Instagram finally lets you send Direct Messages from the web app
The Direct Messaging feature for the web has been in testing for quite a few years now.
We got a few things wrong with IGTV, but long-form storytelling remains its USP: Instagram VP Vishal Shah
At its inaugural Instagram Experience edition, VP of Product, Vishal Shah spoke at length about IGTV, Instagram Threads and other features of Instagram
Instagram working on Threads, a new messaging app for your closest friends
Threads will allow users to automatically share their status, location, battery life and more with friends
Instagram is all-set to pull the plug on its standalone ‘Direct’ app next month
All the conversation from the Direct app will automatically move to Instagram app.
Facebook cathartic 'privacy-focused vision' may hide the company's deeper intensions
Critics say the announcement obscures Facebook's motivations to expand lucrative new services.
Mark Zuckerberg presents his vision for an integrated, privacy-focused platform
Facebook will be consulting with experts as it goes about developing this platform.
Instagram rolls out action buttons for booking tickets, ordering food and making appointments
With Instagram Direct and by adding these buttons to their profile, businesses would help customers connect with the third-party partners from the platform.
Instagram introduces new privacy features for sending photos and videos via its 'Direct' messaging platform
Before this, all images or videos sent on the chat could be replayed once and then they would disappear, just like any media sent on Snapchat.
Instagram begins testing a standalone messaging app called Direct
The move by Instagram is similar to what Facebook did with its private messaging feature back in 2014.
Now "remix and replay" photos from friends on Instagram Direct
Like Instagram Stories, those viewing the post can tap and hold to pause the video. This basically allows those seeing the message to see it properly.
Instagram crosses the 700 mn user milestone, copying Snapchat seems to have really paid off
It's ironic that the rate at which people were signing up for Instagram only shot up after the company started copying features from Snapchat
Instagram is rolling out revamped ‘Direct’; combines it with disappearing messages
In this new update, the company has combined the disappearing Instagram stories sent directly to your contact in the same thread as the inbox conversations.
Why screenshot notification by Instagram is a right step towards user data privacy
Instagram recently announced that it would notify users when other users take the screenshot of any of the images, videos or 'Boomerang's shared by them. Immediately after the announcement social media blazed with reactions and outcries about how this was a wrong move by the company.
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Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter: How many private messaging apps are too many?
Instagram has thrown its hat into the private messaging ring. The photo-sharing application believed that being able to share images and videos to select
Instagram Direct now allows users to send images and videos to friends privately
Private messaging is the new black. Instagram, jumping onto the bandwagon, now brings in Instagram Direct...