It’s a strategy that, as annoying as it is, has mostly worked. Inevitably, the features aren’t as good as the original, but that’s not the point. Instagram knows that it only has to make features that are good enough to keep people from wanting to go anywhere else.

When TikTok went off the air (to use a very old-fashioned phrase), there was a scramble to find an alternative to its shortform video feed — and a similar scramble by various social networks to provide that alternative. (In fact, while I was writing this, Tumblr launched its new Tumblr TV feature.) The question is: how successful are they?

Instagram has made changes in recent days that appear to be aimed at attracting TikTok users while the short-video app’s future remains in limbo.

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Users on TikTok are blocking Facebook and Instagram from their accounts, citing concerns that the Meta companies are changing their "For You" pages on the video platform.According to multiple users, their "For You" pages seemed strange after TikTok came back online following its brief dark period earlier this week.

The prank was acted out by TikToker Monte, who went viral for deleting TikTok from random phones. How did he pull it off? He went into a shopping mall and began to flirt with random women.

With TikTok still absent from app stores, Instagram is offering creators $10,000 to $50,000 per month to exclusively post Reels, according to The Information.

The social media influencer, best known as Siyah to her followers, boasted more than 310,000 followers on the platform.

Drawing on that same article by The Verge, Instagram head honcho, Adam Mosseri, was quoted as saying: ““The vast majority of what is uploaded to Instagram today is vertical”. And as even slightly savvy Instagram users know, portrait-orientation imagery tends to garner the most engagement – something that’s irked photographers in the past.

CapCut is a free video-editing platform created, owned and operated by ByteDance. It was launched in the U.S. in 2020. It was the second most downloaded photo and video app in the Apple App Store after Instagram, according to USA Today.

TikToker Siyah died at 17 in a shooting incident. Days before her death, She posted her typical dancing content for an audience of over 220,000 followers.