Instagram has also worked to prevent Threads users from spamming tags (which are essentially hashtags) with their posts by limiting each post to just one tag. “The hope is this design focuses tags more on communities and less on engagement hacking,” Mosseri said at the time.

Instagram is one of the most popular social media apps on the planet, and it just moved forward with a change that will allow users a new way to engage with content on the app. Throughout its existence,

While Instagram can support larger files by toggling on “Upload at highest quality” in the settings, most reels playback at 1080x1920 pixels. That may be fine for a small smartphone screen, but it feels a bit diminutive for a TV screen.

After YouTube, TikTok and other short-form video specialists have drawn viewers in the living room, Instagram is launching an app on Amazon Fire TV.

For now, the Instagram for TV app will work only in the U.S. and only on “select” Fire TV devices, including the Fire TV Stick HD, Fire TV Stick 4K Plus, Fire TV Stick 4K Max (1st and 2nd generations), Fire TV 2-Series, Fire TV 4-Series, and Fire TV Omni QLED Series.

A Scottish couple whose teenage son took his own life after being blackmailed on Instagram are suing the platform's owner Meta, in what's thought to be the first UK case of its kind. Murray Dowey, from Dunblane, was 16 when he became a victim of sextortion in December 2023.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is facing new heat over claims that teenage Instagram users will be protected from online harm by a PG-13 rating system – with New Mexico attorney general Raul Torrez