.

Ever since you’ve been accepted into the Sleep Deprived SMP, your viewership has been steadily increasing. You had a smaller, but dedicated following before, which you were already very grateful for, but this push really helped you go full time with streaming.

Everyone has been very kind to you, both in your streams and on the server. The other content creators were helpful and included you in a lot of bits to help you assimilate.

You get along with the other creators pretty well, but there is one particular person you favored…

“What if I asked Schlatt for a favor…?” you lean back in your chair, taking your hands off your keyboard and mouse, character now still.

Chat immediately split into two sides, people spamming variations of ‘NO’ and ‘YES’ at the same time, with a clear majority of agreeing answers. There are people defending your honor, telling you to not sink to his level and ones that just wanted to see their favorite duo interact.

“You’re really enabling me here, chat… He’s still on, right?” pressing tab, you see his name on the server list, getting your question answered. “Yeah, he is.”

“I’m going to call him.” you sit back up straight, pause the game and open Discord on your other screen, next to chat. Clicking on yours and Schlatt’s DMs, remnants of a previous, spontaneous conversation pop up.

After a few seconds of hesitation– “Fuck it.” –you click on the call icon. Covering your mouth with your hand, elbow on the table, you stare at the screen while holding back a grin.

After a few rings, he joins.

“Yeah?” he asks straight away.

“Big man! I have a… uh.. favor to ask of you. If you would be ever so generous.” you say a bit nervously after uncovering your mouth, grin ever present. “It’s a pretty big ask.”

“So you came directly to the man at the top, huh?” he counters, the teasing tone clear in his voice.

“I had to make sure my request was accommodated properly, by the one and only.” you say, trying to appeal to his ego, while also not wanting to seem too excited.

“And what would that be, toots?”

“Well… I really, and I mean really, want to build a magnificent base for myself, and I already have everything planned out, but there's just one issue-” began your over the top, formal explanation, “-I am lacking quite a few blocks for this endeavor.”

He lets out a light and humorous scoff as you continue on, “So I thought I'd ask you to grant me creative mode, so I could contribute to this beautiful server, with my beautiful build.”

He gives a big, over exaggerated sigh before he starts speaking. “I could do that, as the person who owns the server, but…”

You squint as when you hear him drag out that last word. “But what?”

“But, I would need some sort of payment. I can't just go giving out such things to anyone for free. Then everyone would be asking me for similar things.” he finishes up. Now it's your turn to scoff at him.

“You say that like chaos doesn't constantly happen on this server anyway.” you roll your eyes at the camera, shaking your head for chat playfully.

“Okay, well, this discussion is over.” he snapped back with a serious tone.

“Wait! No no no no!! Please–!” you quickly ramble, laughing between the words, “--tell me what you want.”

What you didn't expect, is for his reply to come at you with lighting speed and directly hit you in the face with its outrageousness.

“Maid dress stream.”

Your face heats up as you stare at the image of the call in shock for a few seconds, weighing your options.

Does he want this to humiliate you?

Get a rise out of chat?

He already achieved that, only with that response.

Stir some light trouble for attention?

…

Or maybe he wants it for himself…

‘Nah, no way…’ you shut down that thought immediately, looking off to the side, only a portion of your face visible on stream now.

“...Sure...” came your quiet response after a few long seconds, face burning up even more.

The moment you finish saying it, you see something pop up in the Minecraft chat.

Schlatt gave you creative mode, just like that.

You stare dumbfounded as he begins speaking again. “I'll pick one out and mail it to you. See ya, toots.”

All you hear is the sound of him leaving the call as you lower your head and put your face in your hands.

“I guess we got what we wanted, chat.” you mumble out after a minute of silence, not even sure the microphone picked it up.

Your shared ship name became trending on X that night.

It stayed that way for a few days.

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[kisssdmoon]

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[mariacallous]

This week, the Kremlin sought to dominate public information spaces with narratives about Russia’s attack with a nuclear-capable ballistic missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The incident was splashed across the front pages of Russian news outlets and served as the centrepiece of state-controlled TV discussions. The objective is clear: domestically, to enforce a patriotic siege mentality; internationally, to stoke fears of nuclear war, to intimidate, and to weaken support for Ukraine.

Fraudsters fighting fakes

Instead of giving this fear-mongering more oxygen, we focus on something topical, though no less revealing. Enter the Kremlin-funded ‘Global Fact-Checking Network’, a supposedly international initiative to combat bias and disinformation. Under different circumstances, the irony of this endeavour might even be laughable. But it’s dead serious – another weaponised tool to enable and amplify international manipulation.

The network was unveiled at the Kremlin-organised ‘Dialogue on Fakes 2.0(opens in a new tab)’ forum in Moscow last week, hosted by the Russian government-funded NGO ANO Dialog. According to its director(opens in a new tab), Vladimir Tabak, the initiative aims to establish standards for fact-checking, inviting journalists and organisations to join after signing a so-called ‘Code of Responsible Fact-Checking(opens in a new tab)’. The network claims it will develop tools to identify fake news, train professionals, and compile a public database of ‘proven false data’, accessible globally.

Fact-checking as camouflage

Training experts, setting standards, and creating tools to combat disinformation are goals EUvsDisinfo fully supports. But there’s a catch: ANO Dialog(opens in a new tab) and its subsidiary Dialog Regions are Kremlin-funded entities designed to manipulate information domestically and globally to serve Kremlin interests. Its director, Vladimir Tabak(opens in a new tab), is under EU sanctions and in 2024, the US Treasury(opens in a new tab) linked the organisation to Russia’s foreign influence operations, including AI-driven election interference and the Doppelgänger disinformation campaign.

In other words, ANO Dialog and Vladimir Tabak are themselves producing and spreading disinformation and running information manipulation operations for the Kremlin. Announcing a ‘global fact-checking network’ is just the latest iteration of a years-long campaign to copy the verbal and visual vocabulary of actual fact-checking organisations to spread lies.

Lapsha Media and WarOnFakes

In 2021, ANO Dialog signed a ‘Memorandum on Countering Fakes(opens in a new tab)’, which had been set up by major Russian internet companies. It then started the ‘Lapsha Media project(opens in a new tab)’, a website and social media campaign with all the trappings of a fact-checking organisation: slick promotion videos telling users to not believe everything they see online, a weekly newsletter with ‘top fakes’ and information for readers to send in their own ‘fakes’ to be checked by ‘experts’.

Lapsha media is available in Russian and targets Russian-speaking audiences, but Timofej Vasiljev(opens in a new tab), who worked for ANO Dialog in the past, set up the WarOnFakes project, a propaganda project posing as a fact-checking organisation which was available in multiple language (although it failed to gain much following among European audiences).

Deception wrapped in data

ANO Dialog disguises itself as a modern, technologically advanced NGO, whose main goal is to offer advice on communications and digitalisation to Russian state institutions. Commenting on the dangers of online disinformation and fake news fits this role. Its director Tabak is regularly quoted and invited to panels(opens in a new tab) by Russian state media to talk about the dangers to society of ‘fake news’ and ‘deep fakes’ and how he and his organisation aim to fight it.

Some results of this fight were presented in a special ‘Fake News Dissemination Study(opens in a new tab)’ for the above-mentioned conference. What exposes this document as a manipulative fake is its ostensible exactness. The organisation claims to have ‘revealed’ 4,051 fakes in 2023, which were allegedly seen by 12 million persons. In 2024, they claim to have identified more than 4,000 fakes, but thanks to their ‘anti-fake system’ these were so far seen by only 8 million persons. The report even includes a chart which shows which months had the highest number of fakes in the last years and a heatmap to show the total number of identified fakes in each Russian region.

No math in disinformation

By providing these numbers, ANO Dialog tries to make it appear as if it had an understanding of the total amount of fake news or disinformation in Russia. Yet there is no method to reliably measure the amount of disinformation anywhere. Disinformation is not potatoes. It is an abstract concept enabled by manipulative behaviour which comes in many different forms and happens on many different mediums and channels.

