Instagram is testing a feed that will only display posts from Meta Verified users, according to Instagram head Adam Mosseri. The new toggle will appear under the “Following” and “Favorites” options listed when you click on the Instagram logo in the app. “We’re testing a way for people to explore their Instagram feed and reels…
Instagram is launching a new feature that is designed to better protect users from unwanted images and videos in DMs, the company announced on Thursday. The official launch comes a few weeks after Instagram began testing the feature. With this new feature, people looking to send DM requests to people who don’t follow them will…
Update 25/07/2023 10 AM IST: Instagram is working for users again after being down for more than an hour. While the world is captivated by the drama of Twitter rebranding to X, rival social network Instagram is currently down for many users. People complained that they have been getting errors such as “Couldn’t refresh the…
Meta announced today that it’s rolling out Instagram subscriptions to all eligible creators in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom over the next few weeks. The expansion comes as Meta first launched Instagram subscriptions in the United States in January 2022. Instagram subscriptions allow creators to offer their…
Instagram’s Twitter clone Threads enjoyed a fairly fruitful first week in existence, sailing past 30 million users in the first 24 hours before passing 100 million signups within five days. And just yesterday, numbers from Data.ai indicated that Threads has now hit 150 million downloads. However, another completely unrelated app has been inadvertently thrust into…
Threads, the Meta-owned Twitter clone that launched this week, will always be hindered by its own content guidelines. The app is dry at best, and at worst, leeching your personal data. With 30 million downloads in less than a day of its launch, Threads is poised to compete with Twitter’s sheer volume of users. Though countless…
Instagram’s rumored Twitter competitor just dropped on the iOS App Store in the U.S. The app will be called Threads, and according to App Store data, it’s expected to launch on July 6. It’s a good time for Instagram to enter the fray — this past weekend, as Twitter fumbled the bag with rate-limit errors,…
Two months after announcing that it was beginning to test ads in search results, Instagram said today that it now allows for ads in search results via the Instagram Marketing API. These ads will show up in the feed that people can scroll through when they tap into a post from search results. In March,…
While the future remains uncertain for Twitter, Meta is throwing its hat into the ring to build the next major microblogging platform. This new Meta app is expected to launch this summer, according to an email shared with a select group of creators, and viewed by TechCrunch. This text-based app will stand alone, but it…
Meta is testing a new payout model for its Ads on Reels monetization program that pays creators based on the performance of their public Reels, not the earnings of ads on their Reels, the company announced on Tuesday. The tech giant also announced that it’s expanding the Ads on Reels monetization program on Facebook to…