Instagram rolling out new likes feature for Stories
Washington: Social networking platform Instagram has launched a new feature, Private Story Likes, which will let users like somebody’s Insta Story without sending them a DM. Previously, responses sent to someone on a Story, whether an emoji or a full-on message, showed up as a response in their DM inbox. However, now with this new […]
Instagram commences testing new feature that reminds users to take break
Washington: Photo and video-sharing social networking platform Instagram’s head Mr Adam Mosseri has announced that the company has started testing a new feature called ‘Take a Break’. According to GSM Arena, this feature will help users curb their Instagram addiction and encourage them to take a break after spending a certain amount of time on […]
Instagram now allows users to co-author posts, share likes
Washington: Photo and video-sharing social networking platform Instagram has kicked off a week of product reveals with the announcement of Collabs, a new feature that lets two users jointly share ownership of a single feed post or Reel. According to The Verge, tomorrow, it will follow this up by testing a new way to add […]
Instagram seeks to curb mental harm to teenagers
San Francisco: Instagram on Tuesday defended itself against a report that the social network harms the mental health of young girls, saying it plans to play down posts promoting myths about beautiful bodies. Instagram head of public policy Karina Newton pushed back against a Wall Street Journal report that cited Facebook research as showing its […]
Instagram announces new features to protect users from online abuse
Washington: Popular photo and video sharing service Instagram has announced a new set of features, particularly for celebrities and high-profile creators, which will ensure that users are protected from abuse on the platform. According to Mashable, these features include the ability for people to limit comments and DM (direct message) requests during spikes of increased […]
Instagram to make accounts for users under 16 private by default
Washington: Instagram has rolled out a few new features to make the application safer for everyone, especially minors. Users below the age of 16 (18 in some countries) will now have private accounts by default. For the unversed, only approved followers can see posts and like or comment under private accounts. In a blog post […]
Instagram increases time duration of Reels
Washington: After seeing an increase in people’s interest in making Reels on Instagram, the social media application has now announced that users can create 60 seconds videos on Reels. According to TechCrunch, the recent update also adds functionality for a captions sticker on Reels, which transcribes audio to text. Also, the caption sticker is currently […]
Instagram’s new sensitivity filter is censoring its users work
Washington: Users of social media giant- Instagram have expressed concern with the platform’s new sensitive content filter as the feature is blocking their posts. As per The Verge, while posting on both the feed and in Stories, account holders have been warning their followers that the setting is limiting their reach and that their followers […]
Instagram may launch ‘Exclusive Stories’ feature
Washington: Similar to Twitter’s ‘Super Follows’, photo-sharing platform Instagram is working on a feature that would let creators offer exclusive stories to their followers. As per Mashable, Twitter recently rolled out a feature ‘Super Follows’ which allows users with a certain number of followers to provide offer exclusive content for a fee, similar to YouTube’s […]
Bois locker room: HC asks Google, Facebook, Twitter whether content can be removed
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Tuesday sought response of the Centre on a plea seeking directions to it to ensure social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram remove illegal groups such as ‘Bois Locker Room’, “for the safety and security of children” in cyberspace. A bench of Justices Rajiv Sahai Endlaw and Sangita Dhingra […]