Articles tagged "Instagram"

Instagram’s efforts to compete with TikTok are growing with the blogging platform’s latest move. As per a screenshot posted to Twitter by Matt Navarra, Instagram has begun testing making every video...

Over in the US, Instagram has started testing new ways to have you verify your age. In addition to simply uploading your ID, a method that may take up to two days to verify, you now have two more...

This Wednesday, Meta announced that it is going to begin rolling out AMBER alerts (notifications of missing children in the area) to Instagram across 25 countries. Meta says it has helped authorities...

Instagram brings ‘1 Minute Music’, a collection of clips from songs and folks that are exclusively available for use on Instagram Reels or Stories. This includes music from more than 200 Indian...

Instagram brought back the chronological feed last month. Now the social network is experimenting with another requested feature – some users are reporting that they have the option to pin a post to...

For all haters of algorithmic feeds in social networking apps, today is a big day. That's because Instagram just announced it's bringing back the chronological feed. The new version of the app has...

Starting Tuesday, all Instagram users in the US can begin tagging brands’ products in their posts. Previously, this was only available to creator or business accounts. “Over the next few months” the...

Two more of Instagram’s standalone apps have been removed from app stores, as noted by some users on Twitter and reported by Tech Crunch. Both the Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps are no longer...

Instagram has been doing a bit of housekeeping as it figures out how it should stay relevant in a world where TikTok has garnered so many users in the last few years. In its latest post, Instagram...

Meta submitted a report, which warned it may shut down its Facebook and Instagram services in Europe due to new regulations approved by the European Commission. The new EU laws force all companies to...

A new EU law requires companies that gather user data within the union to keep and process that data on European servers. Facebook's and Instagram's data, however, is processed on both US and...

Meta's 3D avatars are meant to be an essential part of the whole metaverse so giving them a more detailed look makes sense. That's why the company added quite a few customizations to the feature. The...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...