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Two people were shot live on Instagram and Facebook this week

Each of the tragic shootings happened as friends were live-streaming to their Facebook and Instagram followers, reports USA Today. The first shooting occurred on Sunday in Houston when friends were using Facebook Live to live-stream video of them playing with two guns in a car in a gas station … Read …

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Croxon on Instagram confronting the mental health of its users

Croxon on Instagram confronting the mental health of its users. Bruce Croxon, co-founder of Round 13 Capital, joins BNN for a look at Facebook's subsidiary, Instagram, building a team to address the mental health of its users. One study ranked Instagram the worst social-media platform for young … Read More

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Police: Teen stabbed in fight over Instagram post

Police: Teen stabbed over Instagram post: Trish Hartman reports during Action News Mornings on April 4, 2018. (WPVI). WPVI. By Trish Hartman. Wednesday, April 04, 2018 07:54AM. EAST MT. AIRY (WPVI) –. Police say a teenage girl was stabbed with a knife by another teen in the East Mt. Airy …

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You can now auction your Instagram account as a piece of art, according to one artist

This week, US artist Darren Bader announced that he would be selling his Instagram and Twitter account handles as artwork. He announced the sales through posts on his social media accounts (of course). The accounts with the handles @mined_oud have run in conjunction with Bader's exhibition … Read More

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I can’t stop reading film scripts and this Instagram is to blame

My marker of a fantastic film is when I leave the theater without any clue of the current time of day or what responsibilities I left behind when I walked into the building three hours prior. Lately I've been obsessed with the process of getting to that point—starting with the …

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Instagram is just the latest app to ditch the Apple Watch

Instagram was one of the first social media apps to jump on the Apple Watch bandwagon, and it used to offer features that went above and beyond glorified notifications, like scrolling through your timeline. Now that the Apple Watch is fast enough to really live up to the potential of …

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Darren Bader Is Selling His Instagram and Twitter Handles as Art

Social media influencers can make as much as $10,000 for one sponsored Instagram post. Now, conceptual artist Darren Bader is taking the red-hot market for coveted online content one step further: He's selling an entire Instagram and Twitter account—as art. On Monday, the New York-based artist … Read More

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Instagram limits third-party apps in wake of Facebook scandal

The photo-sharing app surprised third-party developers over the weekend by abruptly curtailing their access to user information — in some cases by as much as 96 percent, according to reports on Tuesday. Third-party apps that help Instagram pages gather and analyze data about their followers could … Read More

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How to take the perfect Instagram photo: Influencer, 19, reveals her secrets for amassing …

She now posts flatlays of products and food staples, as well as daily Instagram Stories involving polls and templates, that are contributing to her rapid gaining of followers. And according to her, gaining thousands of followers is as easy as using all of the 'shareable' features the app has to …

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The weird world of virtual models

British photographer Cameron-James Wilson was responsible for the virtual model, and initially he kept her fraudulent nature under wraps, even replying to messages as her on Instagram. Shudu's account is full of trendy-looking model shoots with a single image purportedly taking several days to create … Read More