Instagram Outage is Telling Users Their Accounts Have Been Suspended
Instagram was down Monday morning, which would normally be bad enough. However, the outage then locked users out with the notification that their accounts had been suspended.
Instagram was down Monday morning, which would normally be bad enough. However, the outage then locked users out with the notification that their accounts had been suspended.
New data has revealed that the majority of creators feel "screwed" by large social media platforms and their algorithms.
Instagram has upgraded features on its app to protect users from abuse and help them block the accounts of trolls on the social media platform.
Graphics editing system Picsart just joined Discord’s app directory, reflecting Discord's further branching out from its bread-and-butter segment, gaming.
Cue the MySpace flashbacks because Instagram is testing a feature that would bring songs to profiles.
Watch out Instagram, TikTok is coming. The wildly popular short video app has announced a new Photo Mode that looks strikingly similar to what's on offer from Meta's photo-sharing app.
What’s old is new again, it seems. Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that lets users... share status updates.
It doesn't look good for Meta as the company is trading at its lowest stock value since 2019, advertisers are dropping spending, and users are leaving its platforms.
Twitter is expanding video support on its platform including a new "immersive" media viewer that looks a lot like Instagram Reels, which of course is just a copy of TikTok.
Instagram appears to be testing a new feature that would cover photos that may contain nudity in Direct Messages and safeguard users from unwanted content exposure.
Gavin Newson, the Governor of California, has signed a bill aimed at protecting minors on social media.
Dries Depoorter has created an artificial intelligence (AI) software that searches public camera feeds against Instagram posts to find the moment that a photo was taken.
Instagram's bet on Reels as a way to take on TikTok isn't paying off well according to internal documents seen by The Wall Street Journal. Reels have less than one-tenth of the engagement of TikTok videos, and that number is falling.
Meta has dissolved the Responsible Innovation Team, an internal group whose job it was to address "potential harms to society" that would be caused by Facebook and its products.
Social media app TikTok is denying reports that it was breached after a hacking group posted images claiming to have gained access to over two billion user database records.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri admits that the company had "gone too far into video" and insists "photographers are all still relevant" on the app.
It’s time that we recognize how much of an impact Gen-Z is having on modern photography culture. Even millennials -- of which I am one -- need to understand that the influence of this young subset of creators is colossal and only going to grow.
Instagram is testing a new feature that will allow users to mute words, phrases, and emojis from captions and hashtags, and another it says will offer an easier way to clean up the Explore tab.
Meta announced today that it will allow users to post their NFTs on Instagram and Facebook from one digital wallet linked to both social networks.
Snapchat is getting real. Or, it’s at least taking a cue from fellow social media company BeReal with its new dual camera feature.
Instagram announced Thursday that it will make its most restrictive content filter the default setting for new users under 16 years old.
Meta is pushing ahead with its goal of ramping up video on its platforms. This week, the company is making it possible for anyone to cross-post Instagram Reels to Facebook.
TikTok has launched a basic artificially intelligent (AI) image generator that users can make custom greenscreens with.
Instagram will be testing full-screen photographs on feeds, which will allow users to post ultra-tall, 9:16 images that match the format for Reels.
The head of Instagram Adam Mosseri appeared to double down on the company's commitment to video in the face of large-scale criticism of recent changes to the app.
Epidemic Sound has sued Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta for storing, curating, reproducing, and distributing its music without authorization to the tune of upwards of 80,000 infractions per day.
Instagram has announced that starting now and rolling out over the next few weeks, anyone will be able to "remix" any public photos on the app and turn them into Reels.
The sunk cost fallacy is elongating photographers’ inevitable painful breakup with Instagram. It is time to stop hoping that Instagram will go back to being the one and only social media marketing tool that photographers need.
A new study has found that Instagram and TikTok make one in three adults feel negative about their finances.
Instagram has added the ability to make purchases from businesses directly through chats. In the same thread, businesses will be able to confirm purchases, create payment requests and collect payment.