Twitter is making a Periscope button available to everyone using its Android and iOS apps. “When you're starting a new tweet, you can tap a ‘live’ button in the media picker to hop over to Periscope (it'll offer a download if you don't already have the app) and start broadcasting,” Engadget reports.

Facebook just added a Home tab to Messenger, which organizes recent conversations, favorites, active users, and unopened messages. Bigger picture, “Facebook wants to make Messenger the app to anchor a post-app Internet that lets you do everything within a chat,” Wired writes.

Facebook is making easier for users to help friends who post messages about suicide or self-harm. “With the new features, people can flag friends’ posts that they deem suicidal,” The New York Times reports. “The posts will be reviewed by a team at the social network that will then provide language to communicate with the person who is at risk, as well as information on suicide prevention.”

Twitter is bolstering its Fabric mobile app with more powerful analytics. “Twitter is letting you obsess over your own user numbers with insights on daily new users and retention, where Fabric compares your new user numbers to the same metric from last week,” The Next Web reports. “Additionally, developers can now check changes in user behavior with the mobile app.”

New York Times editor Jon Weisman is quitting Twitter, because of the platform’s failure to stem the tide of anti-Semitism tweeted in his direction. “Weisman said that Twitter responded by saying the tweets didn't violate the company's rules and none of the users would be suspended,” CNNMoney reports. In response, Weisman says he’ll be joining Facebook.

Tinder about to discontinuing its app for users under the age of 18 years old. “The dating app has allowed everyone 13 years of age or older to use the app since it launched back in 2012,” TechCrunch notes. “Anyone between 13 and 17 years old was only allowed to match with others in that pool.”

So as to distance itself from Donald Trump's racist rhetoric, BuzzFeed is walking away from anad deal with the Republican National Committee. “The buy was for $1.3 million,” Politico reports, citing sources. “The source said that the main consideration was the site’s employees.”

Facebook is testing ways to let users initiate a “Safety Check” during a natural disaster or terrorist attack. “In coming weeks, the giant social network will test a version in which users can notify loved ones that they are safe and send an invitation to friends in the area to do the same,” USA Today reports. Presently, only company staff can initiate a Safety Check.

Snapchat quietly acquired 3D photo app maker Seene -- which also goes by the name Obvious Engineering -- a couple months back, TechCrunch reports. “Seene lets you capture 3D models from your phone with a simple smartphone camera,” it writes. “Snapchat could use Seene’s format for a brand new category of selfie lenses.”

Vanity Fair looks inside Twitter, and considers whether the return of co-founder Jack Dorsey as CEO is having the desired effect. “The solution to Twitter’s problems … is that word ‘live,’” it writes. “A slew of new features … including hosting live video from the N.F.L., where people can talk about the game as they watch it … will grow the audience and focus on that single, live strategy.” Or, at least that’s the idea. Or, Twitter could just sell to the highest bidder.