Have you tried Instagram Stories yet? Instagram’s newest feature – which is similar to Snapchat – allows you to create short videos or a series of multiple photos that disappear after 24 hours. When Instagram introduced Instagram Stories last week everyone went a little bit crazy trying to determine if it would be the end of Snapchat or not. In this post, I walk you through all the details and features showing you how to use Instagram Stories. All You Need to Know About Instagram Stories! A new feature Instagram stories lets you do the following: Create a video Create a picture post Include text Draw with different styles and colors See who has viewed your story Watch stories from those you follow Share a video or pic from your story to your Instagram feed Share a video or pic from your Camera Roll to your Instagram story With Instagram Stories, you...
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Say Hello to Messenger Codes: Find the 900 million people who use Messenger every month more easily thanks to Usernames, Links and Messenger Codes. How to access your Facebook Business Page messenger code Navigate to your page Click on messages Now click download and share your messenger code How to scan a FB Messenger code to add people to your Messenger contacts Ensure you’re using the most up to date version of Facebook Messenger App Open Messenger Click on People Now scan code is your top option Hold your camera on your phone/tablet up to a messenger code Now they’re added to your Messenger contacts How to generate your personal Facebook profile messenger code Ensure you’re using the most up to date version of Facebook Messenger App Open Messenger Click on People Now scan code is your top option At the top, now click on My Code Now either screen...
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Instagram video length will be prolonged from 15 seconds to 60 seconds. This is a fun, flexible and creative way to create and watch video on Instagram. In the last six months, the time people spent watching video increased by more than 40 percent. And longer videos mean more diverse stories from the accounts you love, whether it’s Selena Gomez hanging out with friends or beauty star Bretman Rock’s latest makeup tutorial. Now everybody can tell a story using a video. For iOS, they’re also bringing back the ability to make videos out of multiple clips from your camera roll. To learn more about multi-clip video on iOS, check out this Step-by-Step manual: How do I upload a video with multiple video clips? This feature is currently only available on iOS. You can upload a video with multiple clips from your phone’s library. To upload a video with multiple clips: Tap ....
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Now you can see the exact month, day and year your images and videos were posted on Instagram. Every social media manager I know is doing cartwheels over this update. To see your timestamps, simply go to the App Store and update to the latest version of Instagram. You should have version 7.17.1 or later. Prior to now, Instagram only showed the number of weeks it had been since the videos or photos were posted. Now, instead of “52w” at the top right corner of the post, the full date (4 February or November 25, 2015, for example) is listed under the comments. This is a very valuable update for online marketers and those who work in the marketing industry. When we’re tracking data or pulling information for clients and projects we need to know the exact date then it was posted. Knowing that something happened 52 weeks ago is pretty useless. An exact...
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The Most Social Astronaut Scott Kelly Returns Safely to Earth after One-Year Mission. Scott Kelly landed in Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m. EST (10:26 a.m. March 2, 2016 Kazakhstan time), on a capsule carrying two other companions from the International Space Station: Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, who also spent 340 days in space, and Sergey Volkov, another Russian cosmonaut who has been in space for five and a half months. During this time, Kelly has shared with the public an unprecedented view of what he’s seen while rotating Earth aboard the International Space Station. Before Kelly went up for his mission, the astronaut was given direct order from President Barack Obama during the 2015 State of the Union address: “Make sure to Instagram it.” The result of that order? Kelly soon became an expert social-media user, uploading awesome images of high quality photography nearly every day to Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook. The astronaut...
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As a Social Media Manager, posting to Instagram is part of daily work. Before now, that meant signing out of my personal account in order to sign into the account for work, which is not only inconvenient but also a little anxiety-inducing—the ease with which I might accidentally post to the wrong account is all too scary a possibility. My clients’ 10K followers do not need to see my latest selfie with a new hairstyle. Finally, Instagram is making our social media-addled lives a little bit easier. With the latest update, the app is introducing a new feature that allows users to toggle between multiple accounts without logging in and out. Instagram Now Offers Multiple Account Support Currently, the feature appears to be in beta testing mode and only available to a limited number of Android users. Instagram has not said whether this feature will be expanding, or when it...
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Social media has changed the lives of people around the world. Lets just stop for a moment and look at how different it is from ten or even five years ago. In the last decade, social media has significantly transformed most of our daily lives. Remember using a telephone landline instead of Skype, address book instead of Facebook, business card holder instead of LinkedIn? Social media has changed not only how we interact with one another but also how we do business. Not integrating social media into company’s traditional marketing activities nowadays is like starting a business without telling anyone. Surprisingly, there are still organizations who are not taking full advantage of what social media marketing can do for their brand. Sometimes the social media team is soloed, outsourced, or even non-existent. But the only way to fully harness the power of social media marketing is to put it on...
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Instagram has officially switched on its advertising API (application programming interface). It’s a major move for the Facebook-owned photo-sharing app that will almost immediately help transform it into a major mobile advertising business to rival Google and Twitter. The third-party partners now plugging their software into the API made a coordinated announcement about their involvement on Tuesday morning. By opening up an API to partners, marketers can now — for the first time — start buying Instagram ads and planning their Instagram marketing in a more automated fashion, alongside their other digital ad buys on Facebook or Twitter. Before, buying Instagram ads was an exceptional case in the media plan that required contacting an Instagram sales representative directly. That meant Instagram advertising was mostly limited to those willing to make big investments in both budget and time. Starting soon all advertisers can plan Instagram campaigns alongside their other digital ads...
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Hashtags are a prominent part of Social Media Network today. Hashtag: A word or phrase preceded by a hash mark (#), used within a message to identify a keyword or topic of interest and facilitate a search for it. In fact, the hashtag is so recognized that it was added to the Oxford dictionary in 2010, and the Scrabble Dictionary earlier this year. Hashtags are used to a certain extend on most popular social networks, including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, Vine and Google+. The hashtag is likely the most popular means of categorizing content on social media. It makes your own content discoverable and allows you to find relevant content from other people and businesses. The hashtag also allows you to connect with and engage other social media users based on a common theme or interest. So whenever you add a hashtag to your post, it is immediately indexed by...
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Now, you have done a good job – Social Media Accounts are created, beautiful photos are taken and engaging articles are posted. But who will enjoy it all? Where are your followers? When you have more engagement, you get more exposure, which in turn, gives you the opportunity to get more followers. Let’s get into it. Here are the 7 best tips to get more followers on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or any other Social Media Channel. 1. Share Images People Can Connect & Relate To If you check out the most popular Social Media accounts, you’ll notice a common theme. All of their photos are something we all can relate to and connect with. They’re personal, unique, and original. By sharing these types of photos you’re establishing a connection with your audience, which is the absolute best way to attract people to your account. In short, make sure your account is authentic and...
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