After a year of chasing TikTok's domination in short-form video, Meta is now reportedly considering building its own version of Twitter within its photo-sharing app, Instagram. [Read More]
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Meta isn't done trying to compete with BeReal. The Instagram owner is reportedly working on a new feature similar to BeReal's casual selling point. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2024-05-20 22:50
Instagram appears to be working on a new feature that will let users make their very own customizable "AI Friend."
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While Twitter did not have the smoothest rollout of its paid "verification" badges, Instagram might be toying with rolling such a feature out too if a few small references in its code are any indication of its plans. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2023-02-03 19:54
Instagram appears to be testing a new feature that would cover photos that may contain nudity in Direct Messages and safeguard users from unwanted content exposure. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-09-21 22:14
Instagram is reportedly working on a feature that would allow users to customize the order in which photos appear on their profile pages. The grid customization feature was recently discovered through an analysis of the app's code. [Read More] petapixel.com »
2022-01-11 23:14
Instagram may soon become a lot more interesting for photographers in search of inspiration. The photo sharing service is apparently testing allowing users to follow hashtags in addition to other users. petapixel.com »
2017-11-10 21:31
Instagram has long featured a 3×3 grid of photos across its platform, allowing photographers to get creative and create larger photo mosaics by uploading the individual pieces as separate photos in the correct order. petapixel.com »
2017-09-19 19:53
Instagram: if you can name another social media platform that pisses off photographers as much I'd be shocked. But the truth is that lots of photographers seem to focus highly on Instagram vs Facebook or Twitter; and sometimes for obvious reasons. thephoblographer.com »
2017-05-02 16:00
Photographer Pete Souza, best known for his role as chief official White House photographer for Presidents Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, has deleted his X account (formerly Twitter) after making controversial remarks concerning a photo of former President and current Republican nominee, Donald Trump. [Read More]
Threads has started to test out one of its "most requested" features: an in-app camera.
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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]