Category: Social Media

Instagram Is Starting to Hide Like Counts. Here’s How to Future-Proof Your Social Strategy–and Win Customers in the Process

Instagram recently started hiding likes in six countries (New Zealand, Brazil, Australia, Italy, Ireland, and Japan) in hopes of building stronger connections between users rather than centering on vanity metrics. While this attempt toward creating meaningful content and improving users’ mental health is a positive change in some aspects, it’s left businesses, brands, and influencers all over the […]

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Instagram’s latest assault on Snapchat is a messaging app called Threads

The app promotes sharing your status, location, and more with your closest friends The working logo for Threads, a new messaging app from Facebook and Instagram Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook is developing a new messaging app called Threads that is meant to promote constant, intimate sharing between users and their closest friends, The […]

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Instagram is working on layouts for stories, New boomerangs, more

Instagram has been found testing several upgrades to stories that include a layout mode, new boomerangs, and redesigned icons. This test was discovered by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, whose track record for finding unreleased features is second-to-none. In the screenshot Wong shared on Twitter you can see the new icons and several of […]

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Instagram opens AR Filter creation tools to all users

Instagram is once again following the lead of Snapchat by opening up its Spark AR filter creation platform to all users, while also introducing a new library of user-created visual tools. As explained on the Facebook Developer blog: “Starting today, anyone can create and publish their own Spark AR effects on Instagram. We’re also introducing the new […]

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Snapchat announces new version of spectacles, with improved camera capacity

Despite various setbacks, and moderate popularity, Snapchat is still pushing ahead with its Spectacles, its camera-enabled sunglasses which enable you to film what you’re seeing at any given time. The latest development on this front is “Spectacles 3“, a new generation of the device which will include improved capture capacity, with 3D depth-of-field in captured […]

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