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Happy 15th Birthday Facebook! A timeline of the highs and lows
Facebook has had a roller-coaster ride of highs and lows in its 15-year history, with big acquisitions among its good days and data scandals amid the bad. Here is a rundown of the social network’s most notable moments: The launch Facebook first launched on February 4, 2004 as a social network known as TheFacebook, initially…
Instagram confirms fix after going offline
Instagram has confirmed it has fixed an issue which took parts of the photo-sharing network offline for around two hours early on Tuesday. The Facebook-owned social network said it had “fully resolved” the issue which it said had earlier caused the app to be down “for some users”. Users had earlier taken to other social…
Facebook ‘willing to change everything’ to tackle suicide posts, says Sir Nick Clegg
Facebook is willing to “change everything” to curb posts about suicide following the death of British teenager Molly Russell, according to Sir Nick Clegg. The former Liberal Democrat deputy prime minister, now Facebook’s head of global affairs, said social media platforms have a “profound responsibility” to safeguard teenagers. Speaking in an interview with the BBC,…
Social media firms must ‘purge’ harmful content, warns Health Secretary
Social media firms need to “purge” the internet of harmful content that promotes self-harm and suicide, the Health Secretary has said. Matt Hancock delivered the message after the father of a teenager who took her own life said Instagram “helped kill my daughter”. The minister has written to a number of internet giants following the death of…
Facebook working to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger chat apps
The potential move could see Facebook users message contacts who use WhatsApp (Niall Carson/PA) Facebook is planning to integrate parts of WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger, as part of a huge technical operation across the social network’s collection of messaging apps. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned giant says the effort was under consideration…
Egg pic overtakes Kylie Jenner to become most liked Instagram post ever
A picture of an egg has become the most liked post ever on Instagram, toppling reality star Kylie Jenner in the process. The image, the only post on the account world_record_egg, shows a single egg on a plain white background. It has amassed more than 25 million likes since being uploaded on January 4 (you…
Instagram’s Horizontal Scrolling is pulled after instant protest
Instagram has pulled a new way for users to scroll through their feed horizontally after it accidentally rolled out the test to a wider number of people than it had intended. Users of the popular photo sharing app noticed that a new option allowing people to tap on the left or right side of their…
Instagram adds voice messaging to Instagram Direct
Instagram has added the ability to send voice messages to its Instagram Direct feature, the chat section of the Facebook-owned app. Users will be able to tap a microphone icon to record and send audio messages to their friends within conversations in Instagram Direct. It will be the first time audio-only communications have been available…
ibis hotels in Switzerland offer Instagram ‘sitters’ to post your holiday photos
Hotel chain ibis has launched a new service that offers guests “social media sitters” to post holiday photos on their behalf. The service has been introduced at 16 hotels in Geneva and Zurich in Switzerland, and offers guests the chance to hire a local Instagram celebrity to take and upload photos for on their behalf.…
Instagram Stories adds Close Friends feature
Instagram users can now post Stories to a chosen close friends as part of an update to the social media app. The platform has introduced Close Friends, a new customisable list of friends which users can choose to share Instagram Stories with, instead of posting to all their followers at once. Instagram says it provides…
