This is actually unfathomable. Fitness blogger, fooTball wife and new mom, Caroline Berg Eriksen, has sent the internet into a frenzy after posting a selfie.
Dan Bilzerian, 32, describes himself a an “actor/astronaut/asshole” to his 100,000 Instagram followers. He’s a professional poker player, and you could pretty much sit motionless on your couch, follow his Instagram updates everyday, and live a very full life vicariously through him.
It seems like those who have opposed the ‘selfie’ in all its forms will have to put their prejudices aside. It’s a thing now. A big thing.
In this week’s installment of “Well, What Did You Expect?” we profile a man named Jack Vale, who people are calling a ‘psychic’ .
We love Instagram because it allows us to explore our inner artist and to find and follow people who share interesting photos. As usual, however, there are those couple of people who take it one (or a hundred) steps too far.
They surveyed teens in 30 countries. After extensive research, they were able to show that the number of teenagers claiming to be active on Facebook had dropped to 56% in the third quarter of 2013, from 76% in the first. And for sites like Facebook, a drop of 20% means millions, billions even. So, where are they going instead?
Instagram just isn’t the fun, family-friendly service that it used to be. The Facebook-owned platform had some problems a few weeks ago when it was found that users were selling guns via the photo-sharing app. Now though, if you wanted to buy a little bit of drugs to go with your guns, you need not even leave the Instagram app – it’s all there.
A while ago we broke the news that Instagram would soon be placing ads in your news feed. Many people were miffed, but many applauded Instagram for allowing users to close the ad once they’ve seen it, and for allowing feedback about how to make ads more aesthetically appealing and personally valuable. The first of what will be a long line of instagram ads appeared on users’ screens last friday, and it was an ad for American designer Michael Kors.
Well, ex step dad, now that Bruce Jenner has divorced Kim Kardashian’s mom, Kris. But that would be way to complicated to explain in a headline. Anyway, the drummer for the Black Keys is a guy by the name of Patrick Carney, and his Instagram account is one of the funniest shrines to plastic surgery […]
Platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Facebook that were developed alongside the smartphone have birthed a new creative class – the phone-tographers. Some phone photography enthusiasts are good, composing neat shots of their family, their pets and their holidays. Some of them, however, should never have been handed anything capable of taking photos. If you fall into the latter group of individuals, you’ll be happy to know that we have a little how-to guide in the form of an infographic called ‘Phone-Tography 101’
Slowly, surely and inevitably, our social media spaces are becoming commercialised. We all knew it was coming – it’s just a matter of coming to terms with it, getting used to the new layout and trying to make the best of it. This time, it’s Instagram’s turn to start earning some cold hard cash.
Woah! Instagram just got serious. No more selfies. No more sunsets – we’re talking guns baby. Instagram has made no official rule outlawing the sale of guns on their platform, so guy buyers or sellers can just scroll away on their smartphones, and they might as well be in Steve Hofmeyr’s basement.
#NoFilter – usually a hashtag that inspires hatred towards the poster (“What, are we supposed to clap because you took a photo and then did nothing with it and then showed it to us?”). In this case though, that simple hashtag was enough to get Kanye West home, immediately.
Cats have been ousted as the most popular animal on social media for the minute, and have been replaced by a 6-month old pig named ‘Jamon’ from São Paulo, Brazil. The pigs owner is a bit of a funny one, often dressing his pig up as a turtle. (What?)
At just over five minutes in length, ‘Take Us To Jozi’ is a short documentary about a handful of Johannesburg Instagramers, and their take on the culture of Instagram in South Africa. The documentary features the likes of @roywrench, @unclescrooch, and @garethpon, who made the documentary.
Former US President George W. Bush is on Instagram. Of course he is. He joined a couple weeks ago and here’s something else you probably didn’t know, he has a cat named Bob.
If you haven’t had lunch yet, don’t read this. It will make you hungry and envious of the people who get to eat the food featured on all of these deliciously delectable looking Instagram accounts. Check out these divine looking pictures of food, and find out how you can follow these photographers on Instagram!
The new Chief Operating Officer of Instagram is Emily White and surprise, surprise, she worked for Google – before moving on to Facebook, before moving on to Facebook’s new acquisition, Instagram. Here’s her plan to sell advertising within the next year.
Here’s how not to deal with a crazy girlfriend: Film the two of you fighting and post it to Vine.
This hotel is decorated with guest-shot Instagram photos and there’s even a space for you to take a selfie when you check in. At the entrance they have a revolving digital mural of Instagram photos and, if you have over 100,000 followers, you get a free night’s stay!
An American Instagrammer has been booted off of the photo sharing service for “violating Instagram’s community guidelines”. Amy Woodruff (the owner of the Daughter of the Sun Instagram account) practises yoga, and lives in a teepee with her family in the wilds of Hawaii Click through for the pic.
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria is on Instagram, and he wants everyone to know what he’s been up to. The shots he’s posted so far show the President and his wife doing charitable work, feeding the hungry, embracing children, and being swarmed by loving crowds.
Spam botnets, such as the infamous ‘Zeus’ that came to light in 2007, have infiltrated Instagram, and are being put to task generating false ‘likes’ and ‘followers’ in order to create media buzz over particular companies or individuals on the platform for eventual financial gain.
The man responsible for Facebook chat, News Feeds and the layout of Facebook as you know it is taking his creative “genius” to Instagram. Star product manager, Peter Deng, has joined Instagram as its first director of product, and sees a lot of the same issues with Instagram that Facebook experienced in 2007.
This Japanese photographer has found a cure for male singletons out there. Who needs a girlfriend when you have your right hand, enjoy Keisuke Jinushi’s selfies.
You may recall that Beyonce’s tresses were caught in a fan while she was performing not so long ago. There’s no word on whether that incident prompted her latest style adjustment.
“They have more money than you and this is what they do.” So obviously there’s a lion on the roof of a Ferrari over there. The Rich Kids Of Instagram tumblog rose to prominence around 18 months ago, and every day since, they have dutifully published real-life Instagrams of young people spending/enjoying money that they did not earn.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been getting up to some interesting things on Instagram. So what is Schmidt getting up to on the photo sharing platform?
Basketball star LeBron “The King” James entertained some of his fans on Instagram on Tuesday with some light rapping. The audio clips have received over 54,000 and 62,000 likes respectively.
While vacationing in the Bahamas, Heidi Klum and family enjoyed some fun in the sun. But it was the Instagram picture that she uploaded of her behind that has grabbed everybody’s attention.