Tag: "photos"
Instagram Reaches 400 Million Users
Instagram have announced on their blog that the service now has 400 million users around the world, 75% of these being outside the USA. They have also told us they are seeing more users from Europe and Asia sign-up. On a daily basis, around 80 million photos are shared on the social network. We saw […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Launches Private Messaging, Photos & Videos
Instagram have just announced a major update of their application to version 5.0, which now supports sending private messages, photos and videos to your friends. The latest update is flagged Instagram Direct. Kevin Systrom, Co-Founder of Instagram help a press event in Manhattan, New York today where he told reports further details about this latest […]
Read More | ShareSnapchat Hits 400 Million Photo Sends Per Day, 70% Of Users Being Female
Self destructing photo app Snapchat, now sends 400 millions photos and videos per day on behalf of users. This is double the volume of sends from June when around 200 million photos and videos were sent each day. Earlier in the month we say Facebook make an offer of $3 Billion USD to acquire Snapchat, which was […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Now Lets You Tag Friends, Brands And Other People In Your Photos
Instagram has just announced a new update for their iOS and Android apps – allowing users to tag their friends, brands and other people in their photos. When you update to the latest version (v 3.5) you will now see another tab on your profile page where you can see photos in which you have […]
Read More | ShareSnapchat Now Sending 150 Million Messages Per Day
Back in February 2013, Snapchat was sending around 60 million messages per day. This got the attention of social networks all around the world, particularly Facebook, who was rumored to be in talks to acquire Snapchat. That never happened and Facebook launched their own Snapchat rival, Facebook Poke. But that didn’t stop Snapchat, growth is […]
Read More | ShareInstagram Totally Disables Photo Viewing On Twitter
Instagram has just rolled out a change to their Twitter integration which means users no longer can view Instagram photos on Twitter.com at all. When you share an Instagram photo to Twitter, it is now simply a link back to the Instagram.com website. Twitter has recently been making a whole load of changes to limit […]
Read More | ShareBrazilian Filmmaker Creates Short Film From Instagram Photos
We came across this neat video by Brazilian Filmmaker, Fernando Sanches who made a short video entirely from his Instagram photos. This film is called Summer Eleven. This was made in mid 2011 but only recently uploaded to Vimeo. Fernando obviously shot all the photos from his iPhone in locations such as Berlin, Lisbon, and Amsterdam. Pretty remarkable […]
Read More | ShareGoogle+ shoving Instant Upload on us?
Google has rolled out an update to their Google Plus iPhone application, very prominently trying to get users to turn on Instant Upload. What is Instant Upload? Every time you take a photo or video on your phone this will be automatically uploaded to your Google Plus account when you open the Google+ app. Thankfully […]
Read More | ShareTop Five things you don’t want to see on Facebook
Since writing the Phony Facebooking article I have been bombarded with specific examples of what people really don’t want you to share on Facebook. Whilst I’ve already covered Directed Posts, passive aggressive statuses and inappropriate over-sharing. Here are the Top Five social-networking behaviours that make you wish there was a ‘Dislike’ button. 1. Muscle cars as […]
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Facebook – 845 Million Users
We have just reported that Facebook has filed their IPO. According to the SEC filing, Facebook has given us some new stats, which I’ll summarise: Facebook now has 845 million users signed up to the site – on track to 1 billion users this year? 483 million daily active users 2.7 billion Likes and Comments […]
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