The report implies that what it counted was ‘fake’ or inaccurate information. But disinformation doesn’t always work with lies; it often works with half-truths, or even completely accurate information that is taken out of context or presented in a manipulative way, exaggerated, coupled with non-related events, and so on. How would that be counted? As half a fake? As a third of a fake? And who decides how much of a fake that is?

We at EUvsDisinfo have worked professionally since 2015 in countering disinformation and manipulation following a comprehensive concept, which we described in April 2020 and elaborated in July 2023.

EUvsDisinfo also maintains a database, which last week reached the sad milestone of 18,000 examples of disinformation cases. These are merely an illustration of disinformation narratives directed at the EU and its neighbours. We do not claim to be able to quantify the vast amounts of manipulative content being produced every day.

Confusion is the main goal

ANO Dialog is of course not really concerned with these questions because it is itself a major producer of manipulative content. This report is just one more attempt to make it appear that there is a Russian alternative to fact-checking organisations. It works in much the same way that Russian officials often claim that there is no free-speech in Western countries. Their argument is pure whataboutism: ‘If you say we don’t have free speech, we say you don’t have free speech. And then you will not have less free speech and we will not have more free speech’. In reality, the people listening will be a little more confused about free speech and that’s the goal.

It is about taking up space in the information environment and drowning out other voices.

Don’t be deceived!

Other things the Kremlin called fake this week:

– The West did not organise the DHL cargo plane crash in Vilnius to blame Russia

The Kremlin’s disinformation machine churned out an absurd conspiracy theory this week, claiming that the West orchestrated the crash of a DHL cargo plane in Vilnius in order to frame Russia. The theory, promoted by a Russian State Duma member, hinges on a tenuous connection to a Times article that highlighted concerns about parcel bombs and their potential use by Russian intelligence. The crash, which occurred on 25 November, involved a Boeing 737. Lithuanian authorities and DHL are investigating the cause(opens in a new tab), with initial assessments pointing to either technical issues or human error.

The case is an illustrative example of information manipulation by pro-Kremlin media. They did not wait for the results of the investigation but put out their own version of an anti-Russian conspiracy by ‘Anglo-Saxons’ almost immediately. This story was spread by the main TV station Rossiya 1 and the main Russian newswire RIA. In this way, they attempt to dominate the information environment and have search engines pick up their version of events first. It is instructive that these main outlets spread this story so soon: this allows other outlets in the pro-Russian infosphere to republish and amplify it. We have written before about how members of the presidential administration control the main Russian information environment through the use of temnik guidelines.

– North Korean soldiers are fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov called news that North Korean soldiers are being deployed against Ukraine ‘another batch of fake news’. In fact, there is evidence from US, South Korean and Ukrainian sources that the North Korean regime has sent more than 10,000 troops to join the war against Ukraine. This has also been confirmed by HRVP Josep Borrell(opens in a new tab) and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte(opens in a new tab). Peskov’s reasoning for why this could not be true was interesting: because it was not reported by Russian milbloggers. An official of the country that ranks 162 out of 180(opens in a new tab) in the press freedom ranking by Reporters Without Borders apparently still relies on the credibility of independent sources for validation – ironic, given the Kremlin’s routine suppression of free speech and independent media.

– Russia receives weapons from other countries

Another example of the Kremlin’s attempt to obscure uncomfortable truths came this week when Dmitry Medvedev, Vice Chairman of Russia’s Security Council, denied that Russia receives military equipment from other countries. Medvedev claimed that the ‘absolute majority’ of weapons, missiles, and ammunition used in the war against Ukraine is manufactured in Russia. However, substantial evidence contradicts this assertion. By November 2024, South Korean intelligence reported that North Korea had sent over 9 million artillery shells(opens in a new tab), missiles(opens in a new tab), and other weapons to Russia in more than 13,000 containers(opens in a new tab) since August 2023. Iran provides Russia with drones(opens in a new tab) and China is providing critical components(opens in a new tab) to sustain Russia’s military industry. This heavy reliance on external supplies exposes significant gaps in Russia’s own production capabilities. We said we would not mention the ballistic missiles in this review, but here we are after all.

[transgamerthoughts]

a night at poe's masquerade

Last night I made a quick tweet about how I think Persona games (particular from Persona 3 onwards) tend to be fundamentally conservative games. In worlds filled with magic powers, shadow selves, and literal gods there's an understanding that many of the most villainous people you can know are folks in positions of social/political power who weaponize their status in order to prey on those beneath them. This is a particular focus of Persona 5 but it extends even back to back to a game like Persona 2 and characters like Tatsuzou Sudou. Although these games acknowledge the social structures that lead to particularly vicious kinds of abuse, there is tendency for our protagonist to then fold themselves into those power structures. In games that focus less on real-life political allegory, there's still pattern of protagonists eventually accepting the societal roles that they're initial chafing against. It's a very common occurrence in the series. clockwork!

Persona 4 is the chief culprit here. Yukiko struggles with the idea that her presumed inheritance of the Amagi Inn is an imposition on her life but makes peace with that fact and eventually prepares herself for that role. Chie confronts Adachi, shocked that anyone who chose to be a police officer would do so for selfish reasons or betray the ideal image she holds of that job. Though confronted with the ways in which the system enabled Adachi's murders, she ultimately decided that she wants to become a police officer. Just as some examples. there's more. it's a fraught game in many ways

(I'm not gonna talk about Naoto. That's a minefield. as a trans critic people ask what I think about Naoto quite often. my answer is I like Naoto quite a bit and while I appreciate the queer read I don't need her story to be actually about transness. my tongue in cheek deep position here is that I think she's the damn coolest thing in the Dancing All Night opening movie. absolute fire!)

Persona fans are totally reasonable human beings. by which I mean that they might be the most electric and fuckin' absurd fandom I've ever encountered. While some people agreed with my read of the series, many others swarmed in. Which is fine enough. That's just what happens when you're visible on Twitter. I don't really have an interest in outlining the series in gross detail although, contrary to many accusations, I have played all the mainline games. One thing that can never be hurled my way is a suggestion that I don't play videos games. This criticism doesn't arise out of nowhere though I admit I didn't exactly expect it to become a trending topic floating in the "For You" tab. I was tweeting before bed.

Lesson learned! this fandom is wild! So it goes!

I've been thinking about people's responses and I want to venture into fraught territory to talk about a particularly bad habit I see from many fans. Which I think can be extended to things like ongoing debates about localization as much as they can apply to this little tempest in a teapot. Which is that I've grown somewhat concerned with he ways in which RPG fans (intentionally or not) exoticize Japan as a means to defend their favorite games from critique. It's kinda bad!

and I'm gonna risk a ramble exploring the topic… and I wonder how tumblr in 2024 will compare in reaction to hellscape of twitter

Something you often encounter in these discussions is an implication (sometimes a direct suggestion) that it is impossible to really engage with Japanese media as a westerner. That there's too many layers of nuance and too many centuries of ingrained tradition for anyone who has not engaged in lengthy study on the topic to penetrate. Often, this is framed as a desire to simply put things in cultural contexts. respect it and give due seriousness! Which is fine. I absolutely think if you wanna talk about something like the portrayal of the Japanese justice system in Judgement, it probably helps to… y'know… know details about the Japanese justice system. If you want to talk about how a game approaches gender, an understanding of certain social mores is important. No one debates this; it's important to understand art as arising from specific material conditions and places.

This is not really the approach people take however. Instead there is an insistence that the cultural difference between Japan and western nations is essentially insurmountable. Which has some bad implications. I think people are well meaning when they're like "hey, you gotta watch this YouTuber talk about Shintoism and JRPG boss fights for over an hour" but it comes at the cost of painting the culture as something of a puzzle to solve. and make no mistake: I'm glad anyone is doing the work but there's a bit of strangeness at play when folks are like "well you're American" and then tell me to watch criticism also made by Americans. especially since I do have a educational background that includes the study of world religions. i've studied plenty of this! and it's not impossible for me to have grasped.

the world is beautiful and nuanced and specific and full of vibrancies. but these things are not so singular that we can't connect with them or come to know them. and those nuances and specifics and vibrances don't create a protective ward around works. if anything, they're invitations to explore something new. if I walk away from Persona with a position that you don't agree with I promise that it's not something that's happened in haste. It used to be my job to think about games. and I've thought about Persona a lot! it's not inaccesible.

