There’s a new Instagram fad in town, and it promises to bring you more followers, likes, comments, and exposure for your work. No, we’re not talking about botting—that’s already on its way out.
If you use your Instagram account as a main online portfolio for your photography, it’s important to make sure you’re presenting your work and skills well. Here’s a 14-minute video in which photographer Peter McKinnon shares tips for taking your Instagram to the next level.
Without a doubt, Instagram is one of the most exciting social media platforms anywhere. It is now ranked the number two most active social media platform by number of users (just behind Facebook) with over 600 million participants.
Instagram has announced that starting now and rolling out over the next few weeks, anyone will be able to "remix" any public photos on the app and turn them into Reels. [Read More]
Meta, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, has been served with eight different lawsuits that contend the company deliberately adjusted its algorithm to hook young people. [Read More]
Grainery is a new photo-sharing app designed for film photography enthusiasts. Its beta version is out now and will launch on iOS and Android soon. [Read More]
Snapchat, Google, and Apple are being sued by a 16-year-old girl and her mother who claim the platforms failed to protect teen users from “egregious harm.” [Read More]
Flickr is taking a stand on artistic nudity. The company says that as the world's largest independent photographer-focused community, it is encouraging the publication of any kind of photography without the fear of bans or account deletion. [Read More]
Just a week after Russia announced that it had banned Facebook, Meta's other popular platform Instagram will be blocked in the country on March 14. [Read More]
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]
Facebook is reportedly planning to change its company name next week as it focuses on becoming a metaverse company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone on the record in the past about making Facebook about more than social media.
A new bill proposed by four lawmakers aims to strip Section 230 protections from algorithm-based recommendations like Facebook’s newsfeed and hold social media companies accountable for what is fed to its users.
I have a good friend that uses Facebook as his photography business’s digital platform. I have multiple friends that use Instagram as their portfolio. This also goes for, yes to a lesser degree, using Behance, Tumbler, Model Mayhem, Imgur, and Flickr as a portfolio destination.
Instagram’s head Adam Mosseri has announced that the company is pausing development for an “Instagram for Kids” amid outside pressure from lawmakers and regulators, although Mosseri says Instagram still believes it’s “the right thing to do.
Minutiaecoins itself as the “anti-social” social app. It challenges conventional design by restricting users to just one minute of usage per day and anonymizes shares in an attempt to encourage users to “embrace the boring and mundane.
One of the most frequent questions I am asked is about social media likes and followers and how to ‘boost’ those numbers. There are a few questions I will always ask: 1. Why? Simple first question.
Instagram Lite is a less data-intensive, smaller Android-only version of Facebook’s popular application and is going live in 170 countries as part of the social media giant’s push into emerging markets.
Senior dogs are typically harder to find homes for than younger puppies but are no less in need of a home. To help encourage their adoption, the Flagler Humane Society has playfully dressed these older dogs as senior citizens in an ongoing photo series. As reported by CBS News and My Modern Met, the idea […]
A federal judge has ruled in favor of Pinterest in a lawsuit by a photographer who claimed the company infringed over fifty of his copyrighted works by displaying them alongside advertisements in the form of "promoted pins." [Read More]
More than five years after the company did away with the chronological feed in lieu of an algorithm-based system, Instagram has officially brought it back after teasing its return yesterday. [Read More]
Instagram has pulled the Boomerang and Hyperlapse apps from the Apple and Google app stores. While the company was expected to wind down the IGTV app, the removal of these two apps was a surprise. [Read More]
Instagram, still scrambling to recover its public image amid repeated reports that its product is dangerous for young people, will push "potentially harmful" content farther down a user's feed, but won't hide it entirely. [Read More]
After a woman who brazenly drove her car across the top of a frozen river in Canada crashed through the surface, onlookers were confused and shocked to find that she stopped to take a selfie with the sinking car before making it to safety. [Read More]
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a new bill that would make it mandatory for services that use algorithms to serve content to offer a version that allows users to turn that feature off.
A group of scammers is reportedly abusing Instagram’s protections against self-harm and impersonation and will target and ban nearly any Instagram account they want seemingly at will. Anyone can pay for the “ban-as-a-service,” and it costs as little as $5.
Photographer Dinda Avena wants to inspire those who have experienced and survived violence, feel unsafe in public, who are suffering due to sexual identity, for those whose land is being seized, and for all marginalized communities to not let their voices fade away.
Facebook Rights Manager, which helps creators protect unauthorized image use, has been gradually rolling out since it was announced last year. As part of that process, the system can now provide detailed insights to photographers into how photos are used, including unauthorized use.
In March, Instagram was reportedly working on a version of its app that was designed specifically for children. Today, four Democratic lawmakers have expressed concern over the project, and have written a letter to CEO Mark Zuckerburg asking fourteen pointed and technical questions about the initiative.