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Instagram is a social media service owned by Facebook for sharing photos and videos. Instagram launched in 2010 exclusively as an iOS app and didn’t come to Android and the web until 2012.

Facebook acquired Instagram in April of 2012 for $1 billion. Facebook also offered to buy Instagram’s closest competitor Snapchat back in 2013 for $3 billion.

In June of 2017 Instagram shared that it reached 250M daily users, surpassing its rival Snapchat by almost 100M. It also has over 700M total users.

Instagram has been criticized for taking popular features from Snapchat such as face filters, stories, and stickers. The company also has plans moving forward to introduce more business focused features.

Instagram Close Friends feature provides official alternative to ‘Finstagrams’

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy Nov 30 2018 - 4:02 am PT
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Instagram Close Friends is a new feature that allows users to share their more personal Stories with just a select few friends. The feature has been in testing for almost 18 months, and is rolling out to everyone worldwide today on iOS and Android.

The company appears to be responding to the ‘Finstagram’ trend among teenage users …


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Instagram security lapse exposed some user passwords to the public, company says

Avatar for Chance Miller Nov 17 2018 - 7:53 am PT
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Update: Instagram has issued the following statement to 9to5Mac:

“Temporarily, if someone submitted their login information to use the Instagram ‘Download Your Data’ tool, they were able to see their password information in the URL of the page. This information was not exposed to anyone else, and we have made changes so this no longer happens.”

A flaw in Instagram’s “Download Your Data” tool inadvertently exposed some user passwords, a report from The Information claims. In some instances, user passwords may have been exposed to public view. Instagram is said to have informed affected users via an email.


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Instagram making it easier for businesses to show ads through Stories w/ new ‘Promote’ feature

Avatar for Chance Miller Nov 1 2018 - 7:07 pm PT
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A new report from TechCrunch today says Instagram is testing a new “Promote for Stories” feature will make it easier for businesses and advertisers to target users through Stories. Similar to Facebook’s “Boost” platform, advertisers will be able to target certain users based on a variety of characteristics.


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Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom addresses departure & relationship w/ Facebook in new interview

Avatar for Chance Miller Oct 15 2018 - 6:22 pm PT
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A few weeks back, Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger announced they were leaving Facebook six years after the initial acquisition. At the time, reports suggested a growing rift between Instagram leadership and Mark Zuckerberg, and now Systrom has publicly addressed the relationship for the first time.


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Instagram prototyping feature that would share your detailed location data with Facebook

Avatar for Chance Miller Oct 4 2018 - 6:06 pm PT
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TechCrunch reports today that Facebook is testing a new privacy setting that would share location history from Instagram with Facebook. This news comes on the heels of the Instagram cofounders leaving the company, with Facebook’s former VP of News Feed being named Head of Instagram. The Instagram location sharing is still in the testing phase, but Facebook did not rule out a full launch.


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Instagram co-founders leave Facebook, hint that they will create an all-new app

Avatar for Ben Lovejoy Sep 25 2018 - 4:26 am PT
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Update: Facebook shares have fallen 2% in pre-market trading, which would wipe $11B from the company’s market cap if unchanged by the time the market opens.

Instagram’s two founders, who have continued work on the app since it was acquired by Facebook six years ago, have announced that they are leaving Facebook to work on something new …


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