When we start to paint a culture as being particularly foreign we inherently exoticize it. We drape a degree of mystery over it which implies there is no universal connections found in art. Of course the concept of "police" is different in Japan to some extent as is the expectations that go into inheriting a family business. yes, the social nuances of a classroom differ. But Japan is not so alien to the western critic that we can't look at popular fiction and spot patterns. I certain don't need a 17 anime consumer to write me an essay on honne and tatemae or whatever in order to understand what's going on in the Midnight Channel. It's an easily observable truth that Persona often identifies issues within Japan society while also (particularly in Persona 5's case) concluding that these problems are not a consequence of specific power structures but rather moral failings of certain bad individuals. That's the text. Even when it wants to suggest otherwise.

Here's a little snippet from Persona 5. On face value, it seems to contradict what I'm saying. "Harper, how can you say that it only cares about individuals when it outright says that society itself needs to be addressed!?" DO YOU EVEN PLAY THESE GAMES YOU BITCH?! The answer is that the game does not have a model or idea of what it means to change society except vaguely to inspire people to more individual action. be nicer. stand up for yourself, speak your truth, do things for your own reasons. which has a radical element to it in the context to be sure but we've spent a huge portion of the game seeing how the abuse of power, particularly power placed in certain positions and social strata

a change of mindset is good but… is that sufficient? I'm not entirely convinced. not if this game want to truly deliver on everything it has explored. (side note, a lot of folks were like "why are you focusing on p5 so much here?" and the answer is that it's recent, representative of the series' values from the last decade or so, and because I'm a tired adult in their 30s who has stuff to do and isn't obligated to make a 300 tweet long thread breaking down multiple scripts. if you want me to do that labor, you better pay me for my time. otherwise I don't care to appease fan who have no plans of truly entertaining what I'd do anyway. no breakdown I do could please them)

but you fight Yaldabaoth Harper! You kill the collective gestalt representative of the status quo!. okay sure but the metaphorical battle falters as the game ultimately imagines many of our heroes (for instance Makoto, who also decides to become a cop even after her sister leaves the profession to become a defense attorney) are content to slide into the power structures as they exist. they've simply become "good apples" in the same basket that held the bad ones What does it matter if you kill the metaphor when you don't carry through elsewhere? It's not simply some vague human desire to be exploited that created the various monstrous villains we face throughout the game. There's real material circumstances, systems and long-held powers that gave them the carte blanche that enabled their abuses! Be they financial, political, or even sexual.

We might layer nuances on top of this of course. Notions of reticence to change or valuing of tradition, attitudes towards elders. But when we do so it's important be careful. When fans imply impenetrabilities in the works by virtue of cultural difference, there's a risk of veering into a kind of Orientalism. One which mystifies the culture and turns it into a kind of "other." Distant, strange. This sometimes comes paired with a kind of infantilization of creators but that's a different though similarly fraught topic that I think is particularly best left in the hands of the creators themselves. I'm not the person to talk about that!

Nevertheless, a frustrating part of the response to my tweet today has been a rush to say "This work functions that makes it necessarily elide your ability to critique it."

I'll be an ass and generalize. It's mostly people with Persona avatars making this suggest. That Persona, as a Japanese work, is imbued with an ineffable quality that magically allows it to side-step what's ultimately a pretty timid conclusion. Many of these folks are younger players, self-identified as such in profiles, who clearly have a deep connection to the series. It means something to them. But I'd rather they simply say "hey, I found this thing particularly moving at an important moment in my life" rather than conjure an impassable ocean between myself (or really anyone) and the work in the event they find flaws.

Otherwise, you just get this:

Stories are not merely about what happens on the journey. The destination does matter. It means something when the king grabs his shining sword and fights off the orc invaders or whatever. A value system is suggested Similarly, it does means something when Chie becomes a cop. (This is just a shorthand example mind you! But you hopefully get the idea!)

I don't think games or any work of art need us to defend them. The trap of fandom is that you often turn to any possible means to justify what you love. For Persona, a series which does have the decency to explore cultural issues, that same cultural specificity is often weaponize by fans (largely western fans even!) to deflect certain problems. This process inadvertently portrays that culture as a mystery, a shrouded thing that we cannot ever criticize. It's one thing to dig into some of those contextual specifics but it's another all-together to imply these specifics provide a mean to abrogate certain analyses. and I think navigating the line between due deference and something deeper and stranger seems to be something many of the fans reacting to me... have not managed. I had a peer talk to me about this situation and their feeling was that the animated members of the fandom that were coming at me, many of whom are self-identified as young and western, were kinda treating Japan like it was a land of elves. which it's not! it is a place on Earth and yes we need to take strides to understand and respect certain specificities... but we can't mystify an entire people. especially if the purpose is to turn those people and their culture into a shield. a means to justify and validate the specialness you see in a franchise.

I call Persona conservative because it cannot imagine a world in any other shape that what we have right now. God dies but nothing actually changes. I don't think it's enough to say "well, they defeated the god! and they needed the collective strength of society to do it! people did change because without that change of heart, the heroes wouldn't have the magical juice to fight the Kabbalah monster!" to toss Makoto's words back at the series: victory against a single god is meaningless if the true enemy is society.

If you can't show me what that grand spiritual change means for society, then I think you've kinda failed. you've certainly failed if the conclusion is that the world after that change is functionally the same and it doesn't really matter to me if "they talk about this in Strikers or whatever" because you can't offload your thematic snarls to side games. if the main stories you tell can't resolve this tension, that's a problem. these are often very beautiful games. they certainly have amazing structure and systems. but I don't think it's controversial to say they often hedge their bets at the end. and there's no impenetrable cultural wall surrounding the games that leaves the criticism off the table.

that's just What Happens. and it's fine for us to acknowledge flaws in even in things that contain beauty or meant something to us

really. it's fine.

[horsegamergirl]

Producer Confessions: Wardrobe Update

By Jane Skullman - Executive Producer:

The Wardrobe Journey

The First Step

Our first exciting update to share is all about your Wardrobe! Back in February, we took a huge leap by releasing a new code foundation for how items are stored in your backpack and wardrobe. This was the first of many planned improvements, leading us to today's update.

Today

Today, we rolled out the second release, which focuses on providing you with more space! As a bonus, we added a new preview window to the wardrobe so you can plan your outfits better, enabled searches for items, and updated the visual look of the UI.

You might wonder, why did it take so much time to add a little bit of more space into your wardrobe? While it might seem simple to just add another tab in the existing solution, there were a few key steps we wanted to get just right:

Start to adapt the solution for all our platforms (desktop and mobile).

Improve the user interface (UI) code and data setup for easier future improvements.

Update the functionality to align with other areas of the game, including the preview feature and the visual elements of the UI.

Future

By taking these steps, we've set the stage for a much-improved and cohesive wardrobe experience across all devices

➡️ This is by no means the last step, so we will start by collecting feedback and discussing the next most important step to take. We think it will include improvements around these areas: 

Update to use desktop icons on your mobile; colors included.

Remove the hair and makeup cap where some players can’t access any of the new stuff we’ve released. 

Improving how backpack and chat integrates while the wardrobe is open. 

And of course, we'll be responding to the feedback we gather from the survey.

Survey

We will soon post a survey in the launcher to get your input on what’s most important to tackle next. Your voice matters, and we can’t wait to hear from you!

[willazwq]

Guide to Boosting Your Cash App Bitcoin Withdrawal Limit

Cash App is a popular choice for buying, selling, and managing Bitcoin due to its user-friendly interface and integrated features. However, many users find themselves constrained by the default withdrawal limits on Bitcoin transactions. If you're looking to increase Cash App Bitcoin withdrawal limit, follow these five simple steps to enhance your trading capabilities.

