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Here are the best way to use instagram

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If your goal is to move people to action through an Instagram post, you need to learn how to create appealing content that communicates your marketing ideas clearly. That being said, here are the best ways to use Instagram described through the top Instagram tips.

Decide on Your Strategy

An Instagram caption serves to share the message as presented in a video or a photo, but in a short and concise manner that complements the focus of this platform – multimedia. This is why your first step should always be determining what you want to convey with your content.

Learn What Kind of Content Instagrammers Expect of You

Many people think that, in order to create good content for social media, you need to learn how to write better. Writing skills can help, but writing for the Instagram platform requires a very different approach from, say, writing a research paper. For example, if you check this teenage pregnancy essay, you’ll find that it’s created by a highly eloquent writer. But, this type of content isn’t usually used on Instagram. It simply doesn’t share the message in a way that’s expected on behalf of Instagram users.

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How to spot a fake account on instagram

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To spot a fake account, watch for a few telltale signs. For instance, if you notice a user liking a random assortment of your photos or leaving random, generic comments (“great post!”) in rapid succession, there’s a good chance it’s affiliated with a third-party booster and is trying to tempt you into following it back.  At the very least, it’s someone trying to rapidly inflate their follower count — probably not a person you want to follow anyway.

It’s also helpful to look at the profile itself. If the user is following thousands of people but doesn’t have many followers or posts themselves, or if their account appears to have been inactive for a long time, feel free to be suspicious. Of course, there are sneakier bots who do post a lot of content in an attempt to appear real. If you’re not sure, pop a photo or two into a reverse Google image search and see if it’s been lifted from another user — or another website entirely.

And we’ve all seen those super obvious fake accounts. There’s the bot that posts a bunch of stolen photos of different women as if you will not notice they’re not the same person. Then there’s the fake discount account, which promises low prices on luxury items (frequently Ray-Bans) in an attempt to get you to click on a suspicious link.

BY CHLOE BRYAN

See Full Story at mashable.com

Unlinking your instagram account from facebook? It’s not how it works

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Like other platforms shown under the Linked Accounts menu on Instagram, the option to link your Facebook profile is ostensibly disabled by default. Users must tap the app’s grayed out logo and sign in before Instagram displays the two as connected. Once two profiles are connected, an Unlink Account option appears in Instagram settings. Clicking there brings up a warning: “Unlinking makes it harder to get access to your Instagram account if you get locked out.”

Common sense suggests that if you unlink a Facebook account from your Instagram profile, you’ve unlinked that Facebook account from your Instagram profile. But like many things Facebook, common sense does not always apply here. Clicking on Unlink Account does not actually unlink a Facebook account from Instagram, a Facebook spokesperson told WIRED, because it isn’t possible to separate the two. Even if a user never explicitly linked their Facebook and Instagram profiles, they are intrinsically connected—Finstagrams be damned—and will continue to be, regardless of how many times you mash Unlink Account.

See Full Story at www.wired.com

Instagram and WhatsApp will add ‘from Facebook’ to their names

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Just how uncool can Facebook make Instagram and WhatsApp? If exerting more influence over the direction of both apps by installing Facebook executives wasn’t enough, now the social network giant is going to add “Facebook” to their names. Instagram will soon become “Instagram from Facebook” and WhatsApp will turn into “WhatsApp from Facebook.” The company already follows this approach with its Workplace app. The Information first reported the planned changes, which Facebook confirmed directly.

The new titles will appear in the title for both apps in Apple’s App Store and Google Play. On your device’s home screen, the name for each will mercifully remain the same (for now). But it’s also very likely that you’ll see “from Facebook” on the splash screen for both apps. Facebook already made this exact change with Oculus.

By Chris Welch

See Full Story at www.theverge.com

iTunes Facebook, Instagram pages are wiped clean as end draws near

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One might also think that being a Facebook critic, Apple has decided to withdraw from Facebook and Instagram. But not even Apple can really afford to ignore the weight of social networks. The real reason is, of course, the expected demise of iTunes.

It’s rather odd that Apple would choose to delete all Facebook and Instagram posts and take the time to do that. It could have simply deactivated those accounts but perhaps that would have been too much of a confirmation of its plans. Not that anyone didn’t notice anyway.

It isn’t just social networks either. A few astute netizens have reported that some iTunes links for songs and artists now redirect to music.apple.com. Others have also noted that links to specific classes of digital content will soon redirect to specific links per category, from apps to books to movies.

