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Instagram reenables GIF sharing after GIPHY promises no more racism

A racial slur GIF slipped into GIPHY's sticker library earlier this month, prompting Instagram and Snapchat to drop their GIPHY integrations. Now Instagram is reactivating after GIPHY confirmed its reviewed its GIF library four times and will preemptively review any new GIFs it adds. Snapchat said it had … Read More

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Instagram brings GIFs back to Stories with stricter moderation

Instagram was very quick to remove GIFs from Stories after it was discovered that Giphy — the company responsible for overseeing the GIF library — had let a racist image slip through. (Snapchat also removed GIFs as a result of the incident.) But now the ability to add GIFs to …

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Instagram restores Giphy stickers now that racist GIFs are gone

Instagram and Snapchat completely removed Giphy stickers from their apps after finding racist GIFs, but the feature is now ready to come back… on Instagram, that is. The photo-centric social network has restored stickers after Giphy said it "made specific changes to our [moderation] process" to prevent a … Read More

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Who Are Pizza Boys? Kendall & Kylie Jenner’s New Instagram Photos Will Make You Curious

Kendall and Kylie Jenner are up to something. The two seem to have created an Instagram account called "Pizza Boys." It was just created on Wednesday, March 28, and the account already has nearly 50K followers thanks to Kendall Jenner's post about it on her Instagram story. So who are …

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Instagram makes Stories advertising easier with automatic full-screen support

Over the years, Instagram has grown to be much more than just 1:1 aspect ratio content. The evolution moved from square to landscape and portrait content, and now full screen Stories. This has put a burden on Instagram advertisers. Multiple creatives were needed to run ads across different formats… Read …

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Looking to live-stream? Here’s how to go live on Instagram

It's been just over a year since Instagram gave us the ability to go live, but it already seems like an integral part of the social media platform. Similar to streaming on Facebook or Twitter, going live on Instagram is a great way to connect with followers in real time …

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Dezeen and Instagram seek founding contributors for new @design account

Selected founding contributors will be asked to create one Instagram story consisting of around 10 slides, which will be shared on the @design and @dezeen Instagram accounts and on Dezeen. They will also receive VIP tickets for a panel discussion in Milan tied to the launch of the @design account. …

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This is how Instagram ranks the viewer order on your Insta story

Whether there is a motive behind it or not, you don't upload an Instagram story without checking back to see who's viewed it every half an hour. It's literally impossible to let 24 hours pass and your story expire without religiously reopening the app to see if the guy you're …

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How companies are adapting brand packaging for the Instagram age

For brands looking to market a product, successful design presence on the social-media network, which boasts 800 million active monthly users, with 500 million active daily, can be transformational. But traditional shelf appeal doesn't always translate to Instagram. The social-media network, and others … Read More

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Ali Abbas Zafar’s Instagram account hacked

"Hack alert, someone hacked my Instagram account, sorting it out also I am not on Snapchat, so if someone uses Snapchat under my name is the hacker. Have a good day," Zafar tweeted. "Tiger Zinda Hai" was the director's latest release. His next venture, "Bharat", starring Salman Khan, is schedule …