Instagram has been testing a one-to-many broadcast feature called Channels, but now it’s rolling out globally.
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Instagram boss talks rankings, Feed, Reels and Stories
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has updated the company’s public explanation of how its recommendation algorithms work.
Meta has laid off Instagram’s director of music partnerships
Meta held its latest round of layoffs this week, and one of the company’s prominent music executives was among those leaving the company.
Leak: Instagram’s plans for a text-based Twitter competitor
Instagram is preparing to launch a new ‘text-based’ app that could compete directly with Twitter, according to a leaked presentation.
Instagram now allows up to five “links in bio”
Instagram has been famously restrictive when allowing users to post links to external websites: only one link was allowed, and that was only possible in your bio at the top […]
YouTube, Meta, Twitter and Spotify (sort of) reveal their EU user figures
Last week we reported on TikTok’s announcement that it now has 150 million monthly active users (MAUs) in Europe.
Instagram is adding messaging-based ‘broadcast channels’
Is Instagram about photos, or videos, or messaging? The obvious answer: all three, and that third prong is getting a big new feature.
Irish regulator slaps Meta with €390m of privacy fines
Yesterday was an expensive day indeed for Meta, hit by €390m of fines from Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC).
Instagram adds text notes and BeReal-inspired Candid Stories
The march of progress in social media continues: and by ‘progress’ we mean ‘all the apps getting ever-more similar as they copy one another’s features’.
Instagram’s takedown of a drill music video has been overturned
Earlier this year, Instagram took down a music video featuring a track called ‘Secrets Not Safe’ by British drill artist Chinx (OS).
Meta to lay off more than 11,000 staff – 13% of its headcount
Facebook and Instagram’s parent company Meta has announced plans to lay off 11,000 of its staff – around 13% of its workforce.
Meta reveals Instagram NFT plans and latest creator features
Instagram has been dabbling with NFTs for a few months now: in May it started testing a feature for a limited amount of people to share NFTs that they had made or bought.