October 13th, 2018The photo-messaging mobile application Instagram that is owned by Facebook is reportedly testing "tapping" as a replacement of scrolling through posts on the platform. The social firm is testing the tap-to-advance feature to navigate between posts in the Explore section of the app.
"We're always testing ways to improve the experience on...
September 25th, 2018The co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have reportedly stepped down and now have plans to leave the company in coming weeks.
This move is possible to add to the challenges faced by Instagram’s parent company, Facebook. The two co-founders did not give a reason for their departure,...
September 14th, 2018Photo and video sharing social platform Instagram that is owned by Facebook is launching a new "prompt feature" that would pop-up if the users try to find substance abuse related recovery and treatment services. This would even happen if they try to purchase drugs illegally on the platform using certain hashtags such as...
August 30th, 2018With the tough fight among the social media giants including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc, it has always been the primary motive of these companies to target the teenagers as most of the user base of the social media platforms comes from the teens.
Though Instagram and Facebook have been prevailing in the market since a long...
August 29th, 2018The photo and video-sharing social networking platform Instagram has brought in a variety of fresh tools with security and transparency in focus. The company has announced three considerable updates for better security of users.
The three updates include “About this account” section – This section will provide users more context...
August 21st, 2018It’s quite impossible to remember the time when we didn’t use the tagging system on social media through hashtags, but for your surprise hashtag has been with us for only eleven years.
It was for the first time used by former Google and Uber designer Chris Messina on 23 August 2007 on Twitter, and since then it has flooded the...
August 2nd, 2018Facebook and Instagram, the most popular social platforms have announced that they want to help the users have a control on the time they have spent on the apps including tools that set daily limits.
In a statement, the social media players introduced “new tools” which would help the users in managing the time that they spent on...
June 30th, 2018Instagram’s director of comms, Gabe Madway who provided services to the company for the past four years is resigning from his position to work for a new company by the end of the summers. It has been reported that he will be replaced by Anna White who is a part of Facebook’s internal PR team.
Prior to joining Instagram, Madway was...
June 26th, 2018Facebook Owned Photo Sharing Platform, Instagram has been estimated to be worth more than $100 billion, if it were a stand-alone company, making a 100 fold return for the app, as per the report published by Bloomberg Intelligence.
Instagram is garnering new customers faster than Facebook's main site each day and going by the pace it...
June 21st, 2018The Facebook-owned multimedia social platform Instagram has announced the launch of its new mobile application called IGTV on Wednesday, which will allow the users to upload up to an hour long videos, generating a battle with YouTube.
The new IGTV service will be made available to the users in the coming few weeks through the main...
May 26th, 2018Its just been a few hours when European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect and now a news has surfaced that Google and Facebook have been hit with privacy complaints that could carry fines of up to $9.3 billion in total.
Austrian privacy-advocacy group Noyb.eu has said that with regard to privacy,...
May 25th, 2018Social Media Giant, Facebook has launched an archive of US political ad on its platform which showcases details like who paid for them and other details, after an outcry over Russians' alleged purchase of such ads during the 2016 elections.
Facebook which today has 2.2 billion monthly active users had promised seven months ago to...
