‘Instagramming Strangers’ Food Prank’ Video Leaves You Asking, ‘Earlybird or Sierra Filter?’
“Don’t touch your food! I still need to Instagram it!” Sitting across the table from my best friend at our favorite brunch spot “More Than Waffles,” I couldn’t help but shake my head and drool over the steaming plates of waffles that, at the moment, I was being deprived of for a stupid picture. Damn [...]
Vote For Your MTV Movie Awards Best Hero Nominee Using Instagram
If you want to vote for a Best Hero nominee in this year’s MTV Movie Awards, you can do it through Instagram. For the first time ever, MTV Movie Awards viewers can live vote using the social photo app in addition to voting on Twitter. The MTV Movie Awards will take place at Sony Pictures [...]
Viral ‘Follow Me’ Instagram Features Travel Snaps of Girlfriend Leading The Way
Photographer Murad Osmann’s Instagram account featuring photos of his adventures is taking the world by storm. What makes it stand out from the rest is that his gorgeous girlfriend is literally guiding the way in many of his photos. His series “Follow Me” has gone viral with more than 55,000 followers and 170 photos so [...]
Justin Bieber Passes Lady Gaga To Become #1 Most Followed On Twitter
In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king. In the land of Twitter, the crown now belongs to Justin Bieber. Jesus, how bout that opener? it seems like the tagline for a bad movie. So, yeah, Biebs is now number one in the micro-blogging game, having just surpassed Lady Gaga [...]
Survey Says: Teens And Young Adults Prefer Tumblr Over Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
If you stopped to have a conversation with your teenage sibling, chances are they’d mention some random cat GIF that they found on Tumblr — and a recent survey backs it up. A recent survey by Posterous cofounder Gary Tan of people aged 13-18 and 19-25 revealed some surprising statistics about what social media networks [...]
Instagram Claims That Data Suggesting A 25% User Base Loss Is ‘Inaccurate’
It hasn’t been a happy holiday for Facebook-owned photo site Instagram. After the photo-sharing site unveiled an updated terms of service, which included a new advertising initiative that hinted at selling users’ photos to advertisers, Twitter turned into a veritable Instagram shitstorm. Almost instantly, users hit Twitter armed with the hashtag #BoycottInstagram. Since then, Instagram [...]
Instagram Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After New Terms Of Service
When photo-sharing site Instagram released a new terms of service that suggested the company might sell user’s photos and data to advertisers, things got ugly. Almost instantly, the Facebook-owned company was flooded with angry messages and tweets calling for users to delete their accounts and boycott Instagram. Days later, the site’s co-founder Kevin Systrom wrote [...]
Instagram Reverts To Old Terms Of Service After Disastrous User Response
In the wake of the disastrous response users had towards Instagram’s updated terms of service, the photo-sharing site’s co-founder, Kevin Systrom, is doing some serious backpedaling. Earlier today, Systrom wrote in a blog post, “Because of the feedback we have heard from you, we are reverting this advertising section to the original version that has [...]
Instagram Co-Founder On #BoycottInstagram Movement: ‘Many Users Are confused and Upset’
Remember when I wrote about Instagram updating their Terms of Service to include a section in which users would have to agree to let their metadata and photos be sold to third party advertisers? Then, remember when everyone jumped aboard the #BoycottInstagram bandwagon via Twitter and started, possibly prematurely, deleting their Instagram accounts? Kevin Systrom, [...]
Instagram Users Rush To Delete Accounts As #BoycottInstagram Hits Twitter
Remember that article I wrote a few minutes ago about Instagram’s new terms of service making it okay for the photo-sharing site to sell your metadata and photos to advertisers? Well, surprise surprise, people are pissed about that information. Catching fire as only the internet can, #boycottinstagram has become a way in which disillusioned Instagram [...]
