Turkey’s communications authority blocked the country’s access to Instagram on Friday, one day after the government slammed the social media platform for removing posts by Turkish users expressing condolences over the killing of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Nutzer in der Türkei können derzeit nicht ohne VPN auf Instagram zugreifen.

Karissa Bell / Engadget:Meta rolls out AI Studio in the US, letting users create and share AI chatbots, and Instagram creators set up chatbots to answer DM questions and story replies  —  Meta is rolling out its AI Studio tools for custom chatbots.  —  The next time you DM a creator on Instagram, you might get a reply from their AI.

Stories zu liken und auf diese per Emoji zu reagieren, ist auf Instagram seit einiger Zeit möglich. Nun hat die Plattform ein Feature ausgerollt, welches es Usern erlaubt, Stories zu kommentieren.

Instagram will now let you pummel your followers with multiple songs in a Reel.In a post on Wednesday, the social media company announced a feature that lets you add up to 20 tracks in one Reel.

Bloomberg:Donald Trump says “I'm for TikTok, because you need competition”, and “if you don't have TikTok, you have Facebook and Instagram” and “that's Zuckerberg”  —  It's late June, and Donald Trump is plotting his next presidency in the gilded offseason isolation of the Mar-a-Lago Club.

Here's how you can align with Instagram's new algorithmic focus.

Das Labeln von per KI erstellten Inhalten auf Social Media ist wichtig, damit die User differenzieren können: Was wurde gänzlich per KI erstellt, was mit der Hilfe von KI und was ohne AI Support?

Wer keine Zeit hat, mit seinen Fans zu interagieren, kann das jetzt eine KI übernehmen lassen.

Die »Berlin Insta Girls« sind auf Instagram derzeit allgegenwärtig. Sie locken mit sexy Fotos, sind aber offensichtlich keine echten Hauptstadt-Influencerinnen, sondern KI-generiert.

Image: TikTokTikTok recently launched a new Instagram-like photo-sharing app called Whee, as spotted by Android Police and APKMirror founder Artem Russakovskii.

In terms of other ranking factors, Mosseri says that Likes and Watch Time also play a part. But “Shares per Impression” is now the most important factor when it comes to reach, on average.

Users are still spending more time watching TikToks. But last year, adult users of FB spent more than HALF their time on the platform watching videos. Adult users of IG are expected to spend about 60% of their time on the platform watching video in 2024.

Average time spent per day by adults using social platforms in 2024
FB: 32 mins
⁠IG: 35 mins
TikTok: 54 mins
Time spent watching Reels is predicted to grow 9.4% this year

Instagram posted, then deleted, a video advising against using certain CTAs .

“More important than watch time or like and comment counts is send rates, [and] generally, I think the rate is more important than the count. So the number of sends per reach, the number of likes per reach, the number of comments per reach. But sends per reach correlate more, in my experience, with overall reach than anything else, because we are looking to help people discover content they want to connect with friends over, and so sends is a great proxy for that sort of connection over creativity.”

Notes, which Instagram originally launched December 2022, provide a simple way to leave an engagement trigger for other users in the app, and have proven particularly popular with younger users.

Kurz vor der Europawahl wird Meta verdächtigt, nicht genug gegen Desinformation zu tun. Die EU-Kommission befürchtet weitere Verstöße gegen den Digital Services Act, etwa erschwerten Datenzugang für Forscher:innen. Auch die Drosselung politischer Inhalte könnte regelwidrig sein.

The new E.U. regulations require Meta to share its E.U. user counts every six months. Based on this, we know that IG had 259 million monthly active users in Europe as of September 2023.