Articles tagged "Instagram"

Back in June 2020, Facebook launched Subscriptions to help creators earn money with the support of their communities. Now that business model has expanded to Instagram as the company announced Instagram Subscriptions. With Instagram...

Instagram is testing a new vertical scroll for Stories in Turkey and Brazil. This will put the touch control in line with Reels and rival TikTok. Instagram said back in February 2021 that it was working on vertically-scrolling Stories. Up until...

Instagram head Mr. Adam Mosseri announced that the company has started testing a new feature called "Take a Break" to help users curb their Instagram addiction and encourage them to take a break after spending a certain amount of time on the...

Today Instagram proudly announced that you can now see previews of Instagram posts on Twitter. These will automatically be made into a card format once you enter any Instagram link into any tweet. That sounds like a neat feature to have, of...

Instagram has announced that it's expanding the link-sharing feature in Stories to all its users. The company started testing this feature in June and replaced the swipe-up links with it in late August. Since the latter was only available to...

This afternoon, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post that Facebook will create new programs to invest more than $1 billion to incentivize creators to make content for Facebook and Instagram. The company appears to be making efforts to...

Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri recently took to Twitter to talk about the company's plans for the second half of 2021. In the video, Mosseri outlined some of the changes coming to Instagram over the next few months and what the company will be...

Instagram has started testing creating and publishing posts on desktop. The feature was spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra, who shared screenshots on Twitter, revealing users will have pretty much the same control over photos and their...

Instagram and Facebook have been experimenting with hiding the Like count for the past year, with the feature becoming official in the middle of the pandemic. Today the Instagram revealed it is bringing the counters back, but users will have control...

Most of Instagram's features have been exclusive to its mobile app, including one of its core functionalities - the ability to create and edit posts. Well, there has been a trend for the past year or so to expand the desktop Instagram site....

Back in March is when we heard the first reports from Buzzfeed about discussions within the company to plan an “Instagram for Kids” app that would allow children under the age of 13 to begin using the popular photos-sharing app in a supposedly safe...

Instagram’s efforts to block hateful or abusive DM requests will soon be taken another step further. In Instagram’s latest blog post, the app outlines how it will further prevent people from even seeing hateful or abusive DMs in the first...

Facebook has been testing Instagram Lite for some time, and finally made the application official. The new app is less data-intensive and uses fewer phone resources to appeal to users with low-end devices who live in regions with spotty...

Various data is used by companies like Facebook to personalize ads to an individual person based on demographics, geographic location, interests, and activity. Late last year, Apple introduced its new privacy-centered changes that forced all app...

Instagram's TikTok clone, Reels, has officially launched last August, but so far it's only been available in the main Instagram app. From today on, however, you can also find Reels inside Instagram Lite in India. As with all of Facebook's Lite...

When Instagram launched Reels back in August, everyone saw it as a direct response to TikTok - clearly the fastest growing social network at this moment. Both platforms provide a similar service, and content creators took it as a...

Instagram is working on vertical stories in TikTok style. And it kind of makes sense since most of the scrolling on our phones is done vertically as TikTok was quick to realize. The discovery was made by a developer, who was able to dig up...

Facebook might be forced to sell Instagram and WhatsApp after the company was accused of using predator strategy and its market dominance to snap up rivals and smaller competitors. The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Menlo Park,...

Ten days ago WhatsApp got Disappearing Messages and now the other two apps with messaging abilities in the Facebook family are adopting it. Both Messenger and Instagram will get Vanish Mode which will delete messages upon closing the conversation...

Today, Instagram is announcing new changes to its app that put Reels and its Shop features right in users’ faces. The company announced “big changes” to its app. The Reels and Shop tabs are now going to be featured right at the front and center of...