If you’re worried that a stalker is going to show up at your door after tracking you through your Instagram posts — take a deep breath. It’s probably not going to happen. Earlier this week, a popular message began circulating around Instagram via stories and grid posts from both casual users and big brands. The…
Instagram’s ongoing quest to be anything other than itself has a new development. The app is now running internal tests of a feature that will randomly prompt users to take spontaneous selfies — a function that sounds a lot like social media photo app BeReal. Spotted by developer and notable leaker Alessandro Paluzzi, Instagram’s new…
At an event somewhere 12,000 feet above sea level, Tanzanian officials proclaimed to the world Tuesday that high-speed internet on Africa’s highest mountain would now be available to all. Yes Kilimanjaro, the fourth highest mountain in the world, will now be the premiere destination for climbers looking to document their climb in real-time on social…
An arm that looks weirdly long. Buggy eyes that peer up at the camera. Legs for days. Tiny bodies. This is a new type of selfie, the 0.5 one, that doesn’t take itself too seriously. If the 0.5 selfie was a person, it would be the friend who is always on hand to lighten the…
Nefarious actors have long weaponized systems put in place to protect creators’ original work. When filing fake copyright takedowns, these parties have the power to claim, monetize, or remove content that they have no rights to. YouTubers, musicians, digital artists – they’re all quite familiar with content ID strikes, copyright infringement notices, and other similar…
Last year, I received an Instagram DM from someone I was friends with in college. It had been a couple years since we’d caught up: We lived in different cities, had pursued different careers and, of course, the pandemic had brought any plans of hanging out again to a standstill. I was surprised to see…
In the song “Last Kiss” off of her 2010 album Speak Now, Taylor Swift sings “I ran off the plane, that July 9th.” Nowadays, Swift likely finds herself running off the plane every other day of the year as well. A recent study by the sustainability marketing agency Yard looked into the usage of private planes…
Elon Musk seems confused by what people do during the summer. On July 30, 2022, Musk logged on to Twitter dot com with an important observation. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) “Interaction with almost all twitter accounts seem to be much lower in recent weeks & days,” Musk tweeted. “Accurate?”…
YouTube Shorts, the company’s short-form video TikTok competitor, has proven to be a big success for the platform. But YouTube is still synonymous with its longer content and its well known long-form content creators. To help remedy this, the platform is releasing a brand-new tool to help YouTubers pull 60-second clips from their existing long-form…
A decade ago, not long after the decline of Ashton Kutcher’s supremacy on Twitter, in the days when the @horse_ebooks account was making the concept of “Weird Twitter” mainstream, an enigmatic character quietly surfaced. Tweet may have been deleted (opens in a new tab) But there’s much more to this guy than coffee, and if…