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Make It Stop: Facebook Intros $12/Month Account Verification

Tim February 20, 2023 28

Fancy yourself a creator or influencer and afraid someone may try to impersonate you? Have I got the next great subscription service for your life: Meta Verified, a $12/month service that will verify your accounts across the Meta-owned platforms and ensure...

Instagram Now Has Broadcast Channels, Exclusive to Creators

Tim February 16, 2023 3

Telegram has a feature called channels that allows users to create rooms and share one-way information with a group of people. It's not a chat room, as only the creator of the room can post things. Everyone else can only view content and react to it. This week...

New Quiet Mode is an ‘Out of Office’ Reply but for Instagram

Tim January 19, 2023

Instagram introduced new features for its platform this week, mainly something called Quiet Mode, but also new ways to manage what Instagram recommends to you. As my headline perfectly explains, the new Quiet Mode is essentially an Out of Office response that...

Android’s New Photo Picker Magically Starts Working With a Bunch of Apps

Kellen December 16, 2022 9

The new Photo Picker that was first introduced with Android 13 as a more-secure and (hopefully) more consistent way to choose media you share within apps, is rolling out more widely this week. A change on the back-end from Google has apparently made the new...

Instagram Tests Two Much-Needed Ways to Better Customize Your Feed

Kellen August 30, 2022 3

Cleaning up your Instagram feed can seem like a never-ending task, even if you are constantly flagging images or videos as "not interested." All it takes is one wrong tap or curious peek and everything is a mess again. Today, Instagram announced two new ways...

You Can Now Reply to DMs While Still Scrolling on Instagram

Tim March 31, 2022 2

Instagram announced a suite of new messaging features this week, including the ability to reply to messages you receive without having to leave your feed. Rolling out in various markets across the globe, Instagram has three new features for user-to-user...

Instagram’s Chronological Feed is Back and the World is Beginning to Heal

Tim March 23, 2022 19

Instagram announced today that the chronological feed is back! It's not called chronological, there's technically two new feed options called Favorites and Following, but both feeds show accounts you follow and appear in chronological order. Let's f'ing gooo!...

Instagram Previews Feed Changes, and Yup, Chronological Order is Back

Tim January 6, 2022 8

Instagram took to... *checks notes* Twitter(?!) to showcase its upcoming changes for the Feed. After having previewed the changes myself via this video, we can confirm that chronological order is making its grand debut. Instagram is actually splitting the Feed...