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Instagram’s Looking to Add Screenshot Blocking for Temporary DMs

August 8, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing Add, blocking, DMs, Instagrams, Screenshot, Temporary

Instagram’s looking to provide more assurance for temporary message senders, with a new feature that would block screenshots of temporary DMs. As you can see in this screenshot, pulled from the back-end code of the app by researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram’s looking to implement screenshot blocking for all DMs exchanged in “Vanish Mode”, or when [...]read moreInstagram’s Looking to Add Screenshot Blocking for Temporary DMs

Meta Plans to Allow New Studies into Instagram’s Impact on Teens

July 18, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing Impact, Instagrams, Meta, Plans, studies, teens

After years of accusations about Instagram’s impact on teens, and refutations of the same from Meta, the company is looking to allow researchers to conduct an in-depth study of the platform’s impacts on young users, as part of a new expansion of its restrictive research program. As reported by The Atlantic, Meta’s planning “a small [...]read moreMeta Plans to Allow New Studies into Instagram’s Impact on Teens

Instagram’s Experimenting With Super Likes for Stories

July 17, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing experimenting, Instagrams, likes, stories, Super

Just as Instagram adds an interesting, and original music sharing option for Threads, it’s also seemingly experimenting with another feature that’s been copied from another app. According to a finding in the back-end code of the latest IG app, the platform is working on a “Super Like” option for Stories. As you can see in [...]read moreInstagram’s Experimenting With Super Likes for Stories

Instagram’s Looking to Enable Retrospective Tags for Collaborative Posts

July 12, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing Collaborative, Enable, Instagrams, posts, Retrospective, Tags

Here’s a small but important update from IG regarding a coming functional improvement. Right now, if you want to add a collaborator to your IG posts, you need to do so in the initial creation flow, it’s not possible to add a collaborator in retrospect. Well, you can on Reels, as of recently (check out [...]read moreInstagram’s Looking to Enable Retrospective Tags for Collaborative Posts

Instagram’s Looking to Enable Retrospective Tags for Collaborative Posts

July 12, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing Collaborative, Enable, Instagrams, posts, Retrospective, Tags

Here’s a small but important update from IG regarding a coming functional improvement. Right now, if you want to add a collaborator to your IG posts, you need to do so in the initial creation flow, it’s not possible to add a collaborator in retrospect. Well, you can on Reels, as of recently (check out [...]read moreInstagram’s Looking to Enable Retrospective Tags for Collaborative Posts

Instagram’s Experimenting With Virtual Pets for Stories

June 10, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing experimenting, Instagrams, Pets, stories, virtual

Okay, this sounds a little weird, and a little engagement bait-y. But I can also absolutely see people getting into it. A few months back, reverse engineer extraordinaire Alessandro Paluzzi shared this image of an in-development Instagram sticker called Pals. As you can see, the Pals sticker has an outline of a dog, and assuming [...]read moreInstagram’s Experimenting With Virtual Pets for Stories

Instagram’s Experimenting with Virtual Pets for Stories

June 10, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing experimenting, Instagrams, Pets, stories, virtual

Okay, this sounds a little weird, and a little engagement bait-y. But I can also absolutely see people getting into it. A few months back, reverse engineer extraordinaire Alessandro Paluzzi shared this image of an in-development Instagram sticker called “Pals”. As you can see, the Pals sticker has an outline of a dog, and assuming [...]read moreInstagram’s Experimenting with Virtual Pets for Stories

Instagram’s Could Soon Give Users Optional Access to Experimental Features

May 28, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing access, Experimental, Features, Give, Instagrams, optional, users

Would you be interested in testing our upcoming IG features ahead of time? You may soon have the option, with a new “Early Access” menu item now being tested in the back-end code of the app. As you can see in this screenshot, shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram is working on a new [...]read moreInstagram’s Could Soon Give Users Optional Access to Experimental Features

Instagram’s Experimenting With a New Way to Engage with Trending Memes

May 28, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing Engage, experimenting, Instagrams, Memes, trending

Instagram’s keen to tap into the power of participatory content, as an avenue to get more people posting more often, this time via popular memes, and making them easier to interact with in the app. As you can see in this screenshot example, posted by app researcher Radu Oncescu, Instagram’s working on a new “Memes” [...]read moreInstagram’s Experimenting With a New Way to Engage with Trending Memes

Instagram’s Working on a New’ ‘Peek’ Feature to Encourage Interaction

May 14, 2024 mpsingh No Comments Social media marketing Encourage, feature, Instagrams, Interaction, peek, Working

Just when you thought the BeReal trend was over, Instagram has a plan to reignite it once again. As shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram is developing a new option called “Peek”, which would enable users to share a quick, unedited, unfiltered snap of themselves or their life with friends. As you can see [...]read moreInstagram’s Working on a New’ ‘Peek’ Feature to Encourage Interaction