A new update for Instagram appears to suggest that Facebook has started merging chats on the app with its Facebook Messenger service. Instagram’s mobile app started to update with some with the message “There’s a New Way to Message on Instagram” with a list of features including a “new colorful look for your chats,” more […]
Instagram Reels, the company’s significant effort in challenging TikTok on short-form creative content, is launching globally, starting today. The feature is being made available across 50 countries, including the U.S. Reels, which has already been live in India and Brazil, is launching now in 50 countries, including the US, UK, France, Australia and Japan. It’s […]
Starting today, some Instagrammers can run fundraisers for a cause that’s important to them, themselves, their small business or a friend. It’s effectively a take on GoFundMe directly within the app. Instagram is initially testing the Personal Fundraiser feature in the US, UK and Ireland, and it follows Facebook rolling out a similar function in […]
Instagram confirmed it’s preparing to soon launch its TikTok competitor, known as Reels, in the U.S. The company expects to bring the new video feature which is designed specifically for short-form, creative content to its platform in early August, according to a spokesperson. The U.S. launch comes shortly after Reels’ arrival in India this month, […]
Instagram lets you embed posts from any public account on the platform. This may however get difficult as you may need to get permission to embed someone’s Instagram post. This new development was confirmed by Instagram itself following a lawsuit was filed by photographer Elliot McGucken against Newsweek for embedding his Instagram post. Newsweek on […]
There’s a new glitch that allowed people post extra-long images onto their feeds. It’s attention-grabbing for pretty obvious reasons: they take a while to scroll past. Instagram normally limits portrait photos to roughly the size of your screen. The glitch appears to have only worked on iOS. To make it work, you basically just created […]
Facebook today is introducing another feature aimed at making it easier to see who’s behind the posts published across Facebook and Instagram. The company says it will now display the location of the Facebook Page or Instagram account with a large audience on every post it shares, so end users have a better understanding of […]
Instagram’s founders, who have been mostly out of the public eye since leaving Facebook in 2018, introduced a website that gives live state-by-state updates on the spread of Covid-19 across the US.RT.live uses a statistic called an effective reproduction number, which tracks the average number of people who catch the coronavirus from a single infected […]
Instagram has started rolling out web access to direct messages to all of its users globally. The company announced the rollout today on its Twitter account. As usual, you may have to wait a while before you get access to the feature. Instagram has been testing web DMs with a small group of users since […]
Social networks are joining streaming services in reducing video quality to help European networks deal with demand from people staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Earlier this week, Netflix, Alphabet Inc’s YouTube, Amazon and Disney said they would downgrade their video quality. EU industry chief Thierry Breton has urged streaming platforms to free up […]
Instagram is attempting to stop the spread of misinformation about the novel coronavirus pandemic that’s surfacing through its augmented reality effects. In an update to its AR creators Facebook group, the company wrote that it has removed already-published AR effects and will reject any pending requests for effects that claim to “predict, diagnose, treat, or […]
Instagram has added some more ways to organize the list of people you’re following. You can see which people are flooding your feed and Stories the most and which accounts you interact with least often. So, if you’ve realized you’re following too many people and want to make your feed a bit more manageable, you’ll […]
Instagram’s IGTV was supposed to usher in a new era for video in the social network, but that’s not quite how it panned out. And now, the company is tempering its expectations. A Facebook spokesperson has confirmed to TechCrunch that Instagram is removing the IGTV icon at the top of its main interface. “Very few” […]
Instagram is finally bringing direct messages to the web. Starting today, a “small percentage” of the platform’s global users will be able to access their DMs from Instagram’s website. Much like on your phone, you can participate in regular and group chats, share photos, ‘like’ messages and receive notifications. More news on a possible wider […]
Facebook revealed a handful of updates it says will increase your control of political ads but stood firm on its policy to let politicians lie in ads on the social network. Facebook plans to add a new control that will let people see fewer political and social issue ads on Facebook and Instagram. The feature […]