Category: Instagram
Instagram is rolling out live video in its photo app, and hopes to lure users away from traditionally televised events. “Live is really exciting for us. I think it can enhance what we’re doing,” Kevin Systrom CEO of Instagram said. “ To strengthen relationships with someone I love, those streaming video to me live would…
Instagram has more than 300 million people using it at least once a day. The service was bought by Facebook in 2012 for about £677m ($1bn) and has not stopped growing ever since. According to Facebook, an average of 95million photos and videos are posted each day and Co-founder Kevin Systrom said its success was…
Researchers from the University of California – Los Angeles, revealed after a study observed activation in the brain’s reward regions when teenagers saw their photos with a large number of likes. The same brain circuits that are activated by eating chocolate and winning money are activated when teenagers see large numbers of “likes” on their…
Facebook and Instagram has announced that it is banning the users from advertising and selling privately firearms on its social network. The rule targeting people trading guns to one another on both social network following concerns that they were being used as a way to get around background checks. The latest development follows a string…
The adage “A picture is worth a thousand words” refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with images is proving to be true in the world of social media. Instagram is now bigger than Twitter (which has only 304million active users), after their monthly users increased by 100 million in the last nine…