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    Instagram now lets you livestream one-on-one with a friend

    Instagram has a new feature that lets you live stream one-on-one with a person of your choice. Once they join you, you'll see a split screen of your feed and theirs.
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    Instagram adds polls to Stories

    Instagram has added a polls feature to stories. You can add a two-choice poll with stickers of your choosing.
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    Instagram is expanding its shopping features

    Facebook is partnering with BigCommerce to make its advertising platform on Instagram available to more merchants who want to sell on the social media platform.
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    Instagram adds more fine-tuned comment control

    Instagram is introducing more tools to let you control who can comment on your posts. You can now set your comments to be open only to people you follow, people who follow you, or both.
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    Instagram is adding Face Filters to live broadcasts

    Instagram Live now has support for face filters while you're live broadcasting.
  6. Android News

    Face Filters have arrived for Instagram Live videos

    Globally rolling out over the next few weeks, you can now utilize Face Filters when streaming via Instagram Live.
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    Instagram now lets you share stores directly to friends

    instagram is expanding its stories feature to allow you to share stories to friends in direct conversations.
  8. Android News

    Instagram Stories now available on mobile web

    Instagram has announced you can now view Instagram Stories on the mobile web instead of needing to have the app installed.
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    USA Today and Instagram partner up to livestream next week's solar eclipse

    The USA Today Network has announced that in collaboration with Instagram, it will livestream the total solar eclipse on August 21st.
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    You can now reply to your Instagram DMs with pictures and video

    Users could already reply to photos, videos, and reshared posts sent to their DMs with their own photo or video, but now, a sticker of whatever they're responding to will automatically show up in their reply.
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    Instagram adds comment threading

    Starting with version 24 of Instagram for Android and iOS, comment threads are a thing. This makes Instagram more like Facebook, its parent company, as that social network has had comment threading from time immemorial.
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    Instagram livestreamers can add a guest to their broadcasts

    Today, Instagram announced that some users will be able to add a "guest" to their live broadcasts, essentially adding a second contributor to the livestream.
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    School kids are finding creative ways to shame their classmates online

    Android Central's Russell Holly has shared a close personal experience involving some online bullying his daughter was subjected to thanks to the ease of uploading photos to Instagram.
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    Instagram gives businesses tools to keep comments in check

    Instagram has updated its API and is giving businesses access to content metrics as well as new tools for managing comments. Now, through the API, businesses can turn comments on and off as well as hide them.
  15. Android News

    10 best apps like Instagram

    Looking for an alternative to Instagram? Here's a peek at 10 apps that offer the same features.
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    Instagram will use AI to combat offensive comments

    Instagram has detailed the new ways they're combating abuse and offensive comments on their platform. The company will use AI to help them quickly and more accurately identify nasty posts and take action ASAP.
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    A new Instagram feature lets you share with a specific group of people

    Instagram is testing a new Favorites feature that will let you share posts and stories to a specific group of friends.
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    Instagram Stories is up to 250 million daily active users

    Facebook's global head of sales has confirmed that Instagram Stories is now at 250 million daily active users, which surpasses the amount of Sanpchat users.
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    Instagram adds 24-hour live video replays to Stories

    Instagram has released a new feature for Stories which allows users to rewatch videos for 24 hours after the broadcast ends.
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    Instagram adds some new face filters for you to play with

    Last month, Instagram released a new version of their app that added a new feature called Face Filters. The feature is similar to what Snapchat has, but Instagram has a long way to go to catch up and the latest update adds some more filters to try out.
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    You can save battery life by using lightweight versions of popular Android apps

    Social network applications are generally really tough on your battery life because they want to keep you notified about what your friends are doing. These can get out of hand though and Phandroid has a guide up on how to install lightweight versions of applications such as Twitter, Facebook...
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    Instagram is making a change to how sponsored posts appear

    In a new blog post, Instagram has confirmed that it will begin clearly labeling when an image or Instagram Story is part of a business arrangement. The words "Paid partnership with" will appear at the top of these posts.
  23. Android News

    Instagram rolls out its Archive feature to all users

    Last month Instagram rolled out an archive feature to beta testers. Now it's available to everyone.
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    Google shares some of the best pictures taken with the Pixel that were pulled from Instagram

    For the past few months, Google has been asking people on Instagram to take photographs with their Pixel phone and use the hashtag #teampixel. The company has now taken some of these best photos and embedded them in a blog post on The Keyword.
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    Russian vending machine lets you buy Instagram likes

    A new vending machine spotted in Russia will let you spend around $.89 to get 100 fake likes on any Instagram post you desire.