Before Snapchat made social media about just today, Facebook made it about forever. The 2011 “Timeline” redesign of the profile and keyword search unlocked your past, encouraging you to curate colorful posts about your life’s top moments. That was actually an inspiration for Snapchat, as its CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in its IPO announcement that […]
View More Facebook was never ephemeral, and now its Stories won’t have to beCategory: Instagram Stories
Instagram is reportedly testing a ‘questions’ feature for Stories
Have a burning question for your most loyal Instagram followers? You might soon be able to ask them in your Stories.
Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that would let users ask their followers open-ended questions from within their Stories…
Instagram tests questions in Stories
Instagram has been incredibly busy of late, announcing IGTV, Instagram Lite and a slate of features including Stories Soundtracks. But the Facebook-owned photo sharing service doesn’t show any signs of letting up. Android Police today noted that Instagram is testing a feature that would allow users to post questions to their followers and receive answers. […]
View More Instagram tests questions in StoriesInstagram Stories now lets its 400M users add soundtracks
The right music can make a boring photo or video epic, so Instagram is equipping users with a way to add popular songs to their Stories. TechCrunch had the scoop on the music feature’s prototype in early May, and now it’s launching to iOS and Android users in 51 countries including the U.S. Thanks to […]
View More Instagram Stories now lets its 400M users add soundtracksInstagram celebrates its latest milestone by letting you add music to your Story
Instagram Stories has blown through another big milestone. The nearly two-year-old feature now boasts 400 million daily users, the company announced on Thursday.
To celebrate, the app is adding a feature that’s likely to generate a lot of excit…
Instagram gets group video chat, so we can all waste even more time in its app
Just in case you needed another excuse to spend more time in Instagram, you can now add the photo-sharing service to the list of apps that support group video calls.
Instagram is rolling out its group video chat features starting today, along w…
The only people left in my Snapchat feed are two Snap employees
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Opening Snapchat lately feels like peering into the back of a dark, old wardrobe, and finding nothing but dust.
I still receive the odd enjoyable one-to-one or group Snap, but Snapchat’s desolation shows, badly, in the stories feed.
It’s no secret that Snapchat is losing out to Instagram. Instagram has 1 billion monthly active users, while Snapchat has 191 million. That’s fewer monthly active users than even the amount of stories that Instagram says its users create every day: 300 million.
Those gargantuan numbers are only comprehensible in comparison (where else is 191 million small?) But I can make sense of them on a personal level, too, because my own small social media universe reflects the morbid story that they tell. Read more…
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View More The only people left in my Snapchat feed are two Snap employeesPSA: Those Instagram Story emoji sliders will snitch on your ass
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Here’s a hot tip: If you vote in one of those emoji slider polls your friends may be posting to Instagram Stories — to gauge how cute a dog is, say — your friends will absolutely be notified of your answer.
There is no anonymity here.
Take, for example, a recent emoji slider on my own Instagram Story:
Image: Damon Beres via instagram
Image: Damon Beres via instagram
My friend Rebecca decided this dog was extremely — almost comically — low on the “yas???” scale.
Her defense? “I didn’t know you could see individual responses.”
i didn’t know you could see individual responses 😹😹😹
— rebecca rosenberg (@missrrosenberg) June 8, 2018 Read more…
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View More PSA: Those Instagram Story emoji sliders will snitch on your assInstagram is proof shameless copying pays off
The best way to beat your biggest competitor is to straight-up copy them.
That may go against everything they teach you in business school, but that’s the lesson we can draw from the past two years Instagram has spent relentlessly copying Snapc…
With new shoppable stories, get ready to spend all your money on Instagram
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It was only a matter of time.
On Tuesday, Instagram announced the introduction of shoppable stories. Now, brands can tag their stories with the specific products featured in them. Then, when ‘grammers click on the tag, they can see more information about the product on Instagram, which includes a link to the brand’s website to buy.
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Instagram adds shopping tags directly into Stories
Instagram’s shoppable tags are about to pop up in Stories. The company first started testing the feature back in 2016 with a limited set of 20 partners. Since then it’s been a hit, expanding broadly to regular brand posts in the feed. Starting today, hitting a little shopping bag sticker in a Story will lead […]
View More Instagram adds shopping tags directly into StoriesInstagram update lets you re-share Stories posts from friends — but there’s a catch
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Instagram just added one of its most-requested features to Stories: the ability to re-share a post from friends.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that the feature is limited to posts you’ve been tagged in — you won’t be able to just re-share any Stories posts to your own account.
Still, the feature should be welcome news to Instagram fans who’ve long relied on a various assortment of third-party apps to repurpose other users’ Instagram posts.
Here’s how the new Stories feature works: When a friend tags you in their Story, you’ll get the same notification you’ve gotten in the past, which lets you view the image or video in your Direct inbox. Read more…
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