Instagram’s Threads is Testing an In-App Camera

Threads has started to test out one of its "most requested" features: an in-app camera.

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Mobster Does Not Regret the ‘Great’ Topless Photo That Led to Arrest

A Colombo crime family "underboss" sentenced to prison this week for extortion and money laundering has said he doesn't regret the topless poolside photo that led to his arrest. [Read More]

Instagram Status Updates Now Includes Songs and Translations

Six months ago, Meta introduced new sharing-focused features on Instagram, including Notes, Group Profiles, and new Stories functionality. As it turns out, Notes have proven very popular with young users, prompting Instagram to add more features to it including the ability to attach a 30-second clip of a song to a status update. [Read More]

Twitter Expands Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Following Phony Viral Photo

About a week after an artificial intelligence (AI) generated image of an explosion outside the Pentagon went viral on Twitter, the social media giant is using its crowdsourced fact-checking program, Community Notes, to fight back against fake or misleading images. [Read More]

Leaked Image Shows What Instagram’s New Twitter Competitor Looks Like

Meta was rumored to be working on a standalone Twitter competitor, and a new leak shows not only what it might look like, but also how it would pair and sync with Instagram and other apps. [Read More]

Twitter vs. Flickr: A View Count Comparison for Photographers

Last week, Twitter announced that they were adding view counts to tweets on Twitter. I thought I’d use the announcement to very unscientifically compare the number of views one of my photos received on Twitter vs. Flickr. [Read More]

Hive Social is Back Online, Two Weeks After Security Issues Shut It Down

Hive Social is back online, two weeks after its creators abruptly shut the service down in order to address security issues. [Read More]