The social network’s latest “Snapchat killer” looks like a dud. Facebook‘s (NASDAQ:FB) Instagram recently launched Threads, a stand-alone messaging app that lets users start individual or group chats. Users can send vanishing photos and short videos, and let the app automatically update their
The app can help expand our love of the designed world and incite our curiosity. Or it can turn us into sheep. On my phone, Instagram is a series of squares and rectangles with pictures of babies, clogs, books, lakes and
Instagram on Thursday added a way for users to easily report deceptive posts at the photo and video-oriented social network owned by Facebook. A new tool being rolled out out lets Instagram users tap a “report” option on-screen when they
Instagram’s Story feature has a lot of AR effects for selfies by default. It can be easily accessed by opening the camera in the app and tapping on the emoji on the bottom right. For a while, Instagram had been
Instagram seems to have purged most of the top meme accounts on the platform. On Thursday and Friday, reports that meme accounts with follower counts in the hundreds of thousands and even millions were being permanently banned for violating the platform’s
Instagram’s newest Stories sticker lets people ask their followers to join a new group chat and then gives the poster the power to select who can join. The new feature, called the chat sticker, joins a bunch of other stickers
Gen Z’s front-page news is being found on their Instagram feed. In 2019, social-media use is a given across all generations. But more than half of the young people whom Business Insider surveyed in a recent national poll said they
The co-founders of photo-sharing giant Instagram, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, are both leaving the firm. Mr Systrom, chief executive, said they were departing to “explore our curiosity and creativity”. Instagram, which was purchased by Facebook in 2012 for $1bn