Instagram launched Instants globally, a disappearing photo feature that borrows heavily from Snapchat and BeReal while ...

The feature lets users share disappearing photos with their Close Friends or mutual followers that can be viewed only once ...

Instagram's ongoing quest to be anything other than itself has a new development. The app is now running internal tests of a feature that will randomly prompt users to take spontaneous selfies — a ...

BeReal takes casual posting to the next level. Founded in 2020 by French entrepreneur Alexis Barreyat, BeReal was made in ...

Gen Z is totally over Instagram’s identity crisis. Earlier this summer, the social media platform’s head honcho, Adam Mosseri, abruptly announced Instagram was “no longer a square photo sharing app” ...

Instants is a new feature —and app — from Instagram that feels eerily similar to Snapchat and BeReal.

A college professor I know was recently on a school trip to Rome. He and his group of students would be out eating dinner together when suddenly the conversation would die down, and the students would ...

Over the years, Facebook has used Instagram to compete with rivals like Snapchat and TikTok by cloning their signature features. Now, a newer, fast-growing service appears to have caught the company’s ...

Instagram unveils a new Instants feature that has a Snapchat-like twist. This feature will let users capture quick, casual ...

In a TikTok-centered world, I’m still a big fan of Instagram. In fact, I even have an account where I mainly post short videos and image carousels of New Age and ambient music cassettes from the ’80s, ...

Big tech's biggest copycat strikes again. After using Reels to turn the main feed into TikTok, Instagram now wants Stories to imitate BeReal. Reading time 2 minutes Meta, big tech’s biggest copycat, ...