The iTunes brand may have once made sense when it only contained music and even some videos. Using it for things that have little to do with “tunes” makes as much sense as Google using “Play” for books and magazines (which has also confused some to presume the Google Play Store is all about games). Apple is expected to announce iTunes’ retirement at WWDC this month and in its stead will be separate apps and links to break up what once was a single but messy entity.

By JC Torres

See Full Story www.slashgear.com

Instagram appears to be testing stickers with song lyrics

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It looks as though Instagram is testing a new feature for stickers in its Stories feature: music lyrics that play out along with a video.

Jane Manchun Wong spotted the feature back in April, and demonstrated it in a short video on Twitter, showing lyrics from Rick Ashley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up,” alongside the music video.

Instagram brought music to its Stories feature last summer, allowing users to add background music to accompany their posts. Users can add music to the post, and customize it with specific clips for certain pictures or videos. In December, Instagram added some additional musical features, allowing users to respond to questions with songs, along with countdowns and question stickers for live videos.

By Andrew Liptak

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Instagram Tests Hiding Likes On Posts

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Photo by Lisa Fotios from Pexels

Now, Instagram is testing a feature that may tip this logic on its head. Spotted by Jane Manchun Wong last week, the feature hides the number of likes on a post from all others but the person who posted it. A note accompanying the new feature explains “Testing a Change to How You See Likes: We want your followers to focus on what you share, not how many likes your posts get.”

Many users obviously think its a terrible idea, but I actually think it’s a great one, as it combats the social validation that people may be getting from their Likes! Of course, it still gives those who post an idea of their social metrics, but it hides them from everyone else. Also, anyone buying fake engagement will be dead in the water, as the engagement will mean absolutely nothing.

By George Carey-Simos

See Full Story at wersm.com

The Creator of Linux Says Facebook, Twitter, And Instagram Are “a Disease”

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Linus Torvalds, the Linux creator who’s himself known for angry tirades, said that if he could fix one thing about the internet, it would be modern social media — a flame-spitting recrimination by the inventor of the software that keeps much of the social web running.

“I absolutely detest modern media — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram,” Torvalds told Linux Journall in a new interview. “It’s a disease. It seems to encourage bad behavior.”

In particular, Torvalds said he takes issue with how social media is geared to generate as much engagement as possible.

“The whole ‘liking’ and ‘sharing’ model is just garbage. There is no effort and no quality control,” Torvalds said. “In fact, it’s all geared to the reverse of quality control, with lowest common denominator targets, and click-bait, and things designed to generate an emotional response, often one of moral outrage.”

By DAN ROBITZSKI

See Full Story at www.sciencealert.com

Instagram urged to crack down on eating disorder images

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Images promoting potentially life-threatening eating disorders are thriving on Instagram and need to be cracked down on in the same way as graphic self-harm images, leading charities and experts have said.

The social media giant’s focus on removing graphic images of self-harm did not go far enough, they said, and young people also faced being confronted with pro-anorexia images due to little policing on the site.

The Guardian has discovered thousands of hashtags and accounts promoting anorexia, including diaries of weight loss, alarming pictures and comments on goal weights.

These accounts often include a comment saying: “Please don’t report, just block,” to circumvent the website’s approach, which requires people to report content that they find worrying.

The director of external affairs for the eating disorder charity Beat said content promoting anorexia and bulimia was prevalent online. “So-called pro-ana and pro-mia content is widespread on social media and can be very harmful for people suffering from an eating disorder,” Tom Quinn said. “People will not develop an eating disorder by being exposed to images that glamorise eating disorders, but research shows that such content helps perpetuate the illnesses for people who are already suffering.

By Sarah Marsh

See Full Story at www.theguardian.com

How Comments Became the Best Part of Instagram

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For years, comments on Instagram were secondary to the photo and video posts that make up the app’s main feed. But recently, Instagram comment sections have begun to eclipse the photos they sit below.

Over the past year and a half, the Instagram account @commentsbycelebs has ballooned to nearly 1 million followers by documenting celebrities’ most notable Instagram comments. It has spawned a network of copycat comment accounts, many of which have thousands of followers. Part of the rise in comment culture on Instagram is due to product changes made by the platform. In August 2017, Instagram added threaded comments, making it easier for people to have coherent conversations. And in the spring of 2018, the company instituted an algorithm that surfaced noteworthy comments from celebrities, athletes, influencers, and verified accounts.

By TAYLOR LORENZ

See Full Story at www.theatlantic.com