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Maximise Your Valentines Day Social Media Message

Love it or loathe it, Valentines Day is another opportunity for you to maximise your social media marketing with a heartfelt promotional message. What does Valentines Day mean to you? It could just be another day of the year. Or maybe it’s an opportunity for you to secure yourself a

Social Media News Roundup: January ’17 Week 3

A week is a long time in the digital age. Here’s our roundup of some of the biggest social media news stories of the past seven days Instagram live lands in the UK Instagram users in the UK, Germany, France, Brazil and Canada are now able to make use of

Instagram Live Video & Ephemeral Direct Messaging

As one half of a two-part major update, Instagram live video capabilities have begun rolling out with an ephemeral twist on Stories to users globally. The new feature comes alongside yet another Snapchat-esque addition that allows users to send disappearing photos and videos as direct messages. The announcement of Instagram

Live Video is Coming to Instagram

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has confirmed that live video will be coming to the social network. Although there is no indication yet as to when these features will arrive, reports have suggested that live broadcasts will appear within users’ Stories carousels. At the beginning of the year many were citing

Instagram Tests New Instant Shopping Feature

Instagram have started to test new features which could allow users to instantly purchase their favourite products direct from the social network. Ready to roll out on US iOS devices in the next week, the test will involve adding a ‘Shop Now’ call to action button on product posts by

Instagram Introduces Mental Health Support Tools

Social media has really helped open up opportunities for identification of depression and mental illness, and offers significant potential for prevention. Now Instagram have joined parent company Facebook on their task to do their part in helping individuals who might be struggling. Instagram have introduced a new tool that helps

Instagram Adds “Save Draft” Feature

This week Instagram unveiled yet another feature intended to both improve the core components of the social network and enhance accessibility for users. The photo-based social networking app now allows users to save a draft of their photo edits so that they can return to them later… Very recently Instagram

Instagram Adds Zoom Function to Photos

Until now, when Instagram users posted a photo they could do so with expectations of a torrent of likes from parents desperately trying in vain to zoom in. This week that all changed as the photo-sharing network released an update to its iOS app (which is currently also being rolled
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The AI that can Spot Markers of Depression in Instagram Photos

A team of researchers from Harvard and the University of Vermont have developed an AI program which can identify clinical depression in Instagram users at an accuracy rate of 70 percent- just by looking at their posts. The new machine learning program was reportedly applied to monitor and analyse the

Hyperlapse: Using Time Lapse Videos to Build your Instagram

Over the past year Instagram has made some serious inroads as a market-leader in social networking. Their significant re-brand back in April took a great deal of people by surprise and was met with widespread criticism, but since then it seems those naysayers have been all but silenced by developments