Snapchat now lets you @-tag someone in your Story, creating a swipe up “more” option that shows the tagged person’s name, handle, Bitmoji, and an Add button so you can follow them too. The feature could let friends call each other out in Stories, or promote their favorite influencers by making it easy for people to follow them.
Snapchat now confirms to TechCrunch that… Read More
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Instagram has an unlaunched “Portrait” feature hidden inside
Eager to one-up Snapchat, Instagram appears to be preparing to expand its collection of shutter modes beyond options like Boomerang and Superzoom. Buried within Instagram’s Android Application Package (APK) is an icon for a Portrait shutter for the Stories camera. This could potentially let people shoot stylized portraits with bokeh effect-blurred backgrounds or other lighting… Read More
You can now use GIFs on Instagram
Animated GIFs are about to take over Instagram Stories.
The photo-sharing app added support Tuesday for animated GIF stickers to Stories in an update rolling out to Instagram’s iPhone and Android apps.
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Giphy builds transparent GIF library for Instagram Stories
Instagram now lets some users slap background-less GIFs sourced from Giphy onto their Instagram Stories. Rolling out for wider testing with a Giphy-branded design, the new GIF sticker engine could further differentiate Instagram Stories from Snap…
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Instagram is not slowing down in 2018.
After Instagram crushed Snapchat — seriously, pounded the app into the ground — last year with its own disappearing Stories feature, the Facebook-owned app is now secretly testing a new “Type” feature that’ll let users share text-based clips instead of photos or videos.
The Next Web first spotted the feature back in December when it rolled out to a select group of private users in Japan, and now it appears Instagram is testing it on some users in Europe as well.
Mashable reached out Instagram and received the following statement from a company spokesperson: Read more…
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In a betrayal of loyalty signaling poor morale, a massive dump of Snapchat’s usage stats has leaked. The most worrisome is that the number of users posting Stories has shown zero growth, an even worse performance than Snapchat’s total user growth that was sluggish this year. It appears Instagram’s Stories clone has stopped Snapchat’s most monetizable feature dead in… Read More
Instagram tests letting users post Stories directly to WhatsApp
Last October, Facebook extended the usage (and flexibility) of Instagram Stories — the Snapchat-like feature that lets you patch together photos and videos into a slide show — by making it easy to directly post a Story to Facebook. Now Facebook is looking at how to bring WhatsApp into the fold. Read More
Instagram becomes an interest network with hashtag following
Instagram has always been a social network where you follow friends and creators, but today it’s evolving with a new way to follow hashtags so you see top posts and Stories about a topic on your home page. Rather than having to dig this content out of search or the Explore tab, can see the best #Slime videos or #FloralNails tutorials no matter who posts them. Today’s change… Read More
Instagram lets you Archive expired Stories and Highlight favorites on your profile
Instagram is copying Snapchat’s Memories feature and going a step further, letting you create a permanent home to show off formerly ephemeral content. Rolling out globally today on iOS and Android, Instagram Stories will now automatically Archive your Stories to a private part of your profile when they disappear 24 hours after being posted.
You’ll then be able to create Stories… Read More
Your best Instagram Stories can now live on forever in your profile
Your Instagram Stories no longer have to disappear forever after 24 hours.
The app introduced two new features that allow you to save your Stories indefinitely: archiving, for private saving, and “highlights,” a feature that puts Stories right …
Download this: The easiest way to find your Instagram ‘top nine’ of 2017
The end of the year is almost here and that means Instagram is about to, again, be flooded with “top nine” memes.
Luckily, we now have a handy tool to help create the collages we can’t ever seem to get enough of.
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Instagram is testing a bunch of new features, including GIF search for Stories
We may have just gotten an early look at a ton of new Instagram features.
Instagram has been busy testing several new features, including a “close friends” feature, GIF search, and the ability to follow specific hashtags the way you’d follow an accou…