Do we finally have a sense of why so many key Facebook leaders, particularly co-founders of the myriad products that comprise its suite of apps, have left the company over the last year or so? Maybe, if today’s huge news revealed by The New York Times — about the company’s ambition via a directive from …
In an ambitious plan that will reportedly involve thousands of engineers, Facebook is embarking on a new initiative designed to integrate the messaging services across Instagram, WhatsApp, and of course, Facebook Messenger. Originally brought to light via The New York Times, the overarching goal is to allow users from any of the above platforms to …
Have you ever seen one of those Facebook status warning everyone that the social network is about to start charging people to access their accounts, and that they should share the status to convince Mark Zuckerberg to reconsider? A similar phenomenon has plagued Instagram lately, with posts claiming that only 7% of your followers can …
Netflix is rolling out a new feature today that’s going to mean a lot more content from the streaming video giant will start showing up in your Instagram Stories. Via an update to the iOS version of its app, you’ll now be able to share what you’re watching on Netflix directly to your Instagram Stories, …
If you’ve haven’t seen this in your Instagram feed already, just wait. It’s coming. The arrival of a new year means so many things. Turning a page on the calendar, the compilation of resolutions for the year ahead, endless lists about the “best of” this or that from 2018 — and tons of collages. Specifically, …
If the furor that erupted over Instagram’s botched test this week that inadvertently became a wider update of the app taught us anything, it’s this. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing service would presumably never admit this, but the interest in exploring a limited experiment of replacing the vertical scrolling feed with a horizontal, Stories-like progression of content …
In what has to be in the running for the most baffling move by a social media platform in 2018 (though Facebook has that award locked up already), Instagram began rolling out a new feed for some users this week which forced them to scroll through their friends’ photos horizontally rather than vertically. Instagram first …
Facebook would really like Instagram users to interact more with each other, especially in Instagram Stories, which is a feature that lets you share ephemeral photos and videos with your followers — a similar function exists on Facebook and WhatsApp. Instagram’s new tricks are all related to interacting with your friends inside the photo-sharing app …
What was that, you wanted your Instagram experience to be even more cluttered than before? Well, Facebook’s granting you that wish, as the company added a new feature that’s not necessarily a must-have trick for an app whose primary purpose is photography. The Direct chats available in Instagram now support voice messaging, whether you like …
Instagram is Facebook’s hottest property and on its way to being the social networking giant’s cash cow at this point, so no surprise the app once known primarily as a photo-sharing platform keeps looking for new ways to juice the amount of time users spend inside it. Instagram’s latest move: It’s finally paid attention to …
