Instagram brings its popular face filters to live video sharing
In an update today to the social media service, Instagram is making its popular face filters available to users when sharing live video.
Instagram bringing Stories feature to the web, introduces ‘weather-inspired’ face filters
Instagram today is announcing two new features for its social media platform as its Stories feature becomes available on the web and it brings new weather-inspired face filters to its app.
A bot can use your Instagram feed to tell whether you’re clinically depressed
It seems there’s not much AI can’t do these days. Whether it’s drive a car, improve music discovery, retouch photos or narrate the world to blind people. And now machine learning can even look through your Instagram feed to decide whether you are clinically depressed …
Instagram users are spending more time in the app after it copied Snapchat Stories
It’s been a whole year since Instagram rolled out its Snapchat-cloned Stories feature that lets users share ephemeral photos and videos on the service, and today Instagram has shared new data on Stories changing user engagement.
Earlier this summer Instagram shared that its Stories feature has 250 million users. Now Instagram says Stories has also helped increase the amount of time users spend in the app.
Instagram introduces photo and video replies for Stories
Instagram for Android is today adding new functionality to its Stories feature that will allow users to reply with photos and videos. Head below to learn how to use the new feature.
Instagram Stories now at 250M users & adds Live Video replays, will expand to other services
After deciding to clone Snapchat’s Stories feature and roll it out to Instagram last August, today the company offered an update on progress, confirming the feature now has 250 million daily active users. That’s up from the 200 million it announced back in April when it officially surpassed Snapchat. In comparison, Snapchat was at around 166 million daily active users as of its last announced numbers in May.
Instagram asks celebrities nicely to label sponsored posts; hints it will ask less nicely later
Instagram is asking celebrities and others with significant numbers of followers to use a new ‘Paid partnership’ label to identify sponsored posts.
Instagram updates Explore with new location and hashtag stories
Instagram’s Explore tab already features search and discovery for finding new photos and videos on the service, and now the social network is introducing new location and hashtag stories.
The new location stories will appear when you’re near that current location and other Instagram users are posting with the format and tagging location. Hashtag stories will appear from search results and include stories that use specific hashtag stickers.
Instagram now has Snapchat-style AR face filters too
Instagram is rolling out a new Snapchat-like AR feature today called face filters. These work with both the photo and video camera to apply real-time face-tracking filters over subjects.
Instagram touts 700 million users, 100 million added since December
Instagram has become quite competitive lately with new features that take on Snapchat directly, and now the social network has shared that it has 700 million users which is a new milestone. Instagram made the announcement in a blog post this morning:
Instagram now supports an offline mode, available now on Android, ‘exploring’ iOS version
Most of us can get online all day, every day, but from time to time our travels can lead to some spotty internet connections or circumstances with no connection at all. Today at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Instagram has announced a new feature that helps to combat that.
Instagram now lets you organize saved posts in private collections
Instagram today announced a new feature for saving posts, allowing you to store them into folders called private collections. You can create multiple collections, meaning you can use the feature to organize posts you might want to reference at a later date. You’ll be prompted to create a new collection when saving a post:
Instagram now combines disappearing photos & video w/ Direct messages to streamline conversations
An update to Instagram coming today aims to improve the service’s Direct messaging feature by combining disappearing photos and videos with text conversations into a single thread. Previously the features were separated, with disappearing photos and videos in their own conversation separate from text chats, meaning that you could have multiple threads going with the same person(s) within Direct.
Today’s update hopes to streamline your inbox within Direct by making the disappearing photos and videos appear inline within text conversations when it’s the same contact(s):
Instagram for Android adds support for downloading live videos to your device
Instagram today has announced a new update for its iOS and Android apps. The update comes not long after the social network added support for geostickers to its Stories feature. Today’s update, however, relates to live video and adds support for downloading live videos once the broadcast has ended…
Instagram updates Stories feature with support for Snapchat-like geostickers
As it continues to play catch up to Snapchat, Instagram today updated its Stories feature with support for geostickers, a capability that Snapchat has supported for a while now and is arguably one of its most unique features.
At this point, Instagram’s geofilters aren’t nearly as widespread as Snapchat’s, but presumably that will change as time progresses…
Instagram introducing new carousel-style albums for photo and video posts
Instagram is rolling out a new post format that lets you publish multiple photos and videos in a single entry on the social network. Posts were previously limited to single photos or videos with the exception of Stories which are ephemeral.
Latest Instagram beta brings photo gallery support to some, but it’s not fully functional
A common advertisement type on Instagram is a post that features more than one image, something that regular users are not able to do. While regular users can, of course, stick images together, this feature is one that allows you to swipe side-to-side to see separate photographs within a single post.
It appears, however, that this feature will soon rollout to the public…
Instagram enhances Story features with stickers, holiday content, hands-free mode, and save story option
In a recent flurry of Instagram updates, today the team announced even more new features coming out for Stories today. Rolling out now as a part of version 10.3, Instagram has added stickers, limited time holiday content, and one-tap video recording.
Instagram adds bookmark feature, to privately save posts for later viewing
Instagram has rolled out an update to its Android, iOS, and Windows apps today to allow you to bookmark posts for later viewing.
Instagram’s live video begins rolling out to everyone in the US today
Following their original announcement, Instagram has begun rolling out live video to all their US users. To commemorate the occasion Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Instagram’s CEO and CTO respectively are live streaming the event over at the official Instagram account. Instagram’s live video feature is another way the company is hoping to promote sharing freely and in the moment.
PSA: Android just got its own Instagram account
You’re used to following friends and brands on Instagram, as well as celebrities and other important people. So why not your favorite operating system? Apparently, Google thought so too…
Latest Instagram update allows you to save drafts of your posts
Instagram has been testing a feature that would all users to save drafts of their posts but with the rollout of version 9.4, this ability is now available for everybody. What this means is that you can prepare a photo for publishing but hold off on sharing it with the world until you are ready.
Instagram’s long overdue photo zoom feature is already rolling out to some Android users
Instagram is a great platform, but sometimes it’s the little things that really take away from the experience. With a photo-centric service, you’d think Instagram would cover all of the basics, but the app, regardless of platform, has never supported zooming in on photos. Just a couple days ago Instagram announced that zoom functionality was finally available for iOS users, but it seems that it’s already showing up for some Android users.
Instagram copying Snapchat’s ephemeral sharing ‘Stories’ feature right down to the name
Facebook has been trying to recreate Snapchat’s success on its own ever since it tried and failed to buy the social app, and the latest feature it has developed for Instagram is no different. Instagram today unveiled Stories, a new photo and video sharing feature that borrows from the Snapchat-created feature right down to the name. Unlike traditional Instagram posts, Instagram Stories are more ephemeral and disappear 24 hours after being posted…