1. Verify Your Identity

Verifying your identity is a critical step in increasing your Cash App Bitcoin withdrawal limit. This process ensures that your account is secure and compliant with financial regulations.

Step 1: Open the Cash App on your mobile device and tap on the profile icon or the account icon located in the top-right corner of the screen.

Step 2: From the profile menu, navigate to "Personal" and select "Verify Identity."

Step 3: You'll be prompted to upload a photo of your government-issued ID. Ensure the photo is clear and all details are legible.

Step 4: Take a selfie as directed to match the ID photo. This step helps Cash App confirm that you are the person in the ID photo.

Step 5: Submit the required documents and wait for the Cash App to review and approve your verification request. The verification process may take a few hours to a few days. Once completed, your account will be eligible for higher withdrawal limits.

2. Link a Bank Account

Linking a bank account to your Cash App account not only facilitates easier transactions but also enhances your Cash App withdrawal limit.

Step 1: On the Cash App home screen, tap on the "Banking" tab, represented by a bank icon or the "$" symbol.

Step 2: Select "Linked Accounts" or "Add a Bank Account" from the options available.

Step 3: Follow the on-screen instructions to link your bank account. Please provide your bank details and log in to your bank account for verification.

Step 4: Confirm the linking process. This step allows Cash App to securely connect your bank account with your Cash App account, which can positively impact your Bitcoin withdrawal limits.

3. Enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)

Two-factor authentication (2FA) adds an extra layer of security to your Cash App account, which is essential for handling higher withdrawal limits.

Step 1: Go to the Cash App home screen and tap on your profile icon.

Step 2: Select "Privacy & Security" from the menu.

Step 3: Tap on "Two-Factor Authentication" and choose your preferred method for receiving authentication codes (e.g., SMS or an authenticator app).

Step 4: Follow the prompts to enable 2FA. You'll need to enter a code sent to your phone or generated by the authenticator app.

Step 5: Once 2FA is activated, Cash App will use this additional security measure to protect your account, which can help in raising your Bitcoin withdrawal limits.

4. Upgrade Your Account to Cash App Pro

Cash App offers different account tiers, and upgrading to Cash App Pro can increase Cash App Bitcoin limit:

Step 1: Tap on the profile icon or account icon in the top-right corner of the Cash App home screen.

Step 2: Select "Settings" and then "Upgrade to Pro" or "Account Upgrade."

Step 3: Follow the instructions to complete the upgrade process. This may involve additional verification steps or providing more detailed personal information.

Step 4: Once upgraded, you'll benefit from higher limits on Bitcoin withdrawals and other enhanced features available to Pro users.

5. Contact Cash App Support

If you've completed the above steps and still face limitations, contacting Cash App support can provide personalised assistance and potentially increase your Bitcoin withdrawal limit.

Step 1: Open the Cash App and tap on the profile icon.

Step 2: Navigate to "Support" and select "Something Else."

Step 3: Choose the option related to Bitcoin limits or transactions.

Step 4: Follow the instructions to contact support. You can send a message or request a call to discuss your needs.

Step 5: Provide any required information and explain your request to increase your Bitcoin withdrawal limit. The support team will review your case and may adjust your limits based on your account history and verification status.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q1: What is the Cash App Bitcoin withdrawal limit? 

A1: The default Cash App Bitcoin withdrawal limit is typically set at $2,000 per week. However, this limit can vary based on your account status and verification level.

Q2: How can I increase my Cash App Bitcoin withdrawal limit? 

A2: To increase your Bitcoin withdrawal limit, verify your identity, link a bank account, enable Two-Factor Authentication, upgrade to Cash App Pro, or contact Cash App support for assistance.

Q3: What is the Cash App Bitcoin daily withdrawal limit? 

A3: The daily withdrawal limit for Bitcoin on Cash App can be up to $2000, but it may vary depending on your account verification level and other factors.

Q4: Are there limits on Cash App Bitcoin purchases? 

A4: Yes, Cash App imposes limits on Bitcoin purchases as well. The daily purchase limit is generally set at $10,000, with a weekly limit of $50,000.

Q5: How can I check my current Cash App Bitcoin limits? 

A5: You can check your Bitcoin limits by navigating to the Bitcoin section within the Cash App and reviewing your account settings. For specific details, you may also contact Cash App support.

By following these steps, you can increase your Cash App Bitcoin withdrawal limits and enjoy greater flexibility in managing your cryptocurrency transactions.

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What Bank is Cash App and How Does It Work: Cash App Direct Deposit Bank

If you are doubtful about the Cash App bank name, you have landed at the right place. Here we are going to discuss the Cash App bank name and how it works. Does Cash App work with one or two banks? Well, you are going to get all the answers related to the Cash App bank. Like other financial apps, Cash App has tied up with banks to manage its direct deposits and Cash App cards. Further, Cash App is a bank alternative for those who are not having traditional bank accounts. It provides banking services and debit cards (Called Cash Card) through its bank partners. So, without any further ado, let’s know ‘what bank is Cash App and how does it work?’ and, how to find the bank name. 

What bank is Cash App?

Firstly, you should know that Cash App is not a bank, it is a bank alternative for those who are not having traditional bank accounts. Cash App is a safe and secured financial services platform with millions of active users in the US and UK as it is only available in these two places at this time. As mentioned earlier, it is not a bank account, it is a financial app that offers banking services and issues debit cards through its bank partners. So, it is an app that works in association with two different banks. It works with Sutton Bank and Lincoln Savings Bank to manage its financial services. 

However, a single Cash App user can’t have two banks, here you can find out exactly which one it is in your case. 

How to find what bank is Cash App?

It is quite easy to find the name of your Cash App bank. To do so you should open the Cash App on your mobile device. Then tap the routing number and account number. You can see them below your balance in the banking tab (“$”). 

How does Sutton bank manage Cash App?

You can find the bank name by using routing number and account number. You can find the bank name by googling the routing number and account number that you can locate below the balance tab ($). Once you are clear about your Cash App bank, it is easy to know its working. Suton bank is the main bank of Cash App that issues Cash Cards to Cash App users and manages its Cash Cards functions and transactions. Sutton bank works as a trading partner of the Cash App and handles all the tasks associated with the Cash App debit cards. 

Does Sutton bank manage Cash App direct deposit?

As mentioned above, Cash App works with two banks- Sutton bank and Lincoln Savings Bank. Here the Sutton Bank issues and manages card-related activities on the other hand, Lincoln Savings Bank regulates Cash App online financial transactions and direct deposits. 

Except for issuing a Cash App card, it has no relation with Cash App. 

When a Cash App user applies for Cash Card, Cash App forwards the application to Sutton. Then Sutton bank representatives go through the application, check out all the formalities and verify the document sent for Cash Card. If everything is ok with your documents, they issue a Cash Card which gets delivered to you within 8-10 days. 

Can you log in from the Cash App into Sutton Bank?

No, you can’t login into Sutton bank with your Cash App as Sutton bank doesn’t support Cash App. Sutton Bank issues Cash App Cards to the users of Cash App and no other association. 

Can I find the address of Sutton bank Cash App for direct deposit?

There is no address for Sutton Bank Cash App direct deposit as Sutton Bank does not deal with Cash App users in a direct way. Sutton Bank is only responsible for issuing Cash App Cards and handles Cash Card related services. 

Is Cash App a Sutton Bank?

No, Cash App is not a Sutton Bank but it is a financial platform that works with two banks - Sutton Bank (issues Cash Card) and Lincoln Savings Bank ( for making direct deposit). 

How to enable direct deposit on Cash App

With Cash App direct deposit, you not only paychecks but also make other payments including your tax returns. If you want to enable direct deposit, you have to first locate your routing and account number on the Cash App. 

After enabling direct deposit, you succeed in increasing the direct deposit limit and you’re able to receive up to $25,000 per direct deposit and up to $50,000 in a day. 

