Tag: Instagram
Kenyan DJs Are Going Live on Instagram to Keep You Entertained Amid The COVID-19 Pandemic
With the COVID-19 pandemic already in Kenya and the country now in curfew, it can get boring staying indoors so now Kenyan DJs are...
[UPDATED] Impact of Coronavirus(COVID-19) on Tech Companies So Far
Coronavirus(COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has brought panic across the world. The viral outbreak occurred just before the Lunar New Year in China - a time...
Huawei’s CEO Believes Facebook, Twitter and Instagram Will Come to App Gallery
Huawei is still on the United States entity list which bars it from transacting with American companies. This has forced them to release phones...
Instagram Now Shows You Who to Unfollow
Tokimeki-unfollow but for Instagram. Well, Marie Kondo's KonMari method has now hit the Facebook-owned photo and video sharing platform. But first, let's rewind to...
Instagram’s Partner Program to Soon Let IGTV Creators Start Earning Money From Ads
Finally, some money will soon start flowing into IGTV creators' accounts 18 months after launch. The giant photo and video sharing platform is testing an...
Instagram Raked in More Revenue than YouTube in 2019
Tech companies like Google and Facebook make a bulk of their revenue from ads. They have been so good at turning their various assets...
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Is a Big Fan of TikTok and Thinks It Could Become Bigger Than Instagram
Evan Spiegel, the Chief Executive Officer of Snap Inc, a camera and a social media company that's responsible for tech products like Spectacles, a...
Instagram Stops Featuring the IGTV Homepage Button
Instagram did their best to promote IGTV, their new long-form video platform which launched in June 2018. The launch event had delays because of problems with...
Instagram to Soon Bring DMs to the Desktop
If you literally live on your laptop or desktop and use Instagram a lot - then this latest news from the giant photo and...
Instagram Rolls Out New Boomerang Effects as They Play Catch up With TikTok
Instagram is rolling new updates to Boomerang as it tries to catch up with TikTok in terms of creative effects for video. Boomerang was...
[UPDATED] How to Secure Your Instagram Account
In recent years, Instagram has become a popular platform for sharing photos and videos with friends and family plus also being a platform to...
Instagram Rolls out New Privacy Controls for Its Users
Instagram has begun rolling out new privacy controls for its users. The giant photo-sharing platform Facebook bought in 2012 for $1 billion will now...
Compilation of the Best Memes When Facebook and Instagram Went Down
Facebook's most popular platforms, Facebook and Instagram went down last evening and the memes that followed took centre stage. Facebook's family of apps experienced...
Facebook Begins Testing Popular Photos, an Instagram Feed-Like Feature
With growing numbers on Instagram and dwindling Facebook numbers, Facebook is now trying to clone features from its popular platforms in a bid to...
Instagram Experimental Test on Hiding Like Counts Has Gone Worldwide
In July this year, Instagram began testing hiding like counts on select countries such as Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and New Zealand. Early...
Instagram Will Sponsor IGTV Creators Only If They Don’t Film Anything About Politics or Social Issues
Instagram really wants it long video platform, IGTV to succeed. It is now willing to cover the video production costs for IGTV creators but...
Facebook Begins Deleting Accounts of NSO Group Employees on its Social Media Platforms
Early this week, Facebook sued Israeli-based spyware maker NSO Group. WhatsApp took the surveillance contractor to court blaming them for the silent call exploit....
Wishlist: Features Instagram Should Have
Instagram has become a popular platform for sharing photos, videos, stories and had had very useful features it has copied from rival social media...
Instagram Threads App Shows Disappointing Download Numbers on the First Week
Instagram recently killed Direct, its standalone messaging app and now launched Threads to replace it but now with a focus on your close friends,...
Instagram to Add Direct Messaging Feature to its Web Interface
Instagram has mainly been focusing on upgrading features on its app and neglecting its web interface but that's about to change. The giant photo-sharing...
Rooney’s Wife Uses Instagram’s Close Friends to Figure out a Snitch
This has to be one of the best ways I've seen to out a snitch, and it was done thanks to Instagram Stories.
Coleen Rooney,...
Instagram’s New Camera Design Makes it Look Snapchat-Like
Instagram Stories are indeed popular. Over 500 million people use that feature daily and Instagram keeps adding features to it to make it more...
Dark Mode Comes to Instagram App on iOS 13 and Android 10
Just like Android 10, iOS 13 comes with system-wide dark mode and Instagram has updated its photo sharing app to use that dark mode...
No More Creeping as Instagram Pulls the Plug on the Following Tab on Its App
Instagram is bididng goodbye to this controversial feature of its app: the Following Tab. This means users can stop creeping on each other. The...
Instagram to Soon Bring GIF Story Replies, Group Stories And More Features
Instagram has been on a roll lately. The giant photo-sharing platform has been launching new features and quietly testing other features it plans to...
Instagram for Android to Finally Get App Shortcuts
If you use a lot of app shortcuts, you'll notice that Instagram hasn't yet implemented them. But now that's about to change.
Android has had...
Instagram Begins Testing Dark Mode on its Android App
Dark mode is finally here for both Android 10 and iOS 13. Most apps have been quick to adopt this change but third party...
Twitter Mocks Instagram by Using Screenshots of Tweets to Troll It
Instagram is a really good place to find the best tweets. When posted on Twitter, the tweets can get lost and you'll never find...
Facebook Considering Hiding Like Counts on the News Feed Posts
Facebook is considering hiding the like counts on users posts found on the News Feed just as the social media giant did for Instagram....
Instagram to Soon Allow Users to Natively Crosspost Their IGTV Videos to Facebook and Facebook Watch
In Facebook's plan to integrate al its apps under one roof, Instagram will soon let users natively crosspost their IGTV videos to Facebook and...
