FTC v. Meta: in an email, Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting Facebook
meaning show people more ads — as a way to make more money and take some pressure off Facebook — Perhaps not surprisingly, IG's founders left the company a few months after all of this happened in S...
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads is testing custom feeds for certain profiles or topics; the Threads' version seems easier to use than Bluesky's custom feeds
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Herb Scribner / @herb.scribner : This was needed for a long time. Looks like the Bluesky momentum has encouraged Meta to move on this. Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : ...
Q&A with Adam Mosseri on Threads' first year, not leaning into political content, driving engagement, focusing on real-time content, the fediverse, and more
and even Threads is warming to it Leo Grieco / Proactiveinvestors UK : Meta's Threads hits milestone but lags social media giants Sean Tilley / We Distribute : A Beginner's Guide to the Fediverse, for...
Instagram confirms testing an unskippable ad format with a countdown timer that briefly prevents feed scrolling, similar to the free version of YouTube
users are not happy about it Kit Eaton / Inc.com : Unskippable ‘Ad Breaks’ Annoy Instagram Users Abhiman Biswas / MySmartPrice : Instagram Might Soon Show Unskippable Ads to Users as Part of Ad Breaks...
Instagram now lets users edit DMs up to 15 minutes after sending, pin up to three messaging threads to the top of their inbox, and save their favorite stickers
Joining Facebook And WhatsApp Hadlee Simons / Android Authority : Instagram picks up a few much-needed features from WhatsApp BetaNews : Now you can edit Instagram DMs, pin messages and more Tsveta Er...
Memo to staff: Adam Mosseri says Instagram's creator surveys show the app lags behind TikTok and YouTube on the most important creator satisfaction dimensions
The team is “behind where we need to be” on initiatives to help creators make money on the platform but is “upping our urgency and progress.” —IG has also established a new team focused on teen users....
Adam Mosseri says Instagram is pausing work on Instagram Kids, after criticism from parents, experts, regulators, policymakers, and others
Good morning! This Tuesday, Facebook says Instagram isn't bad for teens … Ben Lyons / Gamereactor UK : Development of Instagram Kids has been paused Barbara Ortutay / NBC Bay Area : EXPLAINER: Why Fa...
Profile of Adam Mosseri, who sees Project Daisy, which will eliminate public display of Instagram Likes later this year, as a way to “depressurize the app”
or a team—whose job was to care for users, like an ombudsman/chaplain hybrid, focused less on users' technological experience than on the emotional + psychological. https://www.nytimes.com/... Elana Z...