If you succeed in enabling direct deposits, these are available in your account even up to two days earlier than most banks. However, it might take some extra time if you are making the direct deposit for the first time. 

Cash App works with two banks and each bank has its specific roles and duties to perform. For instance, we have discussed above the role of Sutton Bank. However, you are not very familiar with Lincoln Savings accounts. Lincoln Savings Bank manages Cash App direct deposits. 

How to find the bank address with routing number

It is quite easy to find the bank address with the routing number. You can use the US Routing number checker to validate and find bank addresses based on its database. With Routing number checker, you find Bank name and its address including (city, state, and ZIP) and phone number. So, you can find your Cash App bank name and address with the routing number available under the balance tab in the Cash App. 

Do you need a Cash App bank to pay bills with Cash App?

While you pay bills you need to use your account and routing number. If you are proceeding to pay bills using your account and routing number, follow these steps:

Go to the home screen of the app and tap the “Banking tab”.

Now, select the “Deposits &Transfers”.

Then, copy the account details. 

Paste the detail while setting up bill pay when prompted for a bank account. 

Finally, we believe the above information is helpful for you. Cash App is not a proper bank but is a financial platform and a bank alternative for those who are not having a traditional bank account. Cash App works with two banks as mentioned above- Sutton bank and Lincoln Bank.

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Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

🌟 New

We now display unseen posts from communities that you’re a member of in the Following feed for everyone who has “Best Stuff First” enabled in their Dashboard settings.

We added a new option to the meatballs menu of recommended posts: “Not interested in this blog” or “Not interested in this community” (depending on the post’s origin), which will allow you to dismiss both the post and all other posts from the same blog or community.

Community members can now report posts and comments to their community admins and moderators from the meatballs menu. These reports will land in a new moderation queue, which admins and moderators can review.

Images in asks from blogs you don’t follow are now blurred in your Activity feed.

🛠 Fixed

The Dashboard once-again respects your pinned tab setting and will no longer drop you in For You if you had pinned Following instead.

When you start typing a mention in a comment on a community post, community members will now be recommended first.

🚧 Ongoing

No ongoing incidents to speak of right now.

🌱 Upcoming

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Top 5 best Ideas to Grow on YouTube

Growing on YouTube is a multifaceted endeavor that demands a strategic approach, consistent effort, and a deep understanding of your target audience. Top five best ideas to help you effectively expand your presence on YouTube. Niche Expertise and Consistent Content

Establishing a niche is the cornerstone of your YouTube growth strategy. Choose a topic you're passionate about and possess expertise in, as this will enable you to offer unique insights and value to your audience, another option be like Buy YouTube monetize Channel and consistently deliver high-quality content within your niche, you position yourself as an authority and attract viewers who share your interests. A well-defined niche allows you to tailor your content to a specific audience, making it more appealing and relevant.

To execute this idea, start by conducting thorough research to identify gaps in your chosen niche. What content is missing? How can you address your audience's needs and questions? Create a content calendar to maintain a consistent upload schedule. Consistency is key to retaining viewers and building anticipation for your next videos. Make sure your videos are well-researched, well-edited, and offer valuable insights to keep your audience engaged. Buy and Sell YouTube Channel is another good option to grown in YouTube community.

Engaging and Click-Worthy Thumbnails

Thumbnails serve as the initial impression of your videos. To stand out among the multitude of content, your thumbnails must be visually striking and compelling. Use high-quality images, vibrant colors, and bold text to convey the essence of your video. However, ensure that your thumbnails accurately represent your content to maintain viewer trust.

Crafting click-worthy thumbnails involves understanding the psychology of curiosity and intrigue. Implement techniques like using close-up shots, expressive faces, and contrasting colors to capture attention. Test different thumbnail styles and analyze the click-through rates to refine your approach. Remember, a captivating thumbnail can significantly increase the likelihood of viewers clicking on your videos, leading to higher engagement and growth.

Compelling Titles and SEO

Titles play a crucial role in attracting viewers to your videos. Craft titles that are not only informative but also compelling. Clearly convey the topic and value of your video while sparking curiosity. A well-crafted title can pique the viewer's interest and encourage them to watch.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital for discoverability. Utilize relevant keywords in your titles, descriptions, and tags to optimize your videos for search engines. Research keywords that align with your content and are commonly searched by your target audience. YouTube's algorithm uses these cues to understand the context of your videos and recommend them to relevant viewers. Effective SEO can lead to increased organic traffic and exposure, contributing to your channel's growth.

Engagement and Community Building

Building a loyal community around your channel is essential for sustained growth. Actively engage with your audience through comments, likes, and shares. Respond to comments to foster a sense of connection and demonstrate your appreciation for viewer feedback. Hosting live Q&A sessions, where you directly interact with your audience, can further strengthen this bond.

Encourage discussions and interactions around your content by posing thought-provoking questions and inviting viewers to share their opinions. Utilize the Community tab to share behind-the-scenes content, polls, and updates. Consider running contests or giveaways to incentivize engagement and attract new subscribers.

Collaborations and Cross-Promotion

Collaborations with other YouTubers can introduce your channel to new audiences and enhance your credibility. Identify creators within your niche who share similar values and target audiences. Collaborative videos allow you to tap into their subscriber base while providing fresh perspectives to your viewers.

Cross-promotion is another effective strategy. Give shout-outs to fellow YouTubers in your videos, and encourage them to do the same for you. Collaborate on projects that showcase both creators' strengths and offer mutual value. Through cross-promotion, you can increase your reach and gain exposure to viewers who might not have discovered your channel otherwise.

Bonus Tip: Analytics and Adaptation

Regularly analyzing your YouTube Analytics is essential for making informed decisions. Monitor metrics such as watch time, click-through rate, and audience demographics to gain insights into your viewers' behavior. Identify trends and patterns to refine your content strategy. Adapt to viewer preferences by experimenting with different formats, styles, and topics based on what resonates most with your audience.

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The 9 Best Brand Monitoring Tools in India to Safeguard Your Digital Reputation (2025 Edition)

In today's online age, consumers are discussing your business on private forums, blogs, social media, review websites, and even in the mainstream media. Every statement matters, whether positive or negative. In such cases, brand monitoring tools are vital. They allow you to maintain your brand's online presence, detect trends, influence conversation, and engage with your target market.  Even if you have a small business with appropriate tools for monitoring your brand, it will help you to adjust and respond better.

What Is Brand Monitoring? Quick Summary

The fundamental goal of brand monitoring is to track online conversations about your business. It helps to understand people's perceptions, whether through a blog entry, review of a site, or comment on a social networking site.  Rather than simply knowing that your name was mentioned, it is more important to know how to build a positive reputation for your brand, track trends, and identify warning signs before problems occur. 

How Monitoring Your Brand Can Assist You in Building and Maintaining a Positive Online Reputation

Today, your brand's reputation can change overnight.  One negative incident or one popular tweet can create a chain of negative comments.  This is why it's so crucial to pay attention to what people are saying about your brand.  By keeping tabs on your brand, you can spot problems before they spiral out of control.

Therefore, keeping an eye on your brand online is essential to growing and protecting your business. Brand monitoring is essential for every business for the following reasons:

React immediately: Show your care about your clients' views.

Look at your competitors: Monitor what your competitors are doing and notice both their successes and failures.

Know your audience: Determine what they like, dislike, and want from your brand.

Use the knowledge you've gained: Apply the knowledge you've gained to enhance your offerings, message, and marketing.

Know problems early: Deal with complaints or negative comments before they become larger issues.

Must-Have Brand Monitoring Tools for Indian Brands in 2025

Locobuzz: Unleash the Power of Brand Monitoring

Locobuzz enables you to track online posts regarding your business.  All, ranging from blog posts to social network updates and customer reviews, can be tracked using one dashboard.  It also allows you to reply faster, track conversations on numerous platforms, and know what is being discussed about your company.  Moreover, since it supports various Indian languages, it is a great choice for those who want to communicate with the locals.  

