In an email to employees, the Twitter-backed platform outlined steps it is taking to 'become leaner and position the company better for the future'
Acquires memes platform Memer for an undisclosed amount
As regional language media consumption soars during the lockdown, social media app ShareChat goes full throttle with brand integrations
The platform also recorded over 10 million WhatsApp shares of the content created by users
New Delhi, 6 January An ad hoc committee of the Rajya Sabha met executives from online social media platforms Google, Twitter and ShareChat, as also the HERD Foundation, on the "alarming issue of pornography on social media and its effect on children and society as a whole". According to a person present, the MPs asked the companies about ways to curb child pornography on their respective platforms. The meeting was attended by Rahul Jain, the India manager for public policy at Google; Twitter India policy head Mahima Kaul; Berges Malu, head of public policy and policy communications at Indian language content platform ShareChat; and Amol Deshmukh and Suchika Gupta of HERD Foundation. Another person aware of the discussion said one of the executives suggested something on the lines of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act in America. That law is designed to limit the collection and use of personal information about children by operators of internet services and websites. The ...
Sharechat observed that 23% users created entertainment-related content on its platform while engagement on romantic content was around 14%
Given that the platform is available for users in their local Indian languages, the engagement levels are high at about 23-24 minutes a day.
ShareChat is India's largest regional social network that claims 60 million monthly active users
On October 30 last year, the High Court had ordered ByteDance, which owns Helo and popular short video app TikTok, to stop placing bids on 'ShareChat' as a keyword on Google's AdWords platform
The removal of over 54,000 accounts was the largest such removal yet, ShareChat said
ShareChat claims itself to be the country's first vernacular language social platform targeting Tier-II and Tier-III cities
ShareChat offers content consumption in 10 languages; needs to fix bugs in video uploading and downloading, writes Shameen Alauddin
Oriya-only interface developed using colloquial words and phrases; nine of 10 new users likely to use internet in native language, says report
ShareChat, which allows users to share content in vernacular languages, needs to sharpen its proposition
ShareChat also provides services in Marathi, Malayalam, Telugu and Oriya, reports Tech in Asia
It has over one million users who have downloaded its app and nearly half of them are active users of its platform