Ever seen an Instagram emoji fail IRL? Maybe your grandma used an eggplant emoji in a… compromising place. Or, your uncle was trying to be funny and added the poop emoji to his bio. Yikes. Whatever the case, emoji etiquette exists. Understanding the meaning and placement of emojis is essential to avoiding terrible, embarrassing communication […]
Responding to messages quickly is a huge part of social media customer service—and it’s no different whether you’re dealing with messages on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, or Instagram. Luckily, Instagram has an easy-to-use option that can cut down on your team’s time responding to questions. With Instagram auto reply, you can easily set auto-responses to common […]
Instagram’s testing another element within its Notes inbox prompts, with some users now able to add a location tag to their Notes queries. As you can see in these example screens, users in the test pool can add a location marker to their note, which will then link through to the IG location page for […]
Instagram’s adding a new way to interact with post replies, while it’s also experimenting with an interactive star-sign based sticker, in order to facilitate more engagement. First off, after experimenting with the feature over the last few months, Instagram has now officially added the capacity to share comments from any public post or Reel to […]
Manan Vastsyayana/AFP Photo via Getty Images AFP via Getty Images Meta makes changes just days before deadline for users to feeds within the EU to ensure compliance with Digital Services Act. By August 25, the company must comply with the DSA. This requires that platforms classified as Very Large Online Platforms give their users the […]
If you’ve been working in digital marketing for a while, you’re no doubt aware of what all the various metrics and acronyms mean for your process. You know your impression versus your engagement data, your CTR from your CTA, you understand MER, ROAS, etc. But if you’re just starting out, that last sentence probably hurt […]
Instagram Threads rocked the internet when it debuted in early July 2023; the Meta-owned alternative to Twitter (recently renamed X) racked up more than 100 million users within hours of its launch. Instagram Threads is a text-based conversation app. You can create posts with up to 500 characters, and add links, photos and videos, too. […]
Music on static posts or profiles feels very MySpace, but maybe there’s a place for it, and maybe, making people listen to some Jack Jones track over your holiday snaps will improve the viewing experience. Instagram seems to think so, as it’s adding another music element, with users now able to add a song that […]
If you’ve seen several messages saying, “@username invites you to join their Broadcast Channel,” you’re me over the past few months since Meta announced the feature in February 2023. What was once a trickle is now a flood as Instagram opened its Broadcast Channels feature to (almost) every user in June 2023. So what’s this […]
This could be interesting. Instagram is experimenting with a new option that would enable users to add their own images and videos to an existing post, facilitating more direct collaborations in the app. As you can see in this example, shared by app researcher Alessandro Paluzzi, when switched on, the new option would enable post […]