Feature highlights:

Speeds up responses through automation.

Helps in understanding the emotions of your customers.

Streamlines the whole client experience.

Tracks online comments about your brand.

Informs users of important conversations.

Enables multi-language support.

Pricing:  Customizable pricing as per needs.

Suitable for: Businesses of all sizes looking for an all-in-one customer experience solution.

2. Reputation: An Easy Way to Handle Reviews

Reputation helps businesses with their TripAdvisor, Facebook, and Google reviews. Businesses that need to react fast to client feedback and have numerous physical locations may find it very helpful.

Feature highlights:

Evaluate the reaction and monitoring tools.

Keeping an eye on the customer reviews' tone.

All of your sites are on a single dashboard.

automatic reporting and personalised notifications.Unique features: It's tailored for businesses that rely heavily on customer reviews.  It allows you to stay on top of what the customers are saying the moment they say it through simple, in-the-moment feedback monitoring.

Pricing: Flexible to your own business needs.

Suitable for: Local service businesses, stores, lodging establishments, and healthcare facilities who want to stay ahead of reputation management and the review game.

3. Simplify360: Listen to Every Voice, in Every Language The major target market for Simplify360 is India. Since it offers support for several Indian languages, companies can monitor personalised communications. Features for customer care have also been added to simplify monitoring problems and responding quickly.

Feature highlights:

Regional Indian languages are used to identify monitors.

Artificial intelligence-based sentiment analysis.

Response management and customer service tools.

Monitoring of influencers and marketing.  Unique features: What makes Simplify 360 unique is that it supports Indian languages like Bengali, Tamil, Hindi, among many others. It is different from most of the other solutions in this regard.

Pricing: The pricing is dependent on your business's needs.

Suitable for: Indian businesses looking to make connections with the locals of a particular region, or any business looking for reliable local language support.

Discover the Best Brand Monitoring Tools Here – Click to View the Complete List

FAQ SECTION

1. What is brand monitoring, and why is it so important to brands?

Brand monitoring is the act of monitoring brand mentions on blogs, social media, news, and review sites. It helps firms keep up their reputation, understand people's sentiments, and even address criticism in a timely manner.

2. What is India's number one brand monitoring tool?

One of India's leading brand monitoring tools is Locobuzz, which specializes in brand monitoring and customer experience.

3. How do I choose the most suitable brand monitoring tool for my business?

Begin by considering your business's size, budget, and objectives. If you are looking for the most suitable brand monitoring tool with native language support and customer-centric features, Locobuzz is an excellent option. 

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Unlock the Power of Zoom Live Captioning Services for Enhanced Accessibility

Learn how Zoom Live Captioning Services can improve accessibility and engagement in your virtual meetings. Discover how real-time captions can make your meetings inclusive and more effective.

In today’s digital world, ensuring that your virtual meetings are accessible to everyone is a priority. Zoom Live Captioning Services provide an innovative solution to improve communication and inclusivity during online meetings, making them more engaging and effective for all participants.

What Are Zoom Live Captioning Services?

Zoom Live Captioning Services offer real-time captions during virtual meetings, allowing participants to read the spoken content as it’s happening. This feature is particularly helpful for individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, enabling them to fully engage in discussions. Additionally, live captions aid non-native speakers, making it easier for them to understand the conversation in real-time.

Key Benefits of Zoom Live Captioning Services

Enhanced Accessibility: Zoom Live Captioning Services ensure that all attendees, regardless of hearing abilities, can actively participate in and follow along with the meeting.

Better Understanding: Captions help clarify discussions, especially in noisy environments or when speakers have strong accents, improving overall comprehension.

Increased Participation: With captions available, participants can focus better and remain engaged, leading to more productive meetings.

Global Engagement: Zoom Live Captioning Services support multiple languages, making it easier for global audiences to connect and reducing language barriers.

Legal Compliance: Implementing captions ensures your meetings meet accessibility standards and regulations, demonstrating a commitment to inclusivity.

How to Enable Zoom Live Captioning Services

Enabling Zoom Live Captioning Services is a simple process:

Sign in to your Zoom account and go to the "Settings" section.

Under the "Meeting" tab, locate the "Closed Captioning" setting and enable it.

You can assign someone to manually type captions or use a third-party service to automatically generate captions.

Once enabled, captions will be available for participants to view during the meeting, and they can save them for future reference.

Real-World Applications of Zoom Live Captioning Services

Organizations in various sectors are utilizing Zoom Live Captioning Services to enhance accessibility:

Education: Schools and universities use live captions in virtual classes to ensure all students, including those with hearing impairments, can access learning materials.

Business: Companies leverage live captioning for internal meetings, ensuring that all employees, regardless of location or ability, can participate fully.

Healthcare: Medical professionals use live captions during virtual consultations to communicate effectively with patients who may have hearing difficulties.

Government: Public sector entities use live captioning for town halls and public meetings to ensure all citizens have equal access to information.

Conclusion

Zoom Live Captioning Services are essential for creating an inclusive environment in virtual meetings. They allow everyone to participate fully, enhancing communication and engagement. Whether for business, education, healthcare, or government, live captions improve accessibility, making meetings more effective and efficient.

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Social Media Advertising

One of the most effective techniques available to companies to interact with their target markets now is social media advertising. Highly targeted advertising options available on sites including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter let advertisers customize their messages and campaigns to particular user groups, activities, and interests. These sites not only give companies a wide spectrum of advertising capabilities but also help them to produce observable outcomes including higher brand awareness, website traffic, and conversions.

Facebook Ads: The Power of Precision

Having over 2.8 billion monthly active users, Facebook is among the biggest social networking sites in the world. This large user base presents companies with a great chance to promote to a broad spectrum of possible consumers. Facebook Ads' very thorough targeting choices are one of their main assets. Targeting consumers according on age, gender, region, education level, job title, relationship status, interests, behavior, even purchase patterns, advertisers can Advertisers can also post customer data lists on Facebook, which can be used to create Lookalike Audiences and guarantee that ads are shown to people like to the present consumers of a company.

Image and video advertisements, carousel advertising—which let advertisers highlight various goods or services in one ad—and PowerPoint ads are among the several ad formats Facebook provides. These designs guarantee customers enjoy a seamless and interesting experience since they are best for desktop and mobile devices. Facebook advertisements also interact with Instagram so companies may run advertisements across both sites at once, hence enhancing their reach and impact.

Instagram Ads: Visual and Creative Appeal

Owned by Facebook, Instagram is a visually driven platform with about one billion monthly users. Particularly for companies in sectors including fashion, beauty, travel, and cuisine, the platform's emphasis on high-quality photographs and videos makes it a potent promotional tool. Leveraging the visual attractiveness of the site, Instagram ads can show up in users' feeds, stories, and the Explore tab.

Instagram advertising come in photo and video forms as well as carousel ads and Stories ads. Instagram Stories—which let companies share immersive, full-screen material that vanishes after 24 hours—are among the most interesting forms available. This structure creates urgency and motivates people to act right away—that is, visit a website or make a buy. Like Facebook, Instagram gives advertisers strong targeting choices so they may reach particular groups and interests.

Because Instagram interacts with Facebook's advertising system, advertisers can control their campaigns on both platforms using the same tools. This cross-platform advertising feature improves the efficacy of campaigns since companies may keep a consistent message on Facebook while using Instagram's very active audience.

Twitter Ads: Real-Time Engagement and Trending Topics

With its real-time, fast-paced character, Twitter presents advertisers with a chance to interact with consumers around popular subjects and dialogues. Though its user base is lower than that of Facebook or Instagram, Twitter is a powerful tool for real-time marketing especially in sectors including news, sports, entertainment, and technology. Twitter ads are perfect for increasing interaction with consumers already involved in continuous events or discussions.

Promoted tweets, promoted trends, and promoted accounts are just a few of the numerous kinds of ads Twitter does. While Promoted Trends let companies have their hashtags shown in the section on hot topics, therefore increasing major visibility and interaction, Promoted Tweets let marketers magnify their messaging in users' timelines. Promoted accounts enable companies to expand their following and have more of a presence on the network.

