This week on the Softonic Roundup, Twitter tests polling, YouTube starts charging, Facebook brings internet to the refugee camps, and more. If you are tired for retweeting to show you like Football or liking to demonstrate your love of baseball, then Twitter is here to help with a new polling service that it has just begun testing. The new tool started springing up last week for Twitter employees and verified accounts. It allowed these users to start creating their own polls, which game other users the option to pick between two responses for 24 hours before the results are tallied. We are eager for this tool to go on general release for all users soon, partly so we can experiment with it, and partly so we no longer get unnecessary retweets telling us our friends prefer dogs. http://mashable.com/2015/09/25/twitter-experiment-polls There are murmurings that soon you may be paying to watch YouTube. Of course the video streaming service will not end its free model, but the rumors suggest that paying may remove ads and provide a subscription to YouTube Music Key – the company’s music service – which is currently in beta. In an article on re/code, speculation has the price of a subscription at $10 a month which, if true, could be a huge competitor for Spotify and Apple Music. When this service will be introduced is still unknown, but a recent email to YouTube content owners requested that they accept a new agreement by October 22 or their content would no longer be available for public display or monetization. http://recode.net/2015/09/25/youtube-is-prepping-its-subscription-launch-two-services-one-price/ Google has just turned 17 and yesterday they took the opportunity to celebrate their humble beginnings with everyone courtesy of the famous Google Doodle. It’s odd to think that at 18 Softonic are a year older than the internet behemoth – don’t you hate it when the younger kids get bigger than you? https://www.google.com/doodles/googles-17th-birthday Last week also saw Samsung bringing virtual reality closer to an actual reality with the announcement of a release date and price for its Samsung Gear VR. This peripheral will release in November and will only set shoppers back $99. True, you will still need a 2015 Samsung phone, such as the Note 5 or S6, to use the headset, but it’s still a whole 100 dollars cheaper than the company’s previous head set the Gear VR, and looks set to be the cheapest way for consumers to enjoy new digital realities. http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/24/gear-vr-for-all Also last week, Instagram announced that it has reached 400 million users - just nine months after having reached 300 million. In just nine months they have gained 100 million users. Many of these new users come from Europe and Asia, but the company specifically highlights Brazil, Japan, and Indonesia for this huge jump. With this, Instagram has overtaken Twitter, who are sat at 316 million users. http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/instagram-hits-400m-users-just-nine-months-after-announcing-300m/ Finally, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg spoke at the UN headquarters of his plans to work alongside the UN to deliver internet to Syrian refugee camps. The goal is to help refugees find and reconnect with lost loved ones, as well as helping them communicate so they can create better support networks and lift themselves from poverty. http://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-working-with-un-to-bring-internet-access-to-refugee-camps/