Tag: Instagram
3 Local SEO Strategies For Instagram: Get Discovered in Your Area
We live in a world where Local SEO in search is spread across all platforms. While we all know Google takes up the highest...
Everything You Need To Know About Meta’s Threads
A week ago, Meta-Facebook and Instagram's parent company-released their ambitious new app "Threads". Threads is currently the fastest growing app in the world. By...
How to Buy A Verification Checkmark on Facebook and Instagram
A month ago, and in line with its unoriginal approach that we have seen in the past, Meta copied Twitter Blue by launching paid...
Kenyans Are the Most Online Users in Africa
I thought I was a chronic online user and then I looked at the data and the revelations are wild when it comes to...
Here’s Who Should Pay for Meta Verified Subscription Plan
Your time on social media platforms was what made these platforms get big and thus earn revenue through advertising but new privacy regulations and...
Now There Is a Price for Your Social Media Addiction
Social credibility in the previous years was brought with a small check button ✔, no one with that was a mere mortal man when...
Meta Now Allows You to Buy the Verified Blue Checkmark for Instagram and Facebook
Keeping with its theme of being unoriginal, Meta has copied Twitter Blue and is rolling paid blue badges which is the Meta Verified subscription...
Meta Testing Paid Verified Blue Badges for Instagram and Facebook
Instagram is known for copying rival social media platforms when it comes to features. We've seen them clone features from Snapchat to TikTok and...
Instagram Rolls out Quiet Mode: A New Way to Spend Less Time on Your Addictions
Instagram has launched Quiet mode to help users focus and to encourage people to set boundaries with their friends and followers. Once enabled, you won’t...
Instagram Brings Back Compose Button to the Bottom, Shifts Focus From Reels
Instagram has redesigned its home screen to bring the compose shortcut button to the shortcuts at the app's bottom. The bottom shortcuts originally had...
Instagram: Tips To Protect Your Privacy and Help You Stay Secure in 2023
In recent years, Instagram has become a popular platform for sharing photos and videos with friends and family plus also a platform to share your creative...
TikTok Begins Shift From Vertical Video
TikTok originally made the vertical video popular and its rival copied this format and launched their own versions like Reels for Instagram and Shorts...
Twitter Follows Instagram in Copying TikTok
Twitter has announced plans to add new features to make it easier for users to watch and discover new videos while on the platform....
TikTok Now Popularity Soars in Kenya, Beats Its Rival BeReal
With users detesting Instagram's algorithm and design changes, they are now switching to platforms like BeReal that's becoming more popular with Gen Z. The...
Instagram Working On Nudity Protection Feature
Getting unsolicited nude content on your DMs is the worst part of Instagram and the company is now working to fix that.
Instagram is...
Facebook Scales Back Experimental Team To Focus on This Feature
Meta is shrinking Facebook’s New Product Experimentation division as its tries to focus on its rival.
The experimental team was set up in late...
Instagram Reels Continue Struggling Against TikTok
Video has become Meta's priority as it competes with Beijing-based ByteDance-owned TikTok. This focus has blinded them to ruining Instagram's interface with changes...
Instagram Begins Showing Ads in Between Your Personal Stories
Ads. Ads. Ads. Any under-utilized space in Facebook’s platform is free real estate for ads. The latest casualty is your Instagram stories.
In 2019, Instagram started showing double ads...
Instagram Bows to Pressure, Walks Backs Recent Changes
After receiving criticism from users and mega influencers and Reality TV moguls Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner this last few days, Instagram finally caved...
All Instagram Videos Under 15 Minutes To Be Treated as Reels
Tiktok is the leading social media platform right now. No one would have thought that a social media app that was created after the...
Instagram Direct Messaging is Still Down
Popular social media platform Instagram is having an outage on its messaging feature. Issues on DMs started last evening on the Meta-owned platform as...
Instagram Reels Length Increased to 90 Seconds With Interactive Stickers
TikTok is giving Meta-owned Instagram sleepless nights and now the giant photo and video sharing platform is taking a page from it and increasing...
Kenya Decides 2022: Meta’s Efforts to Promote Election Integrity on Its Platforms
Kenya is heading towards its elections set for August 9th this year where its citizens will vote in county-level, legislative and presidential elections.
A civic...
Tiktok Accused of Creating Fake User Accounts
Former employees of ByteDance Inc. have revealed that the company created fake user accounts.
ByteDance owns Tiktok, which hosts a variety of short-form user...
Instagram Upgrades DM Inbox, Adds Polls, Music Sharing and More
Meta is running new updates to its apps - from WhatsApp Voice Messaging, Facebook Messenger and now Instagram DM inbox.
Meta is adding really interesting...
Twitter New Collab Feature to Let You Co-author Tweets
Twitter has been on a roll testing and launching new features - mostly clones of other social media features. The latest one comes from...
Facebook Paid Republican Firm to Run TikTok Smear Campaign
TikTok has been Facebook's number one rival in the social media space. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive has even said that TikTok is a...
Facebook to Verify Political Ads Ahead of August Elections
Kenya is heading towards its elections set for August this year where its citizens will vote in county-level, legislative and presidential elections.
To maintain...
Instagram Should Make This Privacy Feature Available for All
TikTok has better privacy measures when compared to Instagram.
One of TikTok's privacy features is the ability to hide following and follower lists on your...
All the Instagram Apps That Have Been Discontinued
Instagram is known to launch new apps dedicated to the features the platform boasts of. In recent years, the Meta-owned photo and video sharing...
Tech Companies That Have Suspended Services in Russia
Russia has now passed North Korea and Iran to become the most sanctioned nation in the world following President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The...
Social Media Platforms Can’t Keep Up With Misinformation on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Misinformation is a huge problem for social media platforms including TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Telegram and Twitter. It has gotten worse with Russia's invasion of...
Meta Considering Shutting Down Facebook and Instagram in Europe
The European Union has been looking into Privacy Shield and other agreements that allow for transatlantic data transfers, particularly on how data from European...
Facebook Isn’t Listening On Your Phone. It Doesn’t Have To
Early this week, a video went viral(20 million views) on TikTok about how Facebook is listening on your phone. The woman in the video...
Spotting Instagram Infringement Scams, and How to Protect Yourself
The majority of us are Instagram users, and it is possible that some of us know how easy it is for other people to...
