In the photograph, Gretchen Altman is smiling, leaning back casually, a cup of coffee in hand — Hills Bros. Coffee, to be precise. It looks like a candid shot, but if you hit like, leave a comment, and tag a friend, you can get three different blends of brew, for free.

Given the terrible run of form it’s been on over the last year, it probably shouldn’t be that surprising that Facebook waited until the highly anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election to deliver some bad news. While just about every reporter was poring over the document, Facebook updated a blog post from March indicating that passwords had been exposed, stored as readable text (as opposed to securely encrypted), for hundreds of millions of Facebook users and thousands of Instagram users.

Do you use Instagram online or the app? Tricks to perfect your Instagram profile, Instagram profile picture, Instagram content, & how to make money.

‘Kidfluencers’ are earning millions on social media, but who owns that money?

Unique animals get a lot of attention on social media, and the latest example is a savvy chimpanzee intentionally browsing Instagram on iPhone

Coachella photos have been all over Instagram lately, and 19-year-old Byron Denton set out to prove that not everything you see on social media is exactly what it seems. The London-based YouTuber previously fooled the internet by faking a rich lifestyle on Instagram, and he recently set his sights on faking a weekend at Coachella.

Instagram said it will be testing out a new idea in Canada, in which it will remove the total number of

Don’t believe everything you see on the ‘gram.

Would we feel less envious, shameful and competitive if Instagram didn’t tell us how many Likes a post received? That’s the idea behind Instagram now hiding Like counts from both a post’s viewers as part of an experiment in Canada.

Social media is a place to post everlasting memories, but according to experts, selfies have become quite dangerous and are causing deaths across the world.

Facebook on Thursday announced that it is removing accounts for Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, InfoWars, Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer from both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook had originally pulled some content from Alex Jones, including four pages, in August. Despite the so-called ban, Alex Jones’ InfoWars was quickly back online with a page titled “Infowars is Back” and a livestream where Alex Jones is talking about how he has been banned.

Instagram will begin hiding search results for hashtags that consistently return false information about vaccines, the company said today. Starting today, the company will effectively begin blocking access to hashtags that return misinformation designed to dissuade people from getting vaccinated. Instagram made the announcement at an event for press in San Francisco on Thursday.

Instagram will block hashtags spreading "verifiably false" information about vaccinations. The social network already blocks hashtags that are themselves false claims, such as #vaccinescauseautism.

A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to look inside.

A guide to the chefs, bakers, writers, farmers, and food photographers who are creating uncommonly appetizing photos and videos.

Given its insane growth & mega-revenue prospects, Instagram’s investor valuation today could have been $10+B.

Meet two of the most popular (not to mention adorable) dogs on Instagram – Harlow (he’s the big one) and Indi (the little one). They have over 100,000 users following their photo feed and really is it any wonder when they constantly post gorgeous photos and videos like these? If only more people would photograph their pets, rather than the food they just ate – the world would be a much better place wouldn’t it?

New technology is shaking things up in style photography. Philippa Warr speaks to legendary photographer Nick Knight about the radical shifts taking place.

Popular photo sharing app Instagram is expanding its functionality with the launch of a new direct messaging platform today. The new feature, called Instagram Direct, will allow people to send private photos to a maximum of 15 users.

Bilzerian’s photos get deleted often, he tells me. He sounds mournful. “I had some super-hot chicks in Cabo naked in the pool. The shot was blurry. You could see some butt crack, I guess.” Thanks to Instagram, he’ll never be able to prove it. There’s the good life, and then there’s the Dan Bilzerian life.

Instagram recently have renewed its headquarters in San Francisco, after which the doors were wide open to the public, which all look forward to consider where it maintains one of the most popular mobile applications...

If there are any Social media site has grown up very fast then that is Instagram. Yeah!! Instagram Is the fastest Growing Social Media sites which has over 150 Million active users from around the world. Instagram Play an important role on Business Improvement. Nowadays There are most of Business...

Foo Fighters have said that the sessions for their new album are "fucking on". The band posted a picture of a row of master tapes labelled 'Foo Fighters LP 8' to their official Instagram account earlier this week. The photo was accompanied by the caption "It's Fucking ON".

Do you hear that? The once sweet chirping of taps on the keyboard is now the blaring, magnified buzz of awards season. On Sunday evening pop stars, fans, and Beyonce worshipers unite for the musical explosion people anticipate annually. Who better to be fueling that build up than the GRAMMYs themselves? 

Even though you can’t help but get a little irritated when a stranger asks you to take time from your lonely night drinking at a bar by yourself just to take a picture of her fun night with her best friends, it’s inexplicably just as irritating when that same person doesn’t ask you to take the photo and instead takes it herself. It’s a lose-lose situation — a selfie is inherently annoying, but a stranger taking time out of your night is also irritating.

Daniel Arnold takes photographs worth buying. His Instagram and Tumblr accounts show mesmerizing, unsettling snapshots of New York life, like “Humans of New York” took a drive through Uncanny Valley. They’re remarkable. But up until this week, Arnold considered himself between professions. As his bank account dwindled, he tried to stave off the unemployment ennui by walking around the city and snapping photos.

“I will haunt you day and night after I'm dead.” That's the last message jojostai1012 ever posted for her ex-boyfriend on Instagram. Shortly after that message, the young woman from Shanghai made a pile of some of her possesions and lit them on fire. Then, she opened her window and dangled her feet above a rooftop several stories below, which she photographed and posted to Instagram. What exactly happened next isn't clear.

Ex-NBA star Shaquille O'Neal has apologized to a Detroit man with a rare disorder for making fun of his appearance in an online post. Best known as Shaq, the former professional basketball player announced the apology in a Twitter message Tuesday. "Made a new friend today when I called and apologized to Jahmel Binion.

Looking at every meal, snowflake, and sunset through a sepia-toned screen is nice, sure, but you're going to run out of battery at some point. Now, thanks to Adidas, you'll never have to spend another Kelvin-free minute again—just look down.

A self-styled "rich kid of Instagram" who boasted on social media about driving expensive cars has seen four vehicles he used, worth more than £500,000 ($850,000), destroyed in arson attacks in just one week.

Don't look for Adam Richman's new Travel Channel show "Man Finds Food" anytime soon. As Richman deals with a social media backlash, the Travel Channel has put the series on hold.

Instagram can make almost anyone look like a decent photographer. But what are the odds of actually turning your filtered photos into a paycheck? It’s difficult—but not impossible. While there’s no direct purchase button on the site, a number of individuals have found success in a way that looks almost effortless.

Trading selfies for skyscrapers.

Verge video director Christian Mazza is an active Instagram user with 571 followers, posting as @mazza. But recently he discovered something weird: a copycat Instagram account, @eastlaine, that looked exactly like him. The account's avatar was Mazza's face, copied from his real account. Its first photo was a shot of Verge editor David Pierce, also copied from Mazza's real account. It even had the same exact caption: "Early calls with @piercedavid and @joplinger #bts."