News & Reviews:   Instagram

Instagram is consistently having new updates recently and one of the major update is the removal of the following tab feature that allowed users to spy on their friend’s activities. This feature used to enable users to follow the activities such as liked posts, commented posts, new subscriptions and many more from their friends they followed.

Following the footsteps of Instagram, Facebook will begin hiding likes on users’ posts starting later today. Only the original poster (OP) will only be able to see the number of reactions, views and likes. Us Malaysians don’t have to freak out just yet, though, as the experiment will be taking place in Australia for now.

Facebook has confirmed that they are thinking about testing the waters when it comes to hiding like counts. App researcher Jane Manchung Wong had found the code inside Facebook’s Android app.

Don’t freak out, Instagram is currently hiding Instagram likes for users in Australia as a test. For those of you not following, the number of “likes” for an instagram photo can usually be seen under a photo. Now it is no longer possible for Australian users to see their own and others’ “likes” on photos.

With the reign of social media also reigns the keyboard warriors. If you aren’t familiar with the term, it refers to those who love arguing and posting mean things on the internet. Cyberbullying happens on the online space as well which is why Instagram is stepping up with two new features.

If you were wondering why Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger couldn’t load, here’s why. According to DownDetector, the services were down at around 8PM last night and it seems like the outage was global. 

Back then when you purchase a new Huawei device, it’ll usually come with various apps preinstalled with one of them being Facebook. That’s about to change, as Facebook will no longer allow their applications such as WhatsApp, Instagram as well as their very own Facebook app to come pre-installed in any Huawei and Honor devices.

It appears that Apple has made the first move in shutting down iTunes by closing down their Instagram account, as spotted by a Reddit user. Not only that, all posts on the official iTunes Facebook account has been removed as well.

Based on Twitter user Matt Navarra, Instagram will be shutting down their standalone Direct app most likely by the end of May 2019. But fret not, as all the conversations that took place on the standalone app will migrate over to the Instagram itself.

Netflix has announced that starting today, they have enabled the ability to share the movie titles they are watching directly onto Instagram Story on Android devices. By giving the ability to share directly to Instagram Story, the user could add additional elements onto the story such as a poll, a GIF, or even tag their friends they are watching with.