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Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures

@instagrambook.bsky.social

A Bluesky account about a book about Instagram, written by Tama Leaver, Tim Highfield and Crystal Abidin, published by the fine folks at Polity Press. Here we try and keep on top of the many, many changes to Instagram as a platform, & its many cultures.

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Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures @instagrambook.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The only time anyone accuses Mark Zuckerberg of having real human emotions is Systrom explaining why Zuck acted like a petulant child after buying Instagram and then starving it of resources for a period of time since it was growing faster than his own Facebook app! www.theverge.com/news/646809/...

Zuckerberg had ‘real human’ emotions about Instagram’s growth.The Meta CEO’s reaction to Instagram’s growth, as Facebook’s growth plateaued, stirred complex feelings in him, Systrom says. “My experience of him is that he was always very happy to have Instagram in the family,” he testifies. “But also, I think as the founder of Facebook, he felt a lot of emotion around which one was better, meaning Instagram or Facebook, and I think there were real human emotional things going on there.”

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Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures @instagrambook.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Meta rolling out the ability for anyone, esp teens, to reset their algorithmic content recommendations is a pretty big deal (and long overdue)! Reshape Your Instagram With a Recommendations Reset about.fb.com/news/2024/11...

Series of image showing how to reset algorithmic recommendations on Instagram.

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Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures @instagrambook.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Instagram’s Moving Your Stories Highlights to Their Own Tab www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagr...

Notification of Stories moving to a tab on Instagram

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