Twitter's capacity to profit on real-time events, hashtags, and viral trends makes it especially appealing to marketers. Advertisers may make sure their material is current and relevant to the audience by designing commercials that fit into dialogues occurring at that moment. By means of keyword targeting, follower targeting, and interest-based targeting, Twitter's targeting choices help companies to approach consumers depending on their preferences and actions.

Conclusion

Social media advertising on sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter gives companies strong means to interact with their consumers and reach their marketing goals. Brands may build customized, relevant, and powerful advertising campaigns by using the targeting tools, creative forms, and real-time interaction choices of these platforms. Whether the objective is to boost brand awareness, drive traffic, or create sales, social media advertising remains a vital tactic for companies trying to thrive in the digital age.

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Agent Mode In GitHub Copilot For Your VS Code Workflow

More context for your tools and services makes GitHub Copilot more agentic, driven by the finest models.

For MSFT's 50th anniversary, Microsoft Azure is releasing Visual Studio Code's agent mode to all users, which now supports MCP and lets you access any context or feature. Microsoft is also thrilled to provide a local, open-source GitHub MCP server that lets you incorporate GitHub features into any MCP-capable LLM product.

To fulfil its promise to offer a range of models, it is adding Anthropic Claude 3.5, 3.7 Sonnet, 3.7 Sonnet Thinking, Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, and OpenAI o3-mini to all paid Copilot levels through premium requests. All base model paying subscriptions feature unlimited agent mode, context-driven chat, and code completion requests. Premium requests add to them. With the new Pro+ tier, developers may use Copilot's latest models.

More to the agent awakening. The Copilot code review agent is also being released via Microsoft Azure. Over 1 million GitHub engineers have used the preview in a month. The next change recommendations are public, so you may tab tab tab your way to coding greatness.

VS Code agent mode

Agent mode will be gradually made accessible to VS Code users in stable in the following weeks to ensure total availability. It may now be manually activated. Agent mode can put your thoughts into code, unlike chat or multi-file modifications, which enable you suggest code changes across several workspace files. Agent mode challenges Copilot to go beyond simple prompts. To ensure your goal is fulfilled, it completes all subtasks across automatically discovered or created files. Agent mode may propose tool calls or terminal instructions. Additionally, it evaluates run-time defects and self-heals.

Since February, VS Code Insiders has allowed developers to tweet contributions, create web apps, and automatically fix code generation bugs in agent mode.

OpenAI GPT-4o, Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, and Claude 3.5 and 3.7 Sonnet power agent mode. Agent mode currently passes SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.7 Sonnet 56.0%. As chain of thought reasoning models improve, agent mode should get stronger.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) public preview is currently available

Developers must research, navigate telemetry, manage infrastructure, code, and debug all day. They use engineering stack tools to achieve this. MCP gives agent mode context and tools to help you, including a USB port for intelligence. When you input a conversation prompt in agent mode in Visual Studio Code, the model can utilise numerous tools to understand database structure or do online searches. More interactive and context-sensitive coding is available with this option.

Agent mode could ask an LLM what to do with the list of MCP tools and the prompt to “Update my GitHub profile to include the title of the PR that was assigned to me yesterday”. The agent would repeatedly call tools until the job was done.

On GitHub, you may already use the enormous and growing MCP ecosystem. This repository is a great community inventory with top MCP servers. The GitHub local MCP server makes agent mode a powerful GitHub platform user by searching code and repositories, resolving problems, and producing PRs.

Configure local and remote MCP servers using Visual Studio Code's agent mode. See the repository to use the GitHub local MCP server, now natively enabled in Visual Studio Code.

Requests for premium models

Since GitHub Universe, Microsoft Azure has included discussion, multi-file editing, and agent mode models. Since these models are generally available, it is creating a new premium request type. Premium requests are included on all basic model paying plans (currently OpenAI GPT-4o) along with unlimited agent mode, context-driven chat, and code completions.

Starting May 5, 2025, Copilot Pro members will receive 300 monthly premium requests. From May 12 to 19, 2025, Copilot Business and Enterprise users will receive 300 and 1000 monthly premium requests. These premium models are uncontrolled till then.

It also offers a $39-per-month Pro+ subscription with top models like GPT-4.5 and 1500 monthly premium requests.

For extra premium request use, Copilot paying members can pay as they go. Individuals and organisations can utilise more requests than the maximum supplied to conveniently track spending. Copilot Admin Billing Settings lets GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise administrators manage requests. Extra premium requests cost $0.04 apiece.

You can use Copilot's base model without restrictions while employing a more powerful or efficient model when needed. Premium models consume a set number of requests.

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How to Withdraw Money from Coinbase Wallet to Bank Account?

Coinbase Wallet is a popular choice for storing cryptocurrencies, but many users wonder how to withdraw funds to their bank accounts. In this guide, we will walk you through the step-by-step process of transferring funds from your Coinbase Wallet to a bank account, including how to cash out USDC and withdrawal limits.

Can You Withdraw from a Coinbase Wallet to a Bank Account?

Yes, you can withdraw from Coinbase Wallet to your bank account, but it requires an extra step. Unlike Coinbase’s exchange, Coinbase Wallet is a self-custody wallet, meaning it does not directly support fiat withdrawals. Instead, you need to first transfer funds from Coinbase Wallet to your Coinbase account, then withdraw them to your linked bank account.

Why Can't I Withdraw Money from Coinbase Wallet?

If you are experiencing issues withdrawing funds from Coinbase Wallet, consider the following reasons:

Funds Are in Coinbase Wallet, Not Coinbase Account – You need to transfer assets to your Coinbase account first.

Asset Is Not Supported for Withdrawal – Some cryptocurrencies must be converted to fiat or a supported token before withdrawal.

Pending Transactions – If transactions are pending, you must wait for confirmation on the blockchain.

Verification Issues – Ensure your identity is verified on Coinbase to enable fiat withdrawals.

Withdrawal Limits – Check if you have reached your withdrawal limits (discussed later in this article).

How Do I Get My Money Back Out of Coinbase Wallet?

To withdraw from Coinbase Wallet to your bank account, follow these steps:

Step 1: Transfer Crypto from Coinbase Wallet to Coinbase Account

Open Coinbase Wallet and navigate to the Send tab.

Select the cryptocurrency you wish to transfer.

Enter your Coinbase account’s wallet address as the recipient.

Confirm the transaction and pay any necessary network fees.

Step 2: Sell Your Crypto for Fiat

Log into your Coinbase account.

Navigate to Trade and select Sell.

Choose the cryptocurrency you transferred and enter the amount to sell.

Confirm the transaction and convert your crypto to fiat (USD, EUR, etc.).

Step 3: Withdraw Fiat to Your Bank Account

Click on Assets and select your fiat balance.

Choose Withdraw and select your linked bank account.

Enter the withdrawal amount and confirm the transaction.

Your funds will be deposited in your bank within 1-5 business days, depending on your bank’s processing time.

How Do I Transfer Money from Coinbase Wallet to Account?

To Transfer Money from Coinbase Wallet to Bank Account: The process is simple:

Open Coinbase Wallet.

Select the crypto you wish to transfer.

Tap Send and enter your Coinbase account’s wallet address.

Confirm and pay the network fee.

The funds will appear in your Coinbase account once confirmed on the blockchain.

How to Cash Out USDC on Coinbase?

USDC is a stablecoin pegged to the USD, making it easy to convert and withdraw. Here’s how to Cash Out USDC on Coinbase

Transfer USDC from Coinbase Wallet to Coinbase Exchange.

Sell USDC for USD by selecting USDC in the Sell tab.

Withdraw USD to your bank account.

The funds will arrive based on the withdrawal method:

Instant withdrawal (with fees) – Available via PayPal or debit card.

Standard bank transfer (1-5 days) – Typically free but slower.

