Instagram’s efforts to one-up Snapchat continue with the addition of animated GIFs in its Stories. Instagram stories now include GIF stickers. Instagram The Facebook-owned social network announced on Tuesday that you’ll now see a GIF option when adding stickers to a photo or video in stories. Powered by GIF library Giphy, you’ll be able to browse GIFs …
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Perfect? Or can you still criticize it? Apple/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET You have no excuse now. Your photo app was once full of questionable photography that even Instagram filters couldn’t save. But now you’ve bought an iPhone X, and every portrait — or, more …
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You no longer need to worry about having to remove your Facebook video of your New Year’s Eve countdown party even if it had Ed Sheeran’s Perfect playing in the background. Facebook has just inked a multiyear, multiterritory licensing deal with Sony/ATV Music that will enable its users to upload and share videos featuring songs from Sony/ATV’s collection of 3 …
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Instagram is feeling generous as Christmas approaches, and it’s rolled out new features as its contribution to the season of giving. Users can now share live videos with their contacts by direct message, it announced in a blog post yesterday. The move comes as Instagram confirmed it will be testing a messaging app called Direct in selected markets earlier this …
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Facebook on Thursday signed a multiyear licensing deal that lets its users post videos containing songs from the world’s biggest record label, Universal Music Group. The agreement works across all of Facebook’s platforms, including its news feeds, Instagram and Oculus, according to a joint press release. “Under this partnership, users will be able to upload videos that contain licensed music and …
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Instagram is giving more power to the hashtag. As of Tuesday, it announced, you can now not only follow people, but hashtags too. There’s some good news and bad news here. Spoiler: it’s mainly bad news. First, the good news. This is quite a nifty feature. I, having completely mainstream hobbies, have been getting really into Japanese pro wrestling recently, …
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One of the main characteristics of Instagram Stories is that the posts disappeared after 24 hours. That gave them an ephemeral, fleeting quality, but if you get as attached to your Stories as I do, that expiration date was a bit of a bummer. The only option was to save them on your phone. Instagram apparently felt my pain and …
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You can save the Instagram Stories into an archive and build a highlights reel from previous Stories, the app announced on its blog Tuesday. Stories, which are collections of personal photos and video, previously expired in 24 hours. With Stories Archive, the app will automatically save your Stories. You can then use the archived Stories to build Stories Highlights in …
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Want to cuddle up with a sloth? Instagram would like to have a word with you about that. The photo-sharing social media site said Monday it will show users pop-up warnings when they use hashtags associated with wildlife tourism. The warning: that snuggly creature could be living a life of misery. “The protection and safety of the natural world are …
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Instagrammers sure do love popstars. And soccer, aka football. Instagram on Wednesday revealed its annual list of most popular accounts, with Selena Gomez at the top for the third year in a row. The singer and actress has 130 million followers, beating fellow singer Ariana Grande by about 15 million. Quickly climbing the ranks is soccer/football star Cristiano Ronaldo, who …
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