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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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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