How to Cash Out from Coinbase Pro?

Coinbase Pro offers lower fees and advanced trading features. To withdraw money from Coinbase Pro:

Log into Coinbase Pro.

Select the Portfolio tab and choose the asset to withdraw.

Click Withdraw, select Bank Account, and enter the amount.

Confirm and complete the withdrawal.

Funds will arrive based on your selected method.

What Are the Coinbase Withdrawal Limits?

Coinbase imposes withdrawal limits depending on account verification and method used.

Bank Account Withdrawal Limits:

Standard limit: $50,000 per day (for fully verified accounts)

Higher limits: Available for Coinbase Pro users

Instant Cash-Out Limits (Debit Card & PayPal):

Up to $100,000 per transaction

Crypto Withdrawal Limits:

Varies by cryptocurrency and network congestion.

No fixed limit for external crypto transfers, but network fees apply.

Conclusion

Withdrawing money from Coinbase Wallet to a bank account requires an extra step, as you need to first transfer crypto to Coinbase Exchange before converting it into fiat currency. By following this step-by-step guide, you can efficiently move your funds and cash out securely. Always check network fees and withdrawal limits before making transactions to ensure a smooth process.

FAQ

1. Can I withdraw money directly from Coinbase Wallet to my bank account?

No, you cannot withdraw money directly from Coinbase Wallet to a bank account. You must first transfer your crypto from Coinbase Wallet to your Coinbase account and then sell it for cash before withdrawing to your bank.

2. How do I transfer funds from Coinbase Wallet to my Coinbase account?

To transfer funds:

Open Coinbase Wallet and select the cryptocurrency you want to transfer.

Click Send and enter your Coinbase account’s receiving address.

Confirm the transaction and wait for it to process.

3. How do I cash out crypto from Coinbase to my bank account?

Sell your crypto on Coinbase for cash.

Go to the "Assets" tab and select your cash balance.

Click Cash Out and enter the amount.

Choose your bank and confirm the withdrawal.

4. How long does it take to withdraw money from Coinbase to a bank?

It depends on the withdrawal method:

Instant cashout to a linked card: A few minutes.

Bank transfers (ACH in the U.S.): 1–3 business days.

Wire transfer: Same-day or next-day processing.

5. Are there fees for withdrawing from Coinbase Wallet to a bank account?

Yes, there may be:

Network fees for transferring from Coinbase Wallet to Coinbase.

Transaction fees when selling crypto.

Withdrawal fees depending on the method used.

6. Can I withdraw fiat currency directly from Coinbase Wallet?

No, Coinbase Wallet is a self-custody wallet for storing crypto. You need to transfer funds to Coinbase first to convert them into fiat.

7. What cryptocurrencies can I withdraw from Coinbase Wallet to Coinbase?

You can transfer any supported cryptocurrency from Coinbase Wallet to Coinbase, but ensure that Coinbase supports the specific asset.

8. Can I withdraw to any bank account?

No, you must use a bank account that is linked and verified with your Coinbase account.

9. What should I do if my withdrawal is delayed?

Check your transaction history for processing status. If it’s still pending after the estimated time, contact Coinbase Support.

10. Is there a withdrawal limit?

Yes, Coinbase has withdrawal limits based on your verification level. Check your Account Limits under Settings in the Coinbase app.

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Social Media Analysis: YouTube’s Role in Digital Interaction

In the evolving digital landscape, social media platforms play a crucial role in shaping how people interact, share content, and engage with various communities. Among these platforms, YouTube stands out as a dominant force, influencing digital communication and media consumption on a global scale. The question often arises: Is YouTube a social media platform? While it primarily serves as a video-sharing website, its features, community-driven interactions, and engagement tools align with the core functions of social media. This article explores YouTube’s role in digital interaction and examines whether it fits within the definition of a social media platform.

Understanding YouTube’s Core Functions

What is YouTube?

YouTube, launched in 2005 and acquired by Google in 2006, is a video-sharing platform where users can upload, view, share, and comment on videos. Over the years, it has evolved from a simple video-hosting service to a comprehensive ecosystem that facilitates social interactions, content monetization, and brand marketing.

Features that Define YouTube

To understand whether YouTube qualifies as a social media platform, it is essential to examine its features:

Content Sharing – Users can upload and share videos, making it a hub for creators and audiences alike.

Community Engagement – Through comments, likes, and shares, users interact with creators and other viewers.

Subscription System – Similar to following on other social platforms, users can subscribe to channels and receive updates.

Live Streaming – YouTube Live enables real-time interaction between creators and their audiences.

Monetization & Influencer Marketing – Content creators earn revenue through ads, memberships, and sponsorships.

YouTube Shorts & Stories – Short-form videos enhance engagement, mimicking features from platforms like Instagram and TikTok.

YouTube as a Social Media Platform

The Social Media Definition

Social media platforms are characterized by their ability to allow users to create, share, and engage with content in a social context. They facilitate digital interaction, communication, and networking. Some well-known social media platforms include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.

How YouTube Fits the Social Media Model

Although YouTube was initially designed as a video-hosting service, it has adopted several characteristics of social media platforms. Here’s how:

1. User Interaction and Engagement

YouTube fosters interaction through:

Comment sections, allowing discussions and feedback.

Likes and dislikes, reflecting audience preferences.

Sharing options, enabling content distribution across multiple platforms.

Community tab, where creators post updates, polls, and behind-the-scenes content.

2. Content Creation and Influencer Culture

Social media thrives on user-generated content, and YouTube exemplifies this through:

A diverse range of creators producing videos in various niches.

A growing influencer market where individuals build brands and monetize their reach.

Opportunities for collaboration among content creators, enhancing networking and engagement.

3. Algorithm-Driven Content Discovery

Similar to social media platforms, YouTube’s algorithm curates and recommends content based on user preferences, past interactions, and trending topics. This personalization enhances engagement and ensures users remain active on the platform.

YouTube’s Role in Digital Interaction

Educational and Informational Content

YouTube serves as a valuable educational resource, providing tutorials, lectures, and expert discussions on various topics. It enhances learning through visual storytelling and step-by-step guides.

Entertainment and Cultural Influence

From music videos and vlogs to comedy sketches and documentaries, YouTube is a primary source of entertainment. The platform influences cultural trends, challenges, and viral content, shaping digital interactions globally.

Marketing and Business Opportunities

Brands leverage YouTube for advertising, influencer partnerships, and customer engagement. The platform provides businesses with a vast audience and innovative marketing strategies, making it a powerful tool for digital commerce.

Social and Political Discourse

YouTube plays a significant role in shaping opinions on social and political issues. Content creators discuss news, policies, and global events, allowing for discourse, awareness, and activism.

The Debate: Is YouTube a Social Media Platform?

Arguments Supporting YouTube as Social Media

Interactive Features – Like, comment, share, and subscription functionalities promote engagement.

Community Building – Users form communities around shared interests.

Influencer and Brand Collaboration – Content creators use YouTube as a business platform.

Real-Time Communication – Live streaming fosters direct interaction between creators and audiences.

Arguments Against YouTube as Social Media

Primary Focus on Video Content – Unlike traditional social media, YouTube prioritizes long-form content over quick interactions.

Less Instantaneous Communication – While YouTube allows interaction, it lacks real-time messaging features like Facebook or Instagram.

Content Consumption Over Social Networking – Many users passively consume content rather than actively engaging with others.

Conclusion

YouTube has undeniably revolutionized digital interaction by offering a platform where users can share, discover, and engage with video content. While it differs from traditional social media platforms in some aspects, its community-driven approach, interactive features, and content-sharing capabilities align with the core characteristics of social media. Thus, YouTube is indeed a social media platform, but one that centers around video content rather than text-based interactions or direct networking.

As digital trends continue to evolve, YouTube’s role in social media will likely expand, incorporating more interactive features and social networking elements. Whether used for entertainment, education, marketing, or social discourse, YouTube remains an essential part of the digital landscape, bridging the gap between content